Lot 1598

Sale 89 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, The W.G. & L.M. Wright Collection

Description

Masonic handcrafted fob, in gold (11.8gms, 25mm) c1910, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed "Electrical Dept/Frigorifico Montevideo/H.F. Tranbarger/to/E.R. Ransom". Very fine.

The Frigorifico is a meat processing plant in Montevideo, Uruguay referred to in days gone by as the "worlds kitchen". Ransom was an Australian engineer who went there to work for a year in the early part of last century. The Frigorifico was so large that a branch of the Masons apparently operated within the works.

Estimate
$250
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$120

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