Lot 695
Sale 111 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals, Tokens & Banknotes (40th Anniversary Sale)
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Description
Australian colonial scrimshaw bullock horn, undated, with end caps intact and thus scarce, engraved with two large Celtic designs and inscribed to, JAMES FOWLER with a Maltese cross separating the names. Very fine piece of Australian colonial history.
Believed to belong to James Mackinnon Fowler, born in Scotland to James Fowler and Mary Mackinnon in 1865 and migrated to Australia in 1891. He prospected in Victoria and Western Australia and helped found the Victorian Socialist League. Later he settled in Perth in 1898 where he entered politics winning the seat of Perth in the first Commonwealth elections and held it until 1922. The Celtic designs featured on the horn tie in with his Scottish heritage. The horn was acquired in 1980 from the sale of an estate in Western Australia.
- Estimate
- $1,000
- Result Status
- Passed in