Lot 3136

Description

Golden Belt Quartz Mining Company, Homeward Bound Reef Raspberry Creek, undated, uniface crude strike in bronze (39mm); another similar but for The Mount Gipps Silver Mining Company Limited, Silverton, uniface in bronze (37mm); Alcan Kurri Kurri Works, 500,000 tonnes, 1981, in aluminium (48mm); PGH Ceramics Division, Doonside, NSW, recognition token, 1965, in bronze (34mm), unnamed; another identical but in oxidised silvered bronze with suspension ring and chain for use as keyring; small gilt name plate for Ross Mining N.L.; also, The Timken Roller Bearing Company, 1,000,000th Timken Heavy-Duty "AP" Railroad Roller Bearing produced in Columbus Ohio, 1963, in bronze (75mm). Fine - extremely fine. (7)

The Victoria or Homeward Bound Reef on Raspberry Creek was one of the earliest reefs worked on the Gaffney's Creek field in Victoria from 1860.