Lot 503

Description

Gympie A.M.&P. (Agricultural, Mining & Pastoral) Society Show, 1899, prize fob handcrafted in silver (29x31mm), by W E Fraser, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed, 'Awarded/to/V.H.Tozer./for/Walking horse'; another identical, reverse inscribed, 'Awarded/to/V.H.Tozer./for/Ores/in all their varietys'; G.A.M.P. (Gympie Agricultural, Mining & Pastoral) Society Show, 1900, prize fob handcrafted in silver (27.5x33mm), no maker, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed, 'Awarded/V.H.Tozer Esq/for Hack/up to 12 Stone'; another identical, reverse inscribed, 'Awarded/V.H.Tozer Esq/for/Pair Hackneys'. All toned, otherwise very fine. (4)

Vivian Hoyles Tozer was born at Gympie on 27 May 1870, the son of Horace Tozer, the Queensland Legislative Assembly member for Wide Bay. During his lifetime he was involved in the Wide Bay Light Horse Regiment, was a solicitor and also represented Gympie in the Queensland Legislative Assembly as a member of the Country and Progressive National Party from 11 May 1929 to 11 May 1935. He donated the land on which the Gympie State High School stands. He died on 5 September 1954 in Gympie and was buried at the Gympie Cemetery.