Lot 606

Description

Jam Factory, Melbourne, OK Workers brass check passes (41mm), No's 301-350, holed at top for placement on a wooden board with cup hooks (L.485mm x H.345mm); together with sample die strikings and numeral varieties, including one rare aluminium piece, in a three ring binder. Good - very fine. (total 70 check pieces)

Henry Jones was born in Hobart in 1862. From age 13 he worked in George Peacock's jam making business pasting labels on cans. He attended Hobart Night School and by age 24 he was made factory manager. After running into financial difficulties Peacock's son Earnest, together with Henry Jones and Achalen Palfreyman took over the business. Under the new directorship the firm expanded throughout Australia and to Melbourne where the Australian Jam Company's factory was built. The company was involved in jam and preserve making as well as hop production, export and shipping, timber and farming. Henry Jones was knighted in 1919 and died in 1926. Palfreyman took over the jam making side of the business at the Melbourne headquarters until his death in 1965. By the 1970s the factory was looking old and tired. It was decided to build a shopping centre on the site using as much as possible of the existing buildings.

With 8 pages of research.