Badges & Passes
Lot 3858 Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle C Badges & Passes
Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $240
KISMET THEATRES LD DRUMMOYNE PASS, in 9ct gold (8.9g; 24x34mm), with suspension ring and loop, by E.S(ansome), handcrafted with voided central monogram initials 'KT Ltd'. Reverse inscribed, 'No 4. A.Howie Esq.'. Uncirculated and rare.
Kismet Theatre Pty Ltd was a theatre and entertainment company established in Sydney in 1921 by the pastoralist, entrepreneur and theatre producer, Sir Rupert Turner Havelock Clarke. The main order of business was the building of theatres, establishing the Kismet (later Odeon) Theatre in Randwick and the Kismet Theatre in Drummoyne. The Drummoyne theatre grand opening was held on 12 September 1921. The theatre was taken over by Odeon Theatres in 1947.
Archibald Howie was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 12 May 1879. He arrived in Sydney as an infant on the Clyde on 23 June 1881. He was an early resident of Balmain and the many positions he held included Chairman of Howie, Moffat & Co Ltd, builders and contractors, following his father's death in 1923; 1927 President of the Master Builders' Association of New South Wales; 1920s Director, later Chairman, of the Port Jackson & Manly Steam Ship Co; from 1938 to 1940, served two terms as President of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce; 1939 Chairman of the Advisory Panel for Defence Works; President of the Federal Council of the Australian Jersey Herd Society for five years; member of the New South Wales Club and the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron; City of Sydney Alderman 1934-41 and Mayor 1936-37.
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