GOLDFIELDS 509 EARLY GOLD MINER: The Australian Freehold Gold Mine, certificate for 5 shares, £1 paid, 1852, no.924, scrollwork left, black with heavy blue underprint, fine and scarce. Dated February 1852, only a matter of months after the first commercial quantities of gold were discovered in Victoria. $300–400 510 Rare Australian goldfields Chinese household shrine, cedar and glass, Castlemaine, Victoria, mid 19th century 39cm high, 26cm wide, 22cm deep $600–1,000 511 EUREKA STOCKADE: 40th Regiment of Foot shako hat badge (Albert pattern). The 40th were part of the Government forces that attacked the miners at the EUREKA Stockade Ballarat in 1854. Rare and in very good condition 11.5cm PROVENANCE Private collection Ballarat $3,000–4,000 512 HOTHAM, Lieutenant-Governor Sir Charles, and James TARLETON. Copies of correspondence respecting American Citizens who were supposed to have participated in the late riots at Ballaarat. [PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA, Melbourne: Government Printer, 7 March 1855]. Foolscap folio, single leaf. Official record of the exchange between James Tarleton, U.S. Consul to Australia and Lieutenant Governor Sir Charles Hotham, laying the blame for the Eureka Stockade. Tarleton asserts in his first letter that ‘the prime movers were Scotchmen’ and later flatly denies any American citizens were involved (‘I have every confidence that my countrymen throughout this colony will keep themselves in the proper position’). In the final letter here printed, Hotham regretfully informs the US consul that the leader of the insurgents ‘is a young American’. $150–200 ❖ 513 A set of Chinese pocket gold scales, mid 19th century 26cm long $200–400 514 Bell & Slack tin match vesta with matches circa 1851; together with two other matchbox holders 5.5cm high $250–350 ❖ 515 A dynamite box, stained pine and iron with rope handles; together with a cedar detonator box, 19th century dynamite box 28cm high, 43cm wide, 21cm deep $200–300 ❖ 511 509 513 510 80