b'1663 70Antique gold scales, brass and cedar,GOLD MINING:1881 10/- Share engraved CLASS B. to weigh 2lb,Certificate (#849) for United Ajax Gold 19th century, Mining Co operating out of Campbells 48cm high, 51cm wide, 25cm deep Creek; also 1926 consecutive run of $300500 four share certificates (#5783-86) for the South Lucknow Gold Mining 64 Company, each certificate for 100 shares at 3/6d per share. (5 items)Set of gold scales mounted on timber$100200 box with set of 6 Dram weights, 4 shim weights and 2 lozenge weights, mid 19th century. 33cm high,7123cm wide, 12cm deep. INTERNATIONAL MINING & PROVENANCE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, Private collection Ballarat COOLGARDIE, WESTERN $200400AUSTRALIA, 1899.Silk commemorative Opening Ceremony program with an image of 65 the Exhibition building and the opening Map of the Mines of Ballaarat bydate (March 21, 1899) on the front, the J.E. Harper, 1866; linen backed, withinternal pages providing details for the wooden rollers top and bottom. arrival of the Governor, members of 105 x 66cm. the W.A. Government, Invited Guests, $200400Season Ticket Holders, etc., as well as details of the Ceremony.26 x 44cm (opened out).66 Some water staining, but extremely AVERY bankers gold scales with set ofscarce; we have located only 8 bell weights, 19th century, one other example.68cm high (9) PROVENANCE$400600Sir Ernest Henry Wreford(1866-1938), thence, by family 67 descent. Wreford was manager An antique Australian pack saddle,of the Coolgardie branch of the used on the goldfields of centralNational Bank of Australasia from Victoria, 19th century, 1896 to 1906.It was nothing but desert in 1892. PROVENANCE Seven years later Coolgardie was the Private collection Ballarat third-largest town in Western Australia. $250350Shops lined the extraordinarily wide main street, there were seven 68 newspapers, six banks and two An antique oil lamp with figural silverstock exchanges, schools, theatres, plated base, Duplex black buttonchurches, a synagogue and a mosque double burner, original glass font andfor the Afghan cameleers who kept shade, inscribed on the base the 5000-or-so inhabitants supplied Presented To W. Letcher Esq. Bywith goods and much of their water. His Colleagues Of The Literary StaffTwo cemeteries held over a thousand And By The Commercial Staff Of Theunderground residents, while three Ballarat Courier, Dec. 1901. breweries and twenty-six hotels slaked 74cm high the prodigious thirst of the miners. In 1896 the railway arrived and just a few $600800 years later the mother of the Western Australian goldfields hosted a World 69 Fair. [Graham Seal, The World Fair in An antique pocket barometer in case,the Desert.]pocket sovereign scales and The$5001,000 Laurel, Ladies Boudoir Safety Razor, 19th century 72the barometer 5cm diameter, (3 items) Five opal bivalve mussel fossils, $300400Australian opal fields, Coober Pedy,the largest 4cm long$200300 68'