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TEASPOON - PIONEER WORLD ARMADALE WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Overview

Metal tea spoon with oval end to the handle with colour oval enamel insert with text and image on it. Makers mark stamped on the back of the shaft of the tea spoon handle. Insert has a tan colour that is darker at the bottom and becomes lighter towards the top. Image of a single axle cart pulled by a single horse with a male figure sitting at the front of the cart holding reins. Text under cart [PIONEER WORLD / ARMADALE / WESTERN AUSTRALIA].

Historical information

Purchased in the mid to late 1980s by Alf and Dorathy Cassely during a visit to Pioneer Village with their family. Was later kept at their family home in Seville Grove.
Pioneer Village opened on a four hectare paddock, behind the Narrogin Inn, that included a disused quarry on 5 April 1980. The venture was inspired by Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, Victoria. The tourism venture was built by George Doukidis of Taku Pty Ltd and included around 30 stores, a mock gold mine, a school, police station, theatre, blacksmith and restaurant. The site soon won a number of Western Australian tourism awards but was also facing financial trouble.
In October 1982 the site and the Narrogin Inn was sold to Chanel Seven TVW Enterprises for $1.75 million. In 1985 the sites name was changed to Pioneer World. The site operated for a few more years but in the early 1990s many of the buildings were sold to the Pioneer Village School who converted a large part of the site classrooms and the quarry into a sports oval.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-33-COA2022.8
Material
Metal
Width
25 mm
Height or length
117 mm
Inscriptions and markings

makers mark [SONIC AUSTRALIA]

Keywords
Pioneer Village
Australia
Pioneer Village
CASSERLEY Dorathy Mrs
SONIC PRODUCT
Armadale
Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection that represents the commercial history of the City of Armadale. It represents the many different businesses that have operated in the local area and how those businesses have evolved over time. Businesses play an important role within a community, they provide wanted and needed goods and services, employment, income and opportunities to the local community. They can also operate as important social connectors, places where people gathered and engaged with other members of the community.

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