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Overview

White small cloth with decorative faggoting 1.3cm in from the edge and then again 2.5cm in. The pattern of the faggoting forms a square in the corners. There is also a square central pattern.
Names have been embroidered in red cotton in a circular manner.
Names on cloth are: AE Dempster, John JM Gage, Geoff Maxwell, Vernon Hamersley, Allen Locke [possibly Lochee], Wilfred M Snook, W Harold Watson, Loise L Shenton, W? Bellanger, Geo? Morrison, OG Allanson-Waring, AS Bartlett, AE Jolly, GB Rossi, B Lukiss, K [H?] C Jeston, Edward Brown, WB?, Freda Lefroy, Marion Hamersley, Dorothy Watkins, Nancy House?, Marion Lefroy, Helena Parker, Mary G Cherry [Chitty?], KP Taylor, Florence Wittenoom, Preston Hamersley, Frederic[s] Amorcus?, JA Laycon, Jessie McNae, Grace Andrews, S Bartlett, Percy Hamersley, Picti Logi?
The stitching of some signatures is worn.

Historical information

Originally donated to the Albany Museum by the Dempster family. Noticed by a travelling curator and donated to Toodyay as being more appropriate. Names to be recorded, more follow up needed.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2000.46

Item type

Objects

Material

Linen

Statement of significance

AE Dempster, John JM Gage, Geoff Maxwell, Vernon Hamersley, Allen Locke [possibly Lochee], Wilfred M Snook, W Harold Watson, Loise L Shenton, W? Bellanger, Geo? Morrison, OG Allanson-Waring, AS Bartlett, AE Jolly, GB Rossi, B Lukiss, K [H?] C Jeston, Edward Brown, WB?, Freda Lefroy, Marion Hamersley, Dorothy Watkins, Nancy House?, Marion Lefroy, Helena Parker, Mary G Cherry [Chitty?], KP Taylor, Florence Wittenoom, Preston Hamersley, Frederic[s] Amorcus?, JA Laycon, Jessie McNae, Grace Andrews, S Bartlett, Percy Hamersley, Picti Logi?

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

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