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Overview

The fork has a dotted design around the handle, a dragon on the handle and a signature 'EB' in an oval. A cross design with tulip on the front of the fork. The prongs are well worn with the same cross tulip design on the fork itself. The back has a dotted design also around the handle and has EPNS with the cross tulip design on handle and oval.

Historical information

Jan Hinloopen owned the Kelmscott Museum of Western Australian History, locally known as the "Shanty Town Museum" from 1964 to 1988. The private museum had a wide collection of material from the past and created numerous sets/dioramas relating to the past including miners' camps, the old bank, the old shop, a mine and a bushrangers' camp. When his daughter took over, the place was allowed to run into disrepair and was eventually fire bombed, believed to be over a drug debt. It was also lived in by squatters and vandalised. The new owner, Craig Wales, purchased the property in 2013 and found the trivet in an old shed.
For more info see Sig. File. KELMSCOTT MUSEUM OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA HISTORY.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2015.7

Material

Silver

Width

20 mm

Height or length

165 mm

Inscriptions and markings

EPNS

Keywords

HINLOOPEN Jan

Gillwell Avenue, Kelmscott

Kelmscott Museum of Western Australian History

Kelmscott

Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection that is associated with the role tourism has played within the economic development of the City of Armadale. Tourism started in the district with the arrival of the railway line in the 1890s with special trains operated for visitors from Perth to view and collect windflowers in the hills above Kelmscott and Armadale.

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