PAIR OF WOOD BOXES
1909 - 1916Two identical copper wood boxes with black leatherette upholstered seats on their hinged lids, which lift to access the firewood stored in the boxes. The boxes would have been placed on either side of the hearth (ie the area in front of an open fireplace, usually tiled so that it is not flammable).
The boxes were first used in Subiaco. William James Cowell and his wife nee Gertrude Emily Trythall were the first occupants of a workers cottage at 30 Salisbury Street. The wood boxes were purchased for this house and moved with the family when they shifted to a property in Red Hill and then onto East Wanneroo, where they were used in a farm in the area until the 1960s. They were offered to the Wanneroo Museum but the curator offered them to the Subiaco Museum after learning of their provenance.
30 Salisbury Street is first listed with Cowell as an owner in 1909 and by 1916 there is a new owner in the Street Directories.
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Used in an early Subiaco house
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