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Overview

Small cup conical in shape with the larger diameter at the top and a waisted section near the middle and a curved handle attached to one side. Red, green and yellow floral pattern on the outside with a green scroll around the lip edge. Pattern repeated in the bowl but is faded with the bowl cracked.

Historical information

Item belonged to Mrs Cecily Lindsey (nee Clifton), wife of Samuel Lindsey, who as a child lived at Australind. Cecily was born in 1886 and married Samuel in 1913. She passed away in 1967.

Samuel Thomas Lindsey was born in Swaffhelm England in 1885 and died in Armadale in 1963. He became an ordained priest in 1911, serving in many different locations including St. Albans Highgate (1910-1912), St. George's Cathedral (1912-1915), St. Mary's West Perth (1915-1917), Brookton (1917-1920), Kellerberrin (1920-1921), Gingin (1921-1925), Armadale (1925-1935), Maylands (1936-1947) and Leederville (1947-1949). He retired in 1949 to live in Armadale, but volunteered his time to the Church of England Armadale. This saucer would have been a decorative item in his Armadale home.

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Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2005.4A

Item type

Toys

Statement of significance

This is part of a collection of items used by Samuel and Cecily Lindsey in the mid 1900s. Samuel was an Anglican priest who worked at a variety of ministries across Western Australia including St Matthew's Church in Armadale between c1925 and 1935. The Lindsey family would have lived at the nearby Rectory building located on Prospect Road. Following Samuel's retirement in 1949 he and Cecily moved back to Armadale where they lived until the mid 1960s.

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Thursday, 1 October, 2026

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