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Shire of Toodyay > Records

HORSE HAIR FLY SWAT

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c. 1900

Subcollections

Domestic equipment

Overview

Long fly swat made from light coloured horse hair with a wooden handle.
Two sections of wooden handle are bound by string. A carved crisscross pattern is 54 cms down handle & is 1.5 cms wide. Lined markings to top of handle.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.521

Contextual information

Date estimation speculative, assumed it was used as a functional object and made by a local person prior to commercial fly swatters becoming readily available in rural Western Australia around the early 1900s.

Place made

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Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Last modified

Friday, 11 September, 2026

Completeness

72

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