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Artcraft Light Buoy

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Overview

Yellow plastic floating light buoy with plexiglass lamp and a yellow plastic covered metal handle. There is a moulded plastic ring extruding from base of the light buoy which would have been used to attach the light buoy to an anchoring point.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2020.928

Item type

Themes

Material

Reinforced Plastic

Width

20 cm

Height or length

40 cm

Inscriptions and markings

On the widest part of the Light Buoy body appears the following

Artcraft
LITEBUOY
AUSTRALIA

Just above the base of the Light Buoy appears

Artcraft
LITEBUOY
AUSTRALIA

Contextual Information

A light buoy is a floating, and moored, artificial navigation mark. It can be recognized by means of its shape, colour, pattern, topmark or light character, or a combination of these.

Keywords

Maritime Objects

Place made

Australia

Related Objects

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Parent records

ROOM 1.7 Marine

Busselton Historical Society

Busselton Historical Society

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