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IRON TRIVET

c. 1980
Overview

Arch shaped metal frame with a fish-shaped handle on the flat edge and standing on three legs, one on each point of the arch. The base has a square design with dissected circles within the pattern and raised teeth along the top edge of the arches.

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 from the past and created numerous sets/dioramas relating to the past, including miner's camps, the old bank, the old shop, a mine and a bushranger's camp. When his daughter took over, the place was allowed to run into disrepair and was eventually fire bombed. 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.
The museum was part of a collection of attractions that also included History House, Elizabethan Village and Pioneer World that opened up between the 1960s and early 1980s which were themed around historical tourism.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-33-COA2015.5
Width
115 mm
Height or length
282 mm
Keywords
Kelmscott
Gillwell Avenue , Kelmscott
Kelmscott Museum of Western Australian History
HINLOOPEN Jan
Year
c. 1980
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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