• Title
  [Spade] Presented to Annie Thomasine Parkes, daughter of the Hon. Sir Henry Parkes...on the occasion of her turning the first sod of the St. Leonards to Pearce's Corner [Hornsby] Railway, 1887
• Call number
  LR 12
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1887
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  446631
• Physical Description
  Objects - Silver spade with rectangular blade engraved with Australian flora and inscribed, with timber handle decorated by gilt leaf and floral bands. At top of handle is mounted a gilt railway locomotive, at base is a gilt ribbon with engraved legend 'Advance Australia'. - 75.3 x 16.5 cm. (blade 24.5 x 16.5 cm.)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The North Shore line from St. Leonards was opened for traffic on 1 January 1890.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2005.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823533
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from incscription
  Full inscription reads: "Presented to Annie Thomasine Parkes, daughter of the Hon. Sir Henry Parkes KCMG Senior Member for St. Leonards and Prime Minister of New South Wales, by the people of the electorate on the occasion of her turning the first sod of the St. Leonards to Pearce's Corner Railway, Wednesday August 10th 1887"
  'F. J. Mackaness, 300 George Street Sydney' -- engraved on reverse of blade
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Mackaness, F. J.
  
• Subject
  Parkes, Henry, Sir, 1815-1896
  
• Topic
  daughters
  locomotives
  politicians
  presentation pieces
  Prime Ministers
  railway lines
  railways
  spades
  
• Place
  Pearces Corner
  St. Leonards (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Stories in silver - State Library of New South Wales
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (Jan-June 2006)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3312068

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