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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The John Lancaster Collections of Australian Trade Exhibitions
• Sale Date:
  18 Oct 2016 ~ 1pm
• Lot #:
  362
• Lot Description:
  QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF MINES: Publications for the QIE, 1897
  "Catalogue of the Exhibits in the QUEENSLAND MINING COURT..." by R.L. Jack [Edmund Gregory, Brisbane, 1897] 56 pp; also, "The Charters Towers Gold Field, with Notes on the Yield of the Various Mines. Compiled for The Charters Towers Exhibition Committee". [Edmund Gregory, Brisbane, 1897]; 23 pp. (2 items).
• Notes:
  "The central business of the Exhibition was to display the booming mining industry in the hope of encouraging international investment. The Department of Mines occupied a prominent position close to the entrance, displaying a huge collection of specimens, backed up by geological reports and maps. Towering over it was a variation on the monumental symbol of total extracted gold, a pair of gilded columns 35 feet high. They were flanked by 12 gilded obelisks representing the production of each major Queensland goldfield. Newspaper commentary started out admiring but gradually changed tone, realising that the show would have been more effective if held in London, where the investors were. To this end, the core of the Queensland International Exhibition minerals did indeed move on to the Greater Britain Exhibition of 1899." Linda Young, "How like England can we be?"
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Collectables

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