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Sewing kit
1919 – 1954
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This machine quilted sewing kit is made from a sprigged cotton print and woollen cloth. Two internal pockets contain a variety of sewing and darning threads and needles, tapes, buttons, pins, and a news clipping. A Burns Philp memo to the Master of the MALAITA has been used to wrap spare buttons. The sewing kit is thought to have made by Basil Helm during his years as a boarder at Scots College, Sydney.
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Details
- Title: Sewing kit
- Date: 1919 – 1954
- Location: Sydney
- Type: Sewing kit
- Significance: This is an excellent example of shipboard personal items from a Burns Philp line captain at the height of Burns Philp operations during the mid-twentieth century.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Cotton, wool, thread, metal, paper
- Dimensions: 157 x 215 x 18 mm
- Credit line: ANMM Collection Gift from Margaret Royds
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