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The Neville Locker Collection — Bonhams & Goodman (No longer trading)

Auction House:Bonhams & Goodman (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:302
Sale Title:The Neville Locker CollectionLots with images:194
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:258
Date:29-Apr-2007
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Standard rivet leg irons (bottom irons), When used together with the odd shaped leg iron below they were called 'bottom irons' and became part of a set called 'double irons'
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A set of rivet leg irons (top irons.), elongated to allow a chain to be passed through the top half of the 'double irons' used by 'chain gangs' (hence the name) working on the roads
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Punishment rivet leg irons, an unusual set of standard weight with very heavy chain
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A set of Hiatt barrel lock leg irons, heavy, with key
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A set of Hiatt barrel lock leg irons, heavy, with key
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Prison Regulations 1859, 'General Prison Regulations', small black covered booklet, 16 pages, gold embossed on front cover, General Prison Regulations for the 'Gaols situate with the Police District of Hobart 1859'
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Rolling wall spikes from Hobart Gaol, cast iron pipe, broken off from a longer length, eight spikes threaded into the circumference of the cast pipe in series, from the old Hobart Gaol, Tasmania. 7 cm diameter pipe. Length 43 cm, spikes. Length 23 cm
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William Widgell 1823 Convict indent on vellum, 'Convict Record' for William Widgell, arrived Tasmania 1823, various information including in 1826 he received 50 lashes for breaking the walls of Hobart Gaol, later 75 lashes for breaking out of the Gaol, then for stealing a boat 7 years at Macquarie Harbour
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An ornate iron light bracket, erected on the corner of the building to show light along two walls Ex old Hobart Gaol
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A percussion single barrel trip gun, According to the vendor these guns were used at Eaglehawk neck port Arthur. Escaping convicts had to first get past the sentry boxes and initially they found this relatively easy. So these Trip guns were set up concealed in the grass as an additional deterrent. They were not satisfactory so were then replaced by chained guard dogs
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A port Arthur British military Flintlock Blunderbuss, lock marked 'Crown VR', top of the butt plate is marked '2', full stock with brass furniture, bell mouth (5 cm) 59.8 cm barrel, hinged 35.5 cm triangular bayonet with lock, 100.5 cm long very rare, only two examples would seem to have survived; possibly there were only four originally. These blunderbusses were kept in the stone guard tower at port Arthur, built in 1835 from stone cut by the point Puir boys
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A convict period iron bed, as used in gaol hospital
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A convict period folding barrack bed, of iron construction, sed in the soldiers or prison warders barracks
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A convict period folding barrack bed, of iron construction, used in the soldiers or prison warders barracks
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A leather lash, as used on juveniles, circa 1870
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A timber whipping stool, similar to the type used at Point Puer Port Arthur
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A leather lash, as used at point Puer for punishment of the boys,; accompanied by interesting supporting document, 'Point Puer juvenile Punishment record, 11 August 1838', the record describes punishment of 39 individuals, examples of offences including being in possession of a privately made pair of braces, possession of tobacco, bread concealed in bedding etc, with punishments of up to three days solitary confinement on bread and water, ten to thirteen stripes on the breech (these would have been…
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A pair of Hiatt handcuffs, juvenile size, marked 'No. 6', with key. This type of handcuff would have been used at Point Puer
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A pair of Hiatt handcuffs, juvenile size, no markings, no key
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A set of juvenile plug leg irons, with key, very light weight
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A large man trap, from Tasmania
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A relic padlock, brass lock cover marked 'Crown VR patent'
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Two balance scale weights, the two weights of 12.7kg and 25.4kg, manufactured with arrow symbol
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Balance scale weight, circa 1840, weight of 25.4kg for above scales 'BO' cast into weights
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Heavy steel-yard scales, weighing approximately 226kg
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A Port Arthur carbine, lock marked ''Crown and Tower 1865'
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A cast bronze bell, with iron hanging bracket reputedly used at one of the Probation Stations Tasmania life at all convict establishments was ordered by the bell; first bell at 4
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Warders warning rattle, The rapidly rotated warning rattle had a particularly penetrating sound
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Baton, early colonial, convict period, plain wood with carved Crown symbol
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baton, wood, painted brown, marks 'W IV R' (William IV)
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Baton, painted wood stamped with 'Royal Coat of Arms', 1826
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A police warder's cutlass, brass mounts, sharkskin grips, blade lock, as used in all NSW and Tasmanian Gaols, circa 1830
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Baton, wood with painted crest and 'Police'
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Baton, wood with painted crown, marked 'KP 30'
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Baton, Wood with painted crown marked 'VR AP'
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Baton, wood with painted crown, marked 'VR'
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Baton, black wood finish, carved with Irish Harp and three-leaf clover
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Baton, wood with military marking and arrow symbol and '252'
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Baton, wood with painted finish, marked with 'crown' and letters 'VR'
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Cat-nine-tails, standard weight Government issue
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A set of triangle restraints, used to restrain the legs of prisoners being flogged at the triangles
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A pair of handcuffs, with unusual adjustment; and a barrel lock with key
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A Hiatt barrel lock, Single lock made from handcuff, with key
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A pair of adjustable handcuffs, Hiatt marked, modified barrel lock with key
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A pair of figure eight handcuffs, with key, made from standard Hiatt style cuffs with chain removed and the cuffs riveted together
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A pair of light Hiatt style handcuffs, probably from an escaped felon with one cuff sawn through
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Three large keys, tied with leather
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Three large iron keys, held together on ring
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A swivel peephole. Provenance: Ex. Hobart Gaol
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A flat pad bolt, cell door lock with padlock, painted green. Provenance: Ex port Arthur
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An early padlock with key, brass cover over lock, marked with Crown symbol and 'VR', improved tumbler lock
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An iron padlock with key, lock cover, no makers name, additional key on ring
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Cell pad bolt with solid brass admiralty lock, lock marked on reverse 'Jas Morgan and Sons Ltd, Justin Square'. These are believed to be from the prison hulk 'Success'
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Probation station bible, 'British and Foreign bible Society bible', new Testament, 1836, citation on inside front cover 'Brown's river, Probation station, J. Skene', brown covers, with broad arrow stamp burnt into cover
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Brown Bess Flint musket and bayonet, in untouched condition with a beautiful patina. A stand of 1,000 of these arms together with 30,000 rounds of ammunition were deposited at Oatlands Tasmania for use by the volunteers involved in the Black War. This and the following cut down Bess both came out of an old Tasmanian collection
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Hobart Town Gazette 1830, Volume XV Number 747, Saturday, September 18, 1830 This newspaper includes detailed orders given by the Lieutenant Governor Arthur in regard to the forthcoming attempt to round up all the Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land
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Bushranger flintlock musket, These Brown Bess flintlock muskets were shortened for bush use during the 1820-30 period to arm settlers against bushrangers and aboriginals
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Hobart Town Gazette 1832, Volume XVIII Number 838, Friday, June 15, 1832, 'Printed and Published at the Hobart Town Gazette Office, by James Ross 1832', including 'Government Order No. 2, 25 February 1830 r'escinding offers of a reward of five pounds for the capture of every adult aboriginal native male and two pounds for children delivered at any police station', other notices refer to 'granting of Tickets of Leave and Certificates of Freedom' and 'Proclamation by Colonel George Arthur addressing sale of…
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Pattern 1846 percussion military musket with bayonet, Lock marked with 'Crown VR 1846' Note the back sight; the first to be used on a regular military musket
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British Coat of Arms, cast iron crest placed above front doors of Government buildings; and another brass coat of arms (2)
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Leg iron and handcuff display, including a collection of six items: leather lash, rivet leg irons, Hiatt heavy leg irons, standard Hiatt handcuffs, Hiatt adjustable handcuffs and Hiatt come-alongs
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British Coat of Arms, pressed brass
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Musket ball moulds, large 13 bore brass musket size bullet mould; and an iron ball mould (2)
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Two musket tools, one a relic, issued to Sergeants only
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A Government branding iron, double ended arrow, for marking timber, etc
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A Government branding iron, broad arrow, for fire branding cattle and/or horses
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A Government branding iron, bearing letters 'VR', for fire branding horses
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Iron bound wood military chest, Cast plate on lid with Royal Coat of Arms (Crest) 'Richard Telford, No 5 Harcourt Street Dublin'
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A pair of Hiatt style handcuffs, barrel screw lock handcuffs with the 'Broad arrow' and 'Bo' engraving on the end of the handcuff barrel, early and rare, very few known marked thus
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Regulation matching set of convict road gang 'Double Irons', with cold chisel marks on the irons which indicate that they have been used then 'Struck off' by the blacksmith. According to the vendor this is the only known matching set of top and bottom leg irons (double irons) with the broad arrow and board of Ordinance stamp; the elongated top irons were made in this shape both to get at the rivet head on the bottom irons and also to take the chains which linked the groups of convicts, together in work…
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Heavy iron hammer head 'Ovalled' leg irons, with the Government broad arrow mark on two faces; and a pair of rivet leg irons as used by convicts working in leg irons in road and quarry gangs, hammered to an 'Oval' shape thus allowing the convict to slip them over his heals and remove them. Approx 4.5kg in weight with a heavy hammer like this, a few blows were all that was required to 'Oval' the leg irons and abscond
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Punishment leg irons, When they were building the road over the blue Mountains up to thirty convicts a month were absconding from the chain gangs. When recaptured, heavy rivet leg irons such as these were riveted on to the convict as punishment. It was impossible to 'Oval' these as they would still be double ironed with the lighter standard irons on top to take the chains
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Cat-nine-tails, regulation issue, medium weight, handle covered in black material held in place with three Turks head cord lashings, the end of the handle covered in canvas and numbered '18', cord tails. Handle 51 cm long, tails 79 cm long
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Warders constabulary percussion carbine 1847, These were used by the warders at Berrima Gaol and other gaols
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English Brown Bess flintlock musket, lndia pattern lock marked 'Tower Crown GR', with bayonet, no ramrod, circa 1810
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Cessation of Transportation medal, Tasmania 1853, white metal
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A pair of child's hob-nail boots, convict era, new and unused. Boot making was an industry that employed many convicts
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Boot maker's tools, in old wooden box, approximately 58 items including: tin of formers, leather soles, heels, beeswax, thread, various mixed tools and a boot makers rule
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Leather convict cap, in good original condition and with clear 'Broad Arrow' and 'BO' marks, as worn by Bathurst convicts working on the chain gangs road building and also when building the Berrima Gaol 1837
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Isolation mask, hessian material This type of mask was used at the Berrima Gaol which like port Arthur worked on the 'Pentonville Silent System' to enforce discipline
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Prisoner's gag, consisting of a piece of wood with a hole through it, to be placed in the mouth and a leather strap which buckled behind the neck. This type of gag was used at Berrima Gaol and is described in detail in the book 'In old Australia' by the Rev. Hassall, the Gaol Chaplain for many years in the mid 1800's
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A copy of 'In Old Australia', published 1902, recording reminiscences from 1790 by the Rev. James S. Hassall; and newspaper clippings regarding the death of George Thomas Hassall 27 July 1910 and the death of Harriet Jane Oxley 3rd daughter of the late Reverend Thomas Hassall
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Relic convict waistcoat, found in the roof of the 'Good woman Inn' Hobart; and a copy of an associated newspaper cutting
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An important early convict waistcoat, the back panel of fine cotton plain weave with remnant olive green twill worsted wool fabric detailing at seams and back collar, oil based stamps on back panel and oversewn patches, original stamp 'Bathurst Gaol' in a circle with the 'broad arrow' in the centre and the number '51' stamped above, two further patches sewn over this original number stamped '202' and '272', a further third patch has been sewn over these numbered panels stamped 'Berrima Gaol' in a circle…
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A letter, dated London 3 May 1853, seeking information about convict James Radburn; originator is James Castle, his brother-in-law, acting on behalf of his wife and father-in-law, Royal Italian opera, Covent garden, London, England. James Radburn arrived in Hobart per Barossa
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A copy of the Will and record of Probate, 1865, certified copy of the Will and record of Probate for John Clark, of Franklin on the River Huon, Tasmania, bearing date 21 July 1865, original probate granted 12 August 1865, names of individuals mentioned are John Wallis Kellaway, Woodstoack, Huon; Thomas Stansfield, Franklin; Patrick Casy, Walter Paisley and David Ballantyne, copy certified by appointed solicitors S
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Ticket Freedom 1845, 'Ticket to Freedom (Ticket of Leave) No. 391.1845' for Owen Taylor sentenced at Devon, Tiverton quarter Sessions on 3 July 1838 to Hobartown per 'Pyramus' 1839 (22 November 1838), granted 4 July 1845
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Manuscript, 'Return of free persons Tried at Launceston quarter Sessions, 15 and 16 August 1854', convicts include John Tarrant, Edward little and Mary Smith
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Manuscript circa 1845, an example of the re-use of blank government forms, recycling paper, information recorded detail wages due to pass holder, poetry on reverse; unknown author, good condition
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Manuscript, an example of the re-use of blank government forms, recycling paper, unknown author possibly Manus McGrath, includes descriptions of curiosities, fish and animals, also mentions two men Stephen 'Touiey' and John Walsh; on reverse is a poem bearing the title 'The garden', the manuscript also bears details of Mr E. Hamson and has an attached seal, good condition
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New South Wales Government Gazette, 'No. 77, Wednesday, 21 August 1833' (pp315 to 333); noted items include an Act for regulating Police in Town and Port of Sydney; Sale of land and names of applicants. Includes mention of George Barber, junior, James Woodley, Samuel Terry and others, good condition
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New South Wales Government Gazette, 'No. 377 Supplement, 15 December 1838' (pp 1099 to 1111, noted amendments to Acts of parliament effective from 1 October 1838, passed by Legislative Council 28 August 1838, good condition
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Manuscript convict record Highway Robbery, 'Convict record No. 719 for Margaret Devine, Per Aurora 10 August 1851', sentenced for highway robbery, sailed from London 26 April 1851 from London for Hobart with 232 females, 3 died on voyage, one page glued to board, poor condition
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Five convict documents, recording crimes committed by convicts while on probation 1845-1848 in the Richmond area of Van Diemen's Land, noted convicts are George Patterson for stealing a gate valued at 2/- (two shillings), James Baker caught playing cards in Mr Burgesses public house, James Berry and Isabella Watson caught in a Disorderly House near Richmond
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Manuscript Indenture 1823, dated 9 May 1823 between Samuel Carr of Wilberforce, New South Wales, and Administrator for Giles William Moore and Tristram Moore of Wilberforce, mentions portion land granted by Governor Macquarie. 4 pages, good condition
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Two manuscripts, 'Petitions to the Assistant Comptroller, Comptroller General's Office, Hobart, 21 March 1850', petitioner is Samuel Shaw, convicted Sydney, New South Wales, seeking approval to submit a 'Memorial to the Governor of New South Wales for a remission of sentence for absconding from that colony in 1842', petitioner addresses his good conduct and differences in prescribed penalties
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Manuscript, 'Statistical Report to New South Wales Legislative Assembly', detailing work performed by prisoners in Darlinghurst Gaol for period 1 January 1854 to 1858' featuring statistics about male and female prisoners, erection of new buildings, maintenance of existing buildings and manufacture of goods, also details indulgences to prisoners. Report prepared by John O'Neill Brenan, Sheriff and H
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Manuscript, 'Conduct record of William Allum' (a. k. a. William Wheeler), reference number 19600, sentenced at Berkshire on 24 February 1841, and embarked on 6 April 1841 per 'Asia', in constant trouble over next 24 years for mostly minor matters including 'sleeping in church'; served sentences under various masters at Hobart and Port Arthur his last sentence is recorded on 8 May 1865, fair condition
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Manuscript, 'Conditional Pardon No. 439 Van Diemen's Land 7 July 1848 granted to Richard Mason, per 'Equestrian' 1844', signed and sealed by W Denison, Lieutenant-Governor, good condition
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Bound collection of 'Acts and Ordnances, I to XXIV New South Wales?Victoria 1839' by Sir George Gipps, Governor, 1840, printed by J. Tegg & Co., George Street Sydney, including acts detailing conditions to allow Aboriginal Natives to be competent witnesses in criminal cases '... enabling churchwardens of St. James, Sydney to carry out extensions ensuring alignment of streets' '..
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