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A Victorian sterling silver bosun's whistle, 1863 Birmingham,…
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Melbourne
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23-Mar-2014
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A Victorian sterling silver bosun's whistle, 1863 Birmingham, with maker's marks for Hilliard & Thomason, of tubular shape with a Crown and anchor each side of the whistle barrel and bright cut, presented to T. Dorgan by Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne (Queen Victoria's fourth daughter and her husband) on the 25th November 1878, the date of the Marquis's inauguration as the fourth Governor General of Canada and the day the couple disembarked their ship 'Sarmatian' in Halifax Nova Scotia. Silver weight 20gr length 13.5 cm
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Sundries: Whistles