Australia

Tasmania Battery Grub Shaft Gold Mine Original sepia photograph of the 'Tasmania Battery Grub Shaft Gold Mine Beaconsfield 110 Head Stamps'.

ref. 11881 — Undated Grub Shaft Gold Mine Tasmania 1890s. Three men and a boy among a tangle of plant machinery including two of Luhrig's patent compound vanner fuel manufacturers. Original sepia landscape photograph 13.5 x 19.5 cm. In fair condition lightly ruckled and worn. In pencil in a contemporary on reverse 'Tasmania Battery Beaconsfield 110 Head Stamps' together with 'Tasmania Ba<.>' in another hand in ink. The four individuals on two levels of the clean well-lit plant pose for the camera in hats and waistcoats. In the foreground are two machines stamped 'LÜHRIG PATENT VANNER' pulverising machine. The mine is now the Beaconsfield Mine & Heritage Centre formerly the Grubb Shaft Gold & Heritage Museum. Image on application. Undated [Grub Shaft Gold Mine, Tasmania, 1890s]. unknown