Furniture handle
Production date
Pre 1790
Pre 1790
Country
Australia
State/Province
Queensland
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Description
Brass cabinet handle parts. Elaborate 'bale type' handle; one post and relief with threaded screw and decorated head, embossed beaded circular plate. .
Production date
Pre 1790
Pre 1790
Pre 1790
Media/Materials description
Copper alloy
History and use
In 1790 HMS Pandora sailed from England in pursuit of the HMS Bounty and its mutineers. The Pandora was wrecked in 1791 on its return voyage while attempting to negotiate the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Queensland Museum archaeological expeditions between 1983 and 1999 recovered many artefacts.
Brass cabinet handle parts. Elaborate 'bale type' handle; one post and relief with threaded screw and decorated head, embossed beaded circular plate.
HMS Pandora
Queensland Museum archaeological expeditions between 1983 and 1999 recovered many artefacts.
Brass cabinet handle parts. Elaborate 'bale type' handle; one post and relief with threaded screw and decorated head, embossed beaded circular plate.
HMS Pandora
Registration number
MA1171
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