b'1672ARTIST UNKNOWNMulga Fred (also known as Pelaco Bill), glazed ceramic head,engraved verso Pelaco and other words which are not legible. [The only example known to us.]11 x 8.5cm,In 1917 the clothing manufacturers Pearson & Law renamed their firm Pelaco Ltd. The companys advertising soon depicted a bare-legged, bare-foot Aboriginal man striding along in a pristine white Pelaco dinner-shirt and exclaiming: Mine Tinkit They Fit.A. T. Mockridge drew the original sketch. By the 1930s Pelaco Bill sported a monocle and cigar, or stood resplendent in shirt, tie and trousers beneath the Australian flag. What began as a racist play on civilization and savagery had become something more inclusive. Pelaco Bill proved popular for almost forty years and contributed to the companys rising fortunes. Mulga Fred always maintained that he was the model for Pelaco Bill. Although the 67 company acknowledged his claim by sending him shirts, it oscillated about its connection with him.67 70 $300500KLYTIE PATE pierced pottery vaseALICE art pottery wall vase glazed in with frangipani decoration, purple and red, with applied decoration, 73incised Klytie Pate, incised Alice,25.5cm high 10cm high BENDIGO pottery chocolate $1,2002,000 $120200pot with yellow glaze,circular factory stamp Bendigo Pottery, Epsom,68 71 21cm highMARJORIE McCLELLANDWILLIAM RICKETTS pottery$100200 turquoise glazed pottery jug, face mask wall plaque,incised "Marjorie McClelland, 1937, incised Wm. Ricketts,15cm high, 21cm wide 11cm high$250350 $250350 69A.J. REAY pottery kookaburra ornament,incised A.J. Reay, Bribie Island,5cm high, 12cm wide$120200 74'