b'42271 275Antique letter scales brandedSet of eight antique brass bell weights, J. MILLER ANDERSON & Co.,the largest 14lb, 22cm high.19th century, $30050016.5cm high$120200276Two sets of vintage and antique 272 scales with assorted weights, An antique pocket barometer19th and 20th century,with retailers details on the dialthe larger 33cm high (2)FLAVELLE BROS. & ROBERTS,$120200 Sydney & Brisbane, 19th century,5.5cm high overall 277$250350 HURRICANE LANTERN by HARVEY, SHAW & DRAKE, 273 MELBOURNE, 1914,BENDIGO goldfields ore specimen,39cm high overalltogether with a vial of alluvial gold from$150250 the Adelaide Hills,$150250278EMU BRAND Australian wine bottle272274 with embossed emu logo, mid 1860s,THE BEACONSFIELD GOLD MINE,22cm highTASMANIA: $120200280A 1902 Share certificate issued onCOOBER PEDY white opals, group of behalf of The Bonanza Proprietary, N.L.,279 27 polished solid stones, 21 grams, for shares (issued to Edward Walkerapproximately 105ctof Longford) in the gold mining projectDIGGER BRAND, BENDIGO fruit$200300 situate at Beaconsfield and signedcordial bottle, together with a SHARPE by the office bearers of the company.BROS. HEALTH BEVERAGES Framed & glazed, 27 x 31.5cm. stoneware jar, 19th/20th century, 281More than a century later, in 2006 the25cm and 35cm high (2) OPALS: group of assorted polished incredible story of the rescue of miners,$60100stones including solids, doublets and Todd Russell and Brant Webb, fromtriplets (31 items)almost a kilometre underground took$200300 place at the Beaconsfield Mine. Gold was first discovered in Beaconsfield in2821847. However it was not until 1877, when brothers William and DavidThree opal fossil bivalves,Dally discovered the cap of a payablethe largest 4.5cm long (3)gold reef on the eastern slope of$400600 Cabbage Tree Hill, that the intensive mining of the area really began.$100200 275'