b'25848281a 82THE BELL FAMILY OF HOBART and COLAC: A blackAn antique 18ct yellow gold and shell brooch with floral gilded leather-bound Bell family photograph albumdecoration, 19th century,(16.5 x 23.2 x 6.0cm) with brass clasp, 54pp. Partially filledstamped 18C. F.B.&CO.,with 36 albumen paper cartes-de-visite taken in Melbourne,5cm wide, 14.3 grams total including shellsHobart & the U.K., c.1860s-1870s; the last photograph in the$6001,000album is of George Meredith Bells grave, c.1890s, and is the only New Zealand photograph. 83Most of the photographs appear to be of the immediate family:An antique silver plated bangle decorated with kookaburras Margaret and George and their children, Charles (b.1866),and kingfisher in gold finished highlights, 19th/20th century,Louisa Margaret (b.1867), Arthur (b.1869) and Harold Meredith (b.1880). The photographs of Margaret Bell from the mid- $120200 1860s onwards show her as a handsome and fashionable woman, of erect posture, and with a taste for fine, gold84jewellerypendant earrings, a large cross, a muff chain withAn unmounted shell cameo with carved fobs and an array of brooches. kangaroo decoration, 19th/20th century,$1,0002,000housed in an un-associated demi-lune leather box,3cm high$250350'