b'47193 194JOHN BEECHAM BROWNELL Tasmanian huon pineBEGA BUTTER FACTORY, N.S.W. (attributed), handkerchief box with specimen timber native wood veneers,patriotic antique carved kauri pine rolling pin form butter made as a wedding gift for his niece Madie Brownell,mould and associated butter pat, circa 1900, (2 items),circa 1907. 50cm wideAccompanied by a 2pp manuscript letter from Brownell toThe Bega Butter Factory, erected by the New South Wales Madie dated 8th April, 1907, informing her: The front isCreamery Butter Company Ltd , opened in November 1894.Queensland Honeysuckle, to the right, She-oak, Tas., on the$300500 back mottled Huon Pine, to the left Curly Blackwood, Tas. On the lid Totara (or Totera) N.Z. all veneered on huon pine7.5cm high, 18cm wide, 18cm deep 195AMY MADELINE (MADIE BROWNELL, b. Hobart 1872,Five framed majolica tiles with waratah and flannel flower daughter of William Freeman Brownell and wife Frances Mariamotif, 19th/20th century,nee Preston of Leura, Monnah. Her father founded London79 x 18cm overallHouse, in Liverpool Street, Hobart, which was taken over$400600by Madies brothers in 1888. She married Arthur Rainsford Crump on 9 April 1907 at New Town, Tasmania. 196The boxs maker, Madies uncle JONATHON BEECHAMA pair of antique majolica kookaburra tile plaques in later BROWNELL (1843-1928) was born at Port Arthur, the son oftimber frames, early 20th century,Dr Thomas Cope Brownell. The letter states the box is from15 x 15cm, 30 x 30cm overallAunt Clara and myself as a small token of loving regard, which, although not to be compared with your costly gifts, will,PROVENANCEI trust . afford as much pleasure in using as the writer has hadCollection of the late Geoffrey Maxwell Worthington (2)in making it. Brownell identifies the woods in the letter. $250350 Madies father died at Leura a few months after her wedding and her husband died in 1912 at their home at Waimea, Canterbury in Victoria. John Beecham Brownell worked as a clerk and was a storekeeper in New Norfolk for many years. In 1906 and 1907, when he would have made the box, he was living on the corner of Quarry and Brown Streets in Battery Point, Hobart. (2)$6001,000193'