C4015 Column (square), building stone specimen, sandstone, quarried at Free Stone Quarries and Stone Works, Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia, 1906

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C4015 Column (square), building stone specimen, sandstone, quarried at Free Stone Quarries and Stone Works, Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia, 1906

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Quarried at Free Stone Quarries and Stone Works, Pyrmont, Sydney.

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Column (square), building stone specimen, sandstone, quarried at Free Stone Quarries and Stone Works, Pyrmont, Sydney, 1906/exhibited at the New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1906 (OS)
1 - 5ft x 15" Pyrmont stone - such stone used for headstones and other monumental purposes. Reregistered from 87/75, 20/9/1999.

Made: unknown; Pyrmont, New South Wales; 1906

Registration number

C4015

Production date

1906

Height

1525 mm

Width

380 mm

Depth

380 mm

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Acquisition credit line

Gift of Robert Saunders, Quarry Master and Contractor, 1906

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.

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