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anonymous

Sample of Australian Wood

? Australia, 1862

Object data

wood

height 2.9 cm × width 13.3 cm × depth 4.5 cm

Inscriptions

  • inscription, top centre: Nº 4
  • inscription, on the side: Sandel
  • label, on the side: 1151 former inventory label

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1151

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Only one of the four samples this catalogue number1 originally covered has been found: N° 4, sandalwood. However, despite the inscription, this sample is not sandalwood.

The three missing samples were of Australian mahogany or yarrah (Eucalyptus marginata), shea oak (unidentified) and blue gum (Eucalyptus spec.).

These samples were brought back to the Netherlands by Captain P.A. van Rees in Djambi in 1863.2

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1151

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Sample of Australian Wood, Australia, 1862', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244964

(accessed 20 September 2024 19:41:17).

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