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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Type
Lockets
Date
1881
Place
Australia
Materials
Gold, Ink, Metal - non specific, Paper, Photographic emulsion
Collection
Trevor Kennedy collection
Accession number
2020.0002.0079

Description

A gold oval photo locket engraved on the front with 'LUCKNOW REFORM / TO / [HWN?] / 3-12-81'. The back of the locket is engraved with 'From / [T or C?]M'. Inside the locket is a black and white photograph of a woman wearing an oval locket.

This commemorative locket is a product of the gold rush in Australia. It was made from gold mined at the Lucknow goldfield in New South Wales. It was made in 1881 as a gift for the successful miner Henry Newman from his wife Catherine Newman, the same year a new vein named Reform was discovered and mined by him.

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:20:28 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-11-18. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.