Courtland Pottery Article 2

COURTLAND Pottery Works – Great Eastern Highway, Belmont, Western AustraliaAlso known as Sydney Pottery Works; Courtland & Pedersen;C.R. Courtland Pty. Ltd., and G.T. Courtland Ltd. Courtland’s Pottery was one of the early potteries in Western Australia to concentrate on wheel thrown pottery – as distinct from potteries that made building materials.  Although at one stage they made some drain…

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1905 Golding Pearl No 1 Printing Press

This treadle powered printing press, serial number 2169, was part of a batch of presses numbered 2163 to 2192 that were finished at the Golding factory on 31st October 1905 and has been dated from factory records1.  It is a hand-fed and foot-operated letterpress printing press, i.e. a printing press that prints from lead printers’ type onto a flat…

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1891 Golding Official No 4 Printing Press

This table top printing press, serial number 1161, was part of a batch of presses numbered 1140 to 1164 that were finished at the Golding factory on 30th June 1891 and has been dated from factory records.  It is a hand-fed and hand-operated letterpress printing press, i.e. a printing press that prints from lead printers’ type onto a flat…

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