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Engraved snuff box [D 8783/1(Misc)] • Realia

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Summary

Metal snuff box.

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Physical description

Artefact
1 object : 1.5 x 7 x 5.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1864

Metal engraver

Hore, Joseph

Subject

Hore, Joseph
Snuff boxes and bottles -- South Australia

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Historical information

The snuff box was found by a keen amateur local archaeologist at a dig on the wharf behind the Port Wakefield Court House in 2013. Preliminary research suggests Joseph Hore was from Willamulka near Moonta and died in 1920. Joseph Hore was a miner from St Austell, Cornwall, and arrived in Adelaide with his wife and three young sons in June 1864 on board the 'Eastern Empire' along with over 300 other immigrants. The representation of a clipper ship on the snuff box is possibly this immigrant ship. The family went first to the Burra, but by 1865 were settled in Wallaroo Mines, where six more children were born. Sometime in the 1870s the Hores left mining and took up farming at nearby Willamulka. They were a musical family, and were involved in the Willamulka Bible Christian Church.

Digitisation information

Date

25/08/2015

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3,078 x 2,646 pixels (8.1 MP)

Size

24.47 MB

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