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Address:
a Byaduk Second-Hand Store
5787 Hamilton-Port Fairy Rd
BYADUK VIC 3301
Hand-made Model Lighthouse Lamp
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Features:
Hand-carved pine lighthouse
Mallee Root Base
Electric lamp in working order
Dimensions:
21cm wide (across base) x 55cm high
Price: (AUD) $52.00
Lighthouse Lamp - Lamp detail
Lighthouse Lamp
Lighthouse Lamp - Base detail
Foresters Spray Protection Kit
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- Lunguard Face Mask
Circa: 1950s
Features:
No. ASZ18
Acrylic Visor
Exhaust Valve Hood
Manufactured by Industrial Protective Co. Pty Ltd (IPCO)
180 Ferrars Street, South Melbourne
Condition:
One small plastic bottle broken
Case has rusted hinges etc.
Dimensions:
case dimensions: 30.5cm wide x 18cm high x 21.5cm depth
Price: (AUD) $35.00
Foresters Spray Protection Kit
Foresters Spray Protection Kit Contents
Foresters Spray Protection Kit Case
Fire Resisting Safe
Circa: 1900s
Features: Cast Iron
No key
No handle
Door Opens
Condition:
Top, Base and Back are rusted surfaces
Front and both Sides have paint chipped surfaces with rust
Dimensions:
46cm wide x 67cm high x 43.5cm depth
Price: (AUD) $ 85.00
(Can be delivered to your home in Melbourne or a freight depot in Melbourne. Please contact me for further details.)
Fire Resisting Safe - Detail
Fire Resisting Safe
Fire Resisting Safe - Top View
Georgian Style Toilet Mirror
Circa: 1860s
Features: Mahogany
Dimensions:
46cm wide (across base) x 52cm high
mirror dimensions (including mirror frame): 28cm wide x 38cm high
Price: (AUD) $ 245.00
(Can be delivered to your home in Melbourne or a freight depot in Melbourne. Please contact me for further details.)
Georgian style Toilet Mirror - Back
Toilet Mirror - Georgian style
Georgian style Toilet Mirror - Detail
Period Pot Cupboard
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Circa: 1940s
Features: Blackwood
Dimensions: 59.5cm wide x 75cm high x 45cm depth
Price: (AUD) $85.00
Period Pot Cupboard
Late Victorian Toilet Mirror
Circa: Late Victorian
Features:
Mahogany
2 Drawers
Condition:
Slight split along base of one side.
Small piece missing from back of mirror
Price: (AUD) $220.00
(Can be delivered to your home in Melbourne or a freight depot in Melbourne. Please contact me for further details.)
Toilet Mirror
Toilet Mirror - Rear
Toilet Mirror - Drawers Open
Toilet Mirror - Detail
Mahogany Wine Table (Reproduction)
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Price: (AUD) $125.00
Mahogany Wine Table (reproduction) - stand
Mahogany Wine Table (reproduction)
Solid Leather Suitcase with Travel Stickers
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Circa: 1920s
Features:
Made by Pausacker & Evans, Melbourne.
Warranted Solid Leather
Three thistle trademark.
Condition:
General wear and tear.
3 straps on front broken
No Key
Dimensions: 68cm wide x 29.5cm high x 37cm depth
Price: (AUD) $95.00
Solid Leather Suitcase - front
Solid Leather Suitcase - RHS
Solid Leather Suitcase - Inside
From what I can glean the word ‘byaduk’ is not Scottish, despite many tartan settlers in the area, but indigenous. It means either stone axe or running water. With plenty of bluestone chips in the volcanic soil and a permanent stream in Scott’s Creek, it’s hard to choose.
Whatever the origins of the place name, for no particular reason, I have started to collect ducks. Or, if you prefer, I like to buy a duck. And they are flocking in.
My favourites are the vintage wooden decoy ducks, sometimes in cork and often with hand-painted heads and plumage. More often than not there are a few pellet wounds as well.
It is staggering what a range of ducks have been produced in wood, china, plastic and in such a variety of styles. Why are these feathery creatures so popular? Even Leunig features them in his cartoons. The short answer is that there is something very reassuring about a duck.
That may explain why there are quite a few duck fanciers out there. Every time my flock develops, someone comes along to convince me that they need them more than I do. Who can argue? When you are in duck H.Q. (Byaduk) there are always new birds arriving or, if needs be, you can always ’sell a chook and buy-a-duck’!
Two couples arrived together Saturday morning with their fluffy little terrier. One couple, who had become regular customers, seemed to ignore the fact that their dog was cocking his leg at various items of furniture. Everybody has different standards for their pets (not to mention children), so I took it as my duty to warn this little boy off the floral couch and the taupe rug.