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Streeter & Co. Ltd
The 102nd catalog of jewelry issued during 1898-1899 by Streeter & Co., Ltd. of 18 New Bond St., London W. The catalog includes fine chromolithograph illustrations in gold and colors, brief descriptions of the pieces, and prices, for bracelets, brooches, chains, head ornaments, necklaces, pendants, pins, rings, and tiaras fashioned in gold and gems; as well as for cigarette tubes and cases; cigar cutters; heraldic ornaments; match boxes and knives in amber, crystal, gold and gems; and watches in gold, gems, and enamel. There are also short descriptions of the most important gemstones, extracted from Edwin W. Streeter's Precious stones and gems (London: George Bell & Son, 1892, rev. 1898).
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Octopus Crowd
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focu...
The Handspike
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