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      Date: 1877 -

Description: Barrel shaped wooden container for holding sailmakers needles. Decorated with 4 incised rings at top and bottom. From the wreck of the City of Foochow. The City of Foochow was built 1864 and wrecked 16th March 1877 between North Point, Flinders Island and Babel Island.

Format: realia
Object: sail making tools
Material: wood

Titles:
Needle Bobbin

Subjects: shipwrecks

People/Orgs: City of Foochow (vessel)

Institution: Furneaux Historical Research Association Inc.

Object number: FHR_00134

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