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Mutton-b ird Shed Tally Board


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      Date: 1900 -

Description: Square board (probably Burnie Board), painted with dark green blackboard paint, with handwritten in chalk list of customers and the number of mutton-birds they required. (CHS 4000, 7000; Becks 2000; Honest Tom 500). Each commercial mutton- bird shed would have one of these to register orders. Becks was a dealer in Launceston, Honest Tom was Tom Langley who ran the store at Lady Barron.

Format: realia
Object: blackboards

Titles:
Mutton-b ird Shed Tally Board

Subjects: mutton-birds

People/Orgs: Willis, Frank & Heather

Institution: Furneaux Historical Research Association Inc.

Object number: FHR_00492

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