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[ 387VM ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna, Exotic Animals
Owner: Valda Mentjox  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Sam Gibbs (born 1886) was a wild dog trapper in South Australia. Doggers were paid for catching dingoes and dogs and Scorpion Springs, on the S.A. and Victorian border, and Emu Springs were likely bore holes for trapping. Sam..."

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[ 390CC ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random
Owner: Cressida Mary Webb Challis  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "One of a pair of quilts made for the makers' own beds. "These were made c.1961 - my mother remembers staying with them at the time they were made, when I was a baby and my brother was about 3. They were made very quickly,..."

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[ 391CC ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random
Owner: Cressida Mary Webb Challis  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "One of a pair of quilts made for the makers' own beds. "These were made c.1961 - my mother remembers staying with them at the time they were made, when I was a baby and my brother was about 3. They were made very quickly,..."

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[ 599PWH ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: The Pioneer Women's Hut  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA VIC -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Agnes Chitty (1857-1934) was born Agnes Kersey in the Beechworth district of Victoria. Her mother Maria and father William were both English and William was a miner looking for gold. In 1862 Maria and her daughter Lydia both died..."

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[ 621PWH ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: The Pioneer Women's Hut  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA Vic -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "Agnes Chitty (1857-1934) was born Agnes Kersey in the Beechworth district of Victoria. Her mother Maria and father William were both English and William was a miner looking for gold. In 1862 Maria and her daughter Lydia both died..."

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[ 648NG ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Mosaic, Hexagon
Owner: Norma Gilchrist  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Sylvia Schliebs (1898-1995) and her daughter Norma sewed this quilt in the wintertime after tea at night. They lived on a mixed farm, 'Spring Valley', and Sylvia's life was like that of many farmers' wives with farm jobs to do..."

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[ 727CS ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Embroidered and/or Appliqued, Signature
Owner: Catherine Llewelyn-Smith  -  Country/Place Created: TURKEY Izmir (formerly Smyrna) -  Date: 1901 - 1920
Story of Quilt: "A Remnant From Smyrna This quilt remnant comes from the once-great city of Smyrna, now called Izmir, in Turkey, where Greeks had lived for hundreds of years, probably even back to 1000 BC and through the time of Alexander the..."

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[ 970NGA ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Embroidered and/or Appliqued, Pictorial
Owner: National Gallery of Australia  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Mary Jane Hannaford was born in Devonshire, England in 1840. She came to Australia on board the 'London', arriving in Sydney in March 1842. The family moved to Tamworth after the Australian Agricultural Company contracted her..."

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[ 976NGA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Strip, Typically Australian, Motifs or Names
Owner: National Gallery of Australia  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Quilt History: "Mrs Isabella Cooke (Australia 1860-1942) made this quilt around 1930. Gift of Pearl Cooke, the artist's granddaughter, to the National Gallery of Australia, 1992."

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[ 1065ML ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block, Embroidered and/or Appliqued, Typically Australian, Motifs or Names
Owner: Margaret Luke  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Doreen Alice Shelton (aged 17 or 16 at the time) was instructed by an adoring aunt often under the old apple tree in 8th Ave St Peters SA. She completed the quilt in 1935/36 for South Australia's centenary in which parade she..."

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