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[ 46DT ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Exotic Animals
Owner: Doug Tremble  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "I trapped the rabbits - foxes and my late wife had them tanned and sewed them up herself. She had the skins tanned in Sydney. I think the tannery was in Newtown Sydney. It is still used on my bed in the winter and in the summer is..."

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[ 82BH ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Exotic Animals
Owner: Beth Hoskins  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Eric and Nan Roberts obtained one of the first commercial radio licences in NSW during the depression, 2WG Wagga Wagga. They worked hard and the station just survived and then prospered. Eric was a recreational shooter of foxes and..."

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[ 92JM ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Repeat Block
Owner: Jeanne Mims  -  Country/Place Created: USA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "The maker, Nancy Melvina Kelso, was born in 1874 in Wayne County, Iowa, and died in 1964 in the same place. She was one of 8 children of Daniel and Fannie Kelso. Nancy was the daughter who stayed at home to look after aged parents. ..."

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[ 120BF ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna
Owner: Bud and Patricia Ford  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "Mr. Kynock's son who snared the whip tail wallabies was paid 2/6 each for them. After they were wattle bark tanned at Cloake's tannery in Toowoomba, Hugh Bird Ford [1895-1968] used a template of 3 ply to get them all the same..."

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[ 121BF ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Exotic Animals
Owner: Bud and Patricia Ford  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "It took Bud and Patricia Ford 6 months of intermittent work in the evenings to stitch the rug. This was by kerosene lamplight at 'Aldersyde' Homestead, Miles Queensland."

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[ 123BF ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Native Fauna
Owner: Bud and Patricia Ford  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA QLD -  Date: 1941-1970
Story of Quilt: "Bud Ford recalled that Noel Gundry, who shot the kangaroos, was a very good shot, 'definitely a head shot man'. The skins were chrome tanned, a new method in the sixties and, according to Bud, not as successful as tan bark."

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[ 221RA ] Quilt Style: Pieced Animal skins, Exotic Animals
Owner: Rozanne Andrew  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA -  Date: 1921 - 1940
Story of Quilt: "The total cost of the rug was 7 pounds, to be tanned and made up. Cats were in plague proportions and were trapped by Mr Alf Schick in Loxton, SA. They were sent to the tannery in Tanunda, which belonged to Juttner, to be made..."

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[ 222RA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Crazy
Owner: Rozanne Andrew  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Further on from last correspondence regarding information on 3 quilts I own from my paternal grandmother. Â... This is information on grandmother's life. Name - Bertha Fechner & Philip Fechner D.O.B 19/5/1888 D. 20/12/73 D.O.B..."

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[ 223RA ] Quilt Style: Patchwork, Pieced Random, Typically Australian, Re-used clothing or blanket
Owner: Rozanne Andrew  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA SA -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Further on from last correspondence regarding information on 3 quilts I own from my paternal grandmother. Â... This is information on grandmother's life. Name - Bertha Fechner & Philip Fechner D.O.B 19/5/1888 D. 20/12/73 D.O.B..."

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[ 375MR ] Quilt Style: Wholecloth, Utilitarian, Typically Australian, Traditional Wagga
Owner: Max Robertson  -  Country/Place Created: AUSTRALIA NSW -  Date: 1941 - 1970
Story of Quilt: "Norman Robertson worked on properties in the Coolamon district of NSW and also at Pike's flour mill. One of his jobs was sewing up bags of wheat on farms. He made the Wagga Rug to use on beds in the sleepout of the Coolamon house..."

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