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			Title		Queen Gooseberry's rum mug
			Level of Description		Collection
			Date of Work		c.1800
			Type of Material		Graphic Materials
			Call Number		R 252
			Issue Copy		Digitised :
			Physical Description		Objects : 1 bronze mug, welded down one side and welded base, with semi-circular handle attached with pins to upper edge ; 9 cm. base diameter; 9 cm. height; 13 cm. height with handle extended - one hole near upper rim


					Access only by appointment with Pictures staff
			General Note		Gooseberry was the Queen of Bungarie. Source: ML catalogue card See Reminiscences of David Scott Mitchell by Fred Wymark at Am 121/2/1 p. 21 for Wymark's account of this mug.
			Name		Gooseberry
			Subject		David Scott Mitchell Collection.
			Topic		mugs
			Exhibited in		Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770 - 1850 Flesh & Blood: Family Connections in Sydney 1788 - 1998 Look again ... re - interpreting Aboriginal history Stranger than fiction The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (The Exhibition)
			Digital order no.		Album ID : 823693