Victorian Gold Rush Nugget Photograph by John Deslandes

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Deslandes, John [Victorian Gold Rush] Carte de visite format albumen print photograph of a gold nugget, with hand colouring in gold; recto with the imprint of J.Deslandes, Photographic Artist, Inglewood.' The card with contemporary inscription in ink: '93lbs, 5oz, 15dwt, 7grs got by Solomon Schlossman & John Davis at Johnstown Berlin June 1870. £4627.4.6' The Berlin Diggings (now known as Rheola) were located near Inglewood, between St.Arnaud and Bendigo. Contemporary reports indicate that on 31st May 1870 on the Berlin diggings, Schlossmann, Davis and another miner named Rendisch dug up the eighth-largest gold nugget ever found in Victoria; it was named the Viscount Canterbury and weighed 1114 troy ounces (34.6 kg). The little-known goldfields photographer John Deslandes is recorded as being active in Inglewood during 1866 by Davies & Stanbury (Mechanical Eye), where he is listed as John Desandes.

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Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.

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