Summary
Bronze badge, manufactured for the Sydney Coal Lumpers Union. It was worn to represent membership of the union.
The Sydney Coal Lumpers Union was registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act in 1881. The main task of a coal lumper was to move the coal from colliers or hulks that brought it to Sydney into other vessels. The Sydney coal lumpers saw themselves as akin to miners rather than wharf labourers and were always industrially and occupationally separate from them.
Obverse Description
SYDNEY COAL LUMPERS /* UNION * Figure of a coal lumper trying to break bundle, underneath UNION IS/STRENGTH
Reverse Description
JAN/422 impressed
Edge Description
Plain
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Numismatics & Philately, Public Life & Institutions, Transport
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Acquisition Information
Transfer from National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), George McArthur, 15 Mar 1976
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Issued By
Sydney Coal Lumpers Union, Sydney, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Previous Collection
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Inscriptions
Plain (edge) SYDNEY COAL LUMPERS /* UNION * Figure of a coal lumper trying to break bundle, underneath UNION IS/STRENGTH (obverse) JAN/422 impressed (reverse)
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Series
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Material
Bronze
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Axis
12
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Classification
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Shape
Oval
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References
[Thesis] Lugton, Mary E. 1989. George McArthur of Maldon: his Life and his Book Collection.
[Catalogue] Morrison, Ian. 2003. The Baker of Maldon.
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