ONLINE ONLY ESTATE COLLECTABLE AUCTION
Thursday, 8 - Monday, 12 May 2025
1889 DUNEDIN EXHIBITION SUEDE LGE BAG w painted & poker worked image of the Austral Otis Tower. 370 x 490mm
Realised: $20 plus premium
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Note: The Austral Otis Tower was a 40m (131 ft) high loose replica of the Eiffel Tower, used to demonstrate its elevators; an anthropometrial laboratory that tested and measured the faculties of 10,000 visitors – an idea taken from the 1884 London Health Exhibition; the Early History, Māori and South Seas Court, an ethnograohic display…
