Category: Objects
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Everyday Treasures from a Chinese Home
These are some of the artefacts that came from the home and they include: soy sauce bottles, ginger and pickling jars, Chinese choppers, baskets and decorative soup spoons.
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Chinese Opium tin
This Chinese opium tin dates from between 1860 – 1900, with it in the collection is a tiny tobacco or opium pipe, may have been owned by Chen Quin Jack or William Tootong, another Chinese ancestor. Both men were gold and tin miners around the Uralla and Tingha regions during the 1860s to 1910s
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1905 membership booklet for the Sydney Long Du Association
This 1905 membership booklet for the Sydney Long Du Association and belonged to belonged to a Fung Gum Moon ⽅⾦滿 (Fang Jinman) — AKA 金滿 “Kum Moon” — from Ho Chung 濠涌 (Hao Yong) village in the south China district of Long Du (隆都)
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Nell’s trip on the S.S. Kumano Maru to China in 1907
In April 1907, Ellen Mon How – AKA Mrs Moon or Nell embarks on a journey to China, aboard the S.S. Kumano Maru. This is collection of mementos from Nell’s trip.
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Discovering a Silk cloth inscribed by Liang Qichao, Inverell, 1901
In 2022, I was fortunate to have Ely Finch visit my home, where I had the opportunity to show him my collection. I had a bag of embroidered silk scarves and handkerchiefs, as well as a beautiful silk cloth that I draped in front of him. I asked, “What about this?
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Ellen (Nell) TooTong
A significant portion of my collection originated from Ellen (Nell) Tootong, and her close family. Nell’s artefacts add to the narrative of her life in Tingha and travels to China. They include family documents, photographs, personal keepsakes and relics — like this front door key to Mrs Ellen Hyde’s House in Tingha. For me, this…
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AH Jack and Party Mining Leases
This collection of 27 mining leases for the Cope Harding, Tingha, Peel and Uralla in northern NSW, and date from 1911 up to 1940. There are two with Quin Jack’s name as ‘Ah Jack’. Some leases were signed by Quin’s son, Les Jack. Most of the leases are for Quin’s half-sister — Ellen Mon How…
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Ah Jack’s mining artefacts
From mid-1870 to the 1880s Quin Jack was running his own successful tin-mining operation in Tingha and was regularly featured in Tingha mining reports as Ah Jack and Party. These are some of the mining artefacts and tools.
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Melbourne See Yup Temple & Chen Ah Jack
A possible mention of Chen Quin Jack from his period on the Ballarat goldfields 1850s-1865, comes from records from Melbourne’s See Yup Temple
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Candle Sticks & the Joss House, Tingha
陳 觀 植 — Chen Quin Jack’s name in Chinese characters led to an important recent discovery made by Our Chinese Past members Paul McGregor and translator Ely Finch. Chen Quin Jack’s name is inscribed as the donor of these two elaborate gilt carved altar-table candlesticks which date to 1883
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