John Wilson Carey, cabinetmaker and saw-miller, Yvonne Barber
Abstract:
While David Bedford has analysed two extant examples of veneered Queensland desks made by J W Carey, Yvonne Barber
provides biographical information about this man devoted to the Queensland timber industry, who remarked that ‘taking a
man like him from his business was like taking a rudder out of a ship.’ After starting out ‘on the tools’ as a cabinetmaker in the
1860s and 1870s – for which he will be best remembered – Carey moved on to become a saw-mill proprietor, a contractor
constructing prefabricated buildings and an inventor.
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