George Richard Addis, watchmaker and jeweller: his Victorian and Tasmanian years, Michel Reymond

Article from Vol 38 no 2, May 2016

George Richard Addis, watchmaker and jeweller: his Victorian and Tasmanian years, Michel Reymond

Abstract:

George Richard Addis (1864–1937) is best known as one of Western Australia’s leading late 19th- and early 20th-century goldfields jewellers, whose Western Australian work has been documented by Dorothy Erickson.1 Many jewellers however worked in different colonies, and here Michel Reymond records for the first time Addis’s family background and his work in the eastern colonies.

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