Lady Bowen's Irish harp brooch - a Queensland colonial treasure rediscovered, Dianne Byrne

Article from Vol 38 no 1, Feb 2016

Lady Bowen's Irish harp brooch - a Queensland colonial treasure rediscovered, Dianne Byrne

Abstract:

In our May 2015 issue, Dianne Byrne identified a brooch presented in 1867 to Lady Bowen, wife of Queensland’s first Governor, in a photograph held in the National Library. Further detective work has revealed that the brooch is still held by Lady Bowen’s descendants in England. We illustrate it now for the first time.

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