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Lot 4806    Session 17 - (11:30am Friday 3rd August)    Uniforms & Accoutrements

Estimate $80
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $80

VICTORIA, unknown militia (?) unit, late 1800s, belt and buckle in bronze features a central Queen Victoria crown with outer band details, 'Nil.Desperandum.Victoria'. Fine.

Nil Desperandum is Latin for Do Not Despair. There is a Nil Desperandum Mine in Victoria located about 100 kms west of Melbourne on the Yarrowee River. It was worked from 1864-1889 and again from 1906 and 1917.

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