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Collectable cards inserted in cigarette packaging were popular from the late 19th century to the 1940s. Designed to encourage the collection of entire sets, they were issued in themed series such as plants, wildlife and sports and theatre stars. This…

Stool used by Rose Grainger in her home with her son Percy Grainger. Rose probably purchased this stool in New York, in the period 1915-1920s.
Carved Rosewood Chinese stool with inlaid marble top, Approx 40 x 40 x 40cm

Elaborate beaded headdress

DESCRIPTION: Oblong, hinged lid, on four ball-shaped legs. Inscribed brass plaque on inside lid (see Inscriptions). Currently contains 7 silver-coloured large beads. Inside it is another box, cardboard, also with an inscribed lid.
INSCRIPTIONS: On…

1. Box containing PG and RG hair
2.A lock of Percy Grainger's hair, yellow blonde in colour and tied with a red ribbon. Sent to the museum in an elaborate handmade cardboard envelope. Other Information: Stored with original cardboard packaging.

Box which contained Ella Grainger's hair;
Ella Grainger's hair from shoulder to waist length, cut off by RIche LTD. 14 Hay Hill Berkely Square, London W.1. in order to give to Grainger Museum, The University of melbourne ( cut off Sept. 20 1948)

Iron, wood, steel, ivory, ebony, nails.

Keen to explore the possibilities of Free Music, but lacking instruments that would readily play the ‘noteless’ gliding tones it required, Grainger and Cross modified existing instruments to make…