Sydney Royal Agricultural Society Show (The Royal Show), in a walnut shell. Unknown. [Sydney]. 1920.

Sydney Royal Agricultural Society Show (The Royal Show), in a walnut shell. Unknown. [Sydney]. 1920. Antique Miniature Postcard Photograph Souvenir in a Real Walnut. Concertina strip of 11 different views together with good well wishes rhymes etc opposite. Lacking very first tiny printed segment that should read, ‘With Best Wishes from Sydney Australia.’ Photographs each measure approx 1 inch x 0.75"". Real walnut measures approx 4cm 1.5"" max. Remnants of a contemporary attached brown luggage label and printed on one side is “Cole’s P…” and on the verso “[Copyr]ight”. It looks like an advert for a contemporary commercial sponsor but not Coles Emporium, Melbourne, in its self a major tourist attraction and associated with various novelties at the time. Possibly made as a souvenir for the Royal Agricultural Society Show (The Royal Show), a major event held in Sydney in the same year this object is said to have been made – 1920. Illawarra Historical Society has the only other copy I can trace https://tinyurl.com/5x4wy2ph .A rare surviving souvenir/tourism item from a exhibition event or agricultural show in the 1920 original walnut shell. 134 firsts2024