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Signapore (sic)
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Walter Spinks (sailor, HMS Myrmidon)
Title
Signapore (sic)
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English: Singapore

Page from an album of watercolours and pencil drawings from the voyage of survey ship HMS Myrmidon by sailor Walter Spinks, en route from England to the Australia Station via South East Asia
Spinksː The New South Wales Police Gazette for 24 March 1886, listed him as a deserter and described him as a ship's painter; "SPINKS, Walter. HMS Myrmidon. Deserter, at Melbourne, on the 10th instant. Painter, 2nd class, two badges, 30 yrs, 5'5 ½", fair complexion, light brown hair, blue eyes".

Lot number: /24633/lot/67/ 21 Mar 2018
Depicted place Darwin, Northern Territory
Date circa 1886
date QS:P571,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium watercolour and pencil
Dimensions 26 x 42.5cm (10 1/4 x 16 3/4in).
Source/Photographer https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24633/lot/67/
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