BHP Newcastle: First Rail and Executive Photographs

A photo of the BHP Newcastle steelworks' first rail rolled in…
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A photo of the BHP Newcastle steelworks' first rail rolled in 1915 in a handsome blackwood frame, 67 x 60 cm overall, together with a photograph of the executives of BHP from a similar period in a handsome fiddle-back blackwood frame, 72 x 47 cm overall

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  • Blackwood - One of the best known and most widely used Australian timbers, blackwood (acacia melanoxylon), is a member of the Acacia (wattle) family and grows in eastern Australia from about Adelaide in South Australia, as far north as Cairns in Queensland.

    The largest, straightest and tallest trees come from the wet forest and swamps of north-west Tasmania where it is grown commercially.

    Blackwood timber colours range across a wide spectrum, from a very pale honey colour through to a dark chocolate with streaks of red tinge.

    The hardwood timber has been commonly used in the production of furniture, flooring, and musical instruments in Australia from the late 19th century. However, the straight grain timber is not the most prized or valuable, that honour falls to blackwood with a wavy, fiddleback pattern, which is used both in the solid and as a veneer. Fiddleback was only used on the finest examples of furniture.

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