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1967 Totem Pole Candle 18 cm tall in the form of Henry Bolte as…
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Melbourne
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17-Jun-2021
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1967 Totem Pole Candle 18 cm tall in the form of Henry Bolte as all three of the Wise Monkeys (Hear No Evil/See No Evil/Speak No Evil) produced to protest the hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967. Fascinating item of Victorian history & surely a rare survivor. [ Ronald Joseph Ryan was convicted of murder of a prison warder and sentenced to death by hanging; his execution was the last legal hanging in Australia and was carried out inside the walls of Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, while a mass protest & vigil was taking place outside; Henry Bolte was the take-no-nonsense Premier of Victoria who refused to commute Ryan's sentence]
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