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    • EARLY MAPS >
      • The First True Map of Australia
      • Jave Le Grande
      • Vallard & Dauphin Maps
      • Early Maps of Australia
      • DUTCH MAPS >
        • 1606 Duyfken
        • 1623 Arnhem & Pera >
          • 1623 Arnhem & Pera Voyage
          • 1623 Pera - De Leeuw
          • 1859 van Dijk - Carstensz
        • 1636 Pool Expedition
        • 1644 Tasman Map
        • 1705 van Delft >
          • Pre-Cook 1705
        • 1705 Weyland
        • 1756 Gonzal Expedition
    • First Contact
    • HMS Beagle >
      • The Beagle Anchors
      • Watch Vessel No. 7
      • Beagle Well Darwin
      • Roman Villa Found in Darwin
    • Cairns & Burnt Mounds
    • D'Stretch Marks
    • Eyam - The Plague Days
    • Fakes & Forgeries >
      • Flinders by Westall >
        • William Westall {Flinders}
      • Stone Fish Traps & Mafic Dykes >
        • Australian MegaMyths
        • Bentinck & Sweers Traps
        • Mafic Dyke Swarms
        • Nightcliff Traps
        • World Heritage Dykes
    • HMAS Patricia Cam >
      • Pat Cam 75th Anniversary
      • The Men & Their Families
      • Ship's Knee MH7
      • Beattie's Yard
      • Palermo Park Dig
      • The Sandy Sanford Story
      • Pat Cam Memorial Yirrkala
      • Percy C & MM Memorial
    • MACASSANS >
      • Pobassoo Island
      • Port Bradshaw
    • Matthew Flinders - The Long Way Home >
      • Flinders & HMS Cumberland
      • Flinders Mapping
    • Miscellany >
      • Capt. Cook - Bad Hair Day
      • The Loss of HMAS Armidale
    • Mystery Objects
    • NT Fleet Review
    • NT Histroy in a Hundred Images
    • NT Image Makers & Takers >
      • Florenz Bleeser >
        • The Vic Hotel
      • Foelsche Centenary 2014
      • Ted Ryko
      • Shepherdson Collection >
        • 4. Wireless & Planes
        • 6. Boats
        • 7. Fijian Staff
      • NT Painters & Sketchers
    • OSL Beach Dating
    • Shell Mounds & Middens
    • Territory Treasures >
      • Boustead Jar
      • Dragon Rapide VH-ASK
      • Dundee Beach Swivel Gun
      • Port Essington Barks
    • Top End Timeline Ancient >
      • Top End Timeline Modern
  • ARNHEM LAND & BEYOND
    • ADELAIDE RIVER
    • COBOURG PENINSULA >
      • PM Expedition 2017
      • Fort Wellington at Raffles Bay
      • Victoria Settlement >
        • Lambrick Family Archive
        • The MacArthurs
        • Macarthur Journal
        • Port Essington Jack
        • The Tilston Collection
        • Victoria Cemetery
        • VIPs at P.E.
    • DARWIN >
      • Early Darwin >
        • Esplanade SE
        • Esplanade SW
        • Bennett Street
        • Cavanagh Street
        • Goyder's Camp & Early Darwin
        • Mitchell Street
        • Smith Street >
          • Victoria Hotel
      • The Govt. House Gun >
        • Residency Govt. House
        • Government House
      • Top End Heritage Park >
        • Darwin's Heritage Assets
        • Historic Statues
        • Pre-fabrication of Australian History
      • Bombing of Darwin
      • Channel Is. Centenary - Quarantine to Lazarette
      • Doctor's Gully >
        • ZDG Catalina Base
        • 1st Darwin Hospital
      • East Point Reserve
      • Naval Fuel Depot WW2
      • Wagait Beach
      • Z Special & Catalina Base
    • DOWN THE TRACK >
      • Coomalie Landing Ground
      • NT Expedition 1880-89
      • Overland Telegraph & Undersea Cables >
        • Daly Waters OT Stn
        • OT Pole No, 1
        • OT Stations
    • ELCHO ISLAND PORTRAIT >
      • The Elcho Island Coin
      • Elcho Past Muster - Workshops, Finds & Losses
      • Galiwin'ku Community
    • ESCAPE CLIFFS
    • GOVE PENINSULA >
      • Caledon Bay Affair
      • Catalina Beach WW2
      • Control Tower Museum
      • Gove Airfield WW2
      • Gunyangara
      • Heritage Rangers
      • Nhulunbuy
      • Wurrwurrwuy Stone Pictures
      • Yirrkala
    • GAPUWIYAK
    • GOULBURN Is. Centenary
    • GROOTE EYLANDT >
      • Alyangula
      • Angurugu >
        • Angurugu Lifeboat
      • Bickerton Island
      • Emerald River
      • Groote Rock Art >
        • Angurugu Shelter
        • Groote Rock Art 2
      • Umbakumba
    • MILINGIMBI >
      • Mission Christmas & New Year
    • OENPELLI - Gunbalanya >
      • Oenpelli Mission 1953/85
      • Oenpelli Mission -Early Days
      • Oenpelli Buffalo Days
    • RAMINGINING
    • TIMOR & Oecussi
    • TIWI ISLANDS >
      • 2016 Tiwi Expedition
      • Bathurst Island >
        • Heritage Precinct
      • Melville Island
      • Joe Cooper
      • JS Roe
      • PP King
      • Carslow Beach & the Dutch
      • Fort Dundas & Garden Point >
        • DATES 1824
        • FIVE FORTS
        • FD & Gdn Pt. Finds
        • Lady Nelson & Stedcombe
      • Macs on Melville
      • Snake Bay - Macc Weir
      • Tiwi Artefacts One >
        • Dutch Artefacts
        • MI Opium Pipes
        • FD 'Shako'
        • JS Roe Artefacts
    • TRUANT Is.
    • WESSEL ISLANDS >
      • Ancient Coins in Arnhem Land Expedition
      • Australians Bay
      • Hopefull Bay
      • Kora Kora
      • Mary Bryant Story
      • Wessels 2018 >
        • Wessels 2018 Copy
      • Wessel Islands Radar 312RS
      • Wildcard Expedition 2019
  • PastMasters Publishing
    • Arnhemland's Lost Past
    • Early Contact North Australia
    • Wooden Weir - Milikapiti
    • Claiming Australia
    • Beagle Beach Well
    • PastMasters' Papers
  • Isenberg Hoard Analysis
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  • DONATIONS
  • ECO Is. CH Summer School
  • B'stead Jar & Shell Dunes Copy

DONATIONS

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Donations may be made to:-
 BSB-015901, ACC – 329759194 - in the name of PASTMASTERS LTD - ABN 36658745058

If you use the internet or phone to make a donation, your web receipt or credit card statement will substantiate the tax deduction.
​We are more than happy to provide a receipt which will contain all the information stipulated by the ATO. Alternatively, you may call us on 0419810928 if you wish to support any specific project or are also uncertain about the finer points of DGR and we can explore it together.
Please call Mike Owen on 0419810928 or email [email protected] ​

As an approved Australian Research Institute, PastMasters can receive donations - which the the donor may then claim against their taxable income.  
PASTMASTERS LTD {ABN 36658745058} is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR)  
​covered by Item 1 in section 30 -15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

Specific Projects

If you have a particular project in mind - would like to be more directly involved and kept up to date with progress -  please let us know. It is very difficult to say exactly how much any project will cost - even stand alone memorial projects such as those for Paddy Babawun & Jack Jensen but any surplus funds they will be directed to other related events such as the recovery & reinterment of casualties and the search for the shipwreck war grave site.
Research Projects

Overheads & Expenses

We naturally have recurrent overheads such as Photoshop software, website and now 'Gift Account' audit expenses - but by far our greatest costs are remote travel and artefact analysis - especially dating and composition analysis. Whilst SEM & XRF tests are horribly expensive and time-consuming, the instruments themselves can cost as much as a Landcruiser and a good refurbished XRF gun is a tad over $20,000 but zero consumables.

DGR & Historic Finds 

In the case of donating artefacts such as swivel guns or items of historical importance against tax - there are specific rules and identified institutions such as MAGNT. We are happy to help with suggestions for accredited valuers and identification of any research or conservation work which is anticipated and could incur significant costs. Unless this work is specifically documented and funded - it is unlikely to happen.
​- GPR unit - an SEM or even an old XRD/XRF unit which we could either use ourselves or

Equipment & Handling Collections

If you are in a position to donate used equipment such as old metal detectors or archaeological equipment to pass on to Ranger Orgs out bush please call. Our aim is to provide Ranger Orgs with a handling collection of the things they are likely to encounter - case bottle prunts & bases - WW2 ammunition - Dutch VOC & pre-decimal coinage - ballast stones - pottery sherds etc.

Unwanted or Uneasy Artefacts

If you happen to have inherited any artefacts, stone tools, or even images of old people, missions or rock art which you would like to get back to the relevant community we can assists with identification, contacts and advice. If you have souvenirs of WW2 aircraft tags or bits of pottery and artefacts from the early forts or Telegraph & Railway lines - we can help to identify and pass them on to the relevant groups or individuals. At the very least they will be most useful in the Handling Collections - anything is better than taking them to the dump.

The banner image was taken at Elcho Island up near the church where the old council offices stood. We had gathered a handful of loose change with the idea of seeding the ground and letting the kids have a go with the metal detectors. As it turned out, there were coins everywhere and the kids were like crazed emus hoovering them up with great delight that turned to disappointment next day at the store when they tried to buy sweets with pre-decimal pennies. The number and spread of early decimal coins >1966 suggests that a barrel of the new coins was sent out for education purposes and either dropped from Sheppy's plane or fired from a cannon - perhaps they still used Mission Money.
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