Uploaded July 2017 | Updated September 2026, 11 minutes ago

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In this video, Barbara from the Lightning Ridge Historical Society has a mystery object...it's made from wood, it's hand-carved, and it's a piece of mining history. Can you figure out what it is?

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Welcome to Fine Details Preserved -- a little series of videos featuring awesome items from the collections of the Australian Opal Centre and the Lightning Ridge Historical Society. In this series we'll look at some incredible objects ranging from opalised fossils to opal mining heritage items to strange mystery objects that will make you wonder.

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