Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: 16; through image in pencil: C…lls collection of mechanical figures; label in ink: A political squib connected with the Provincial Council election of 1853. Cap. Cargill the showman.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J. Brown; through image in pencil: Superintendency, Separation, Otago Province, Mataura; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Refers to the disastrous separation of Southland from the Province of Otago of which it formed…