Gold Buyer, Forest Creek
Shows a tent-store keeper buying gold from two diggers. Shop-keeping on the goldfields was often more profitable than gold-digging. This merchant, with his striped silk waistcoat, gold watch-chain and jewelled shirt-pin, is obviously doing well.
S. T. Gill, watercolour 1869
Accession number: H86.7/14
From the State Library of Victoria's Picture Collection.
