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Hobart, J. Walch & Sons.C early 1890's. With an ornate monochrome lettered cover printed in Leipzig Germany. Also published by Walch & Birchall in Launceston and The London Music publishing Company. According to Mackenzies' Singers of Australia (1967) Frederick Augustus Packer(1839-1902) was the grandson of the composer Nathaniel Gow and in 1852 the family emigrated to Hobart. An accomplished organist, he had in Hobart as a pupil the young Amy Sherwin (1855-1935) known internationally as the Tasmanian Nightingale. Related to the media Packer family of today. The London Music Company were only located at that address between 1890-94 and that helps date the piece. Folio size with music. Condition very good.

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