The Big Gold Pick and Pan

A named men's shed attribution is worth having. This catalogue holds only a handful – the marri peg at Bridgetown by the Grumpy Old Men, the Sale guardian owl by David Wakefield – against an enormous volume of uncredited shed work across both countries.

Grenfell's other claims are literary and criminal. Henry Lawson was born on the Grenfell goldfields in 1867, at the peak of the rush, and the Henry Lawson Festival of Arts runs every June long weekend in his memory. Bushranging in the district began in the late 1850s, before Grenfell was even proclaimed in 1867, and Ben Hall is the name most associated with the area.

So a town of a few thousand people produced the state's richest goldfield, one of Australia's defining writers, and a bushranger, all within about a decade.

The pick and pan pair sits with the Sapphire tool set and the Kelso panner in the small group of objects depicting the implements of extraction rather than the metal or the person.

Grenfell also runs an art gallery, the Wallangreen Sculpture Garden and the Endemic Garden.

The pair's dimensions and completion year are not recorded.