Maurice Helm b. 1809

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Lithographer and engraver, was a native of Germany who arrived in Melbourne in April 1849 and set up a short-lived engraving and lithography business. His only known work is an advertisement for coffee.
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lithographer and engraver, was a native of Saxony (Germany) who arrived at Melbourne in April 1849 in the Dockenhuden. He set up an engraving and lithography business in Swanston Street with T.P. Hentschel, but the partnership was dissolved on 15 July 1850 and each briefly continued on his own. A circular by 'M. Helm & Co. Melbourne’ advertises the coffee sold at Nicholson’s three Melbourne wholesale and retail grocery establishments (c.1850, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria) with a fanciful illustration of the daily coffee-grinding and roasting on the premises 'by the newly invented steam Apparatus’ manufactured by Sir Hans Sloane in London, together with a portrait of Britannia seated next to a kettle. This is Helm’s only known pictorial work.

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1992
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