A Seagull??? The only seagull you'll find in good old 'Oz' is of the "winged rat" variety. Great for throwing rocks at - but obnoxious to have to put up with.

Great fortune on your purchase - a true gem - it's always kinda nice to find these things when you least expect it.

While living up in the country in Victoria, I taught, for a time in a VERY small private college - they had no music program at all so I just used to "jam" with the kids at lunch-times and after school (just drums and guitars & a bit of keyboard - drums & keyboard by kids - NOT me !!! No talent there; simply encouraging them with enthusiasm and my love of music to explore something other than rock 'n' roll.

Located an old music-store in a back room where they had some instruments mouldering away with disuse - couldn't use them but didn't want anyone else to have them either; stingey bastards!

However, over the course of a few weeks (knowing that the local , grossly underfunded Primary School NEEDED equipment for their EXCELLENT music program) I wheedled and cajoled a couple of really clapped out guitars and a half-a-dozen shabby-looking violins (2 x 3/4's and the rest full-size) out of them and took them to the head teacher at the Primary School. Fortunately he was kinda handy with instruments and restored them for the kids and wonder of wonders, two of the full-size violins were 19th century, created in Italy and had BEAUTIFUL sound.

As far as I know the kids that learned on them and progressed were presented with their refurbished instruments before they went to high school at their Primary Graduation.

The small, selfish private school went bust a few years after I left and was bought out and turned into a nudist camp of all things - and the music resources that they had when they sold the place??? They burned them all on a bonfire rather than pass them on with the property from what I was told later. They burned a lot of stuff that could've been passed on to others: Mongrels! Selfish, bloody mongrels!