When colourful jeweller and gold dealer Peter Davis died in 2017, he left behind thousands of pieces of antique jewellery, coins, bullion, and wristwatches locked away in four safes nestled in the bowels of Melbourne’s famous Manchester Unity Building.
It took a full day of drilling to get inside the decades-old safes. Inside were thousands of pieces belonging to one of Melbourne’s most prominent jeweller families, which had been operating since the late 1800s.
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