When the Harths bought their four-hectare block in Cawarral in central Queensland last year, it came with the contents of two garden sheds and a yard full of ornaments and oddities.
Cathy and Phillip Harth were not to know then, nor for some time yet, that among the dingo traps and copper pots, old-fashioned clothes irons and metal shoe stretchers, at the back of a shed full of horse blankets and saddles – gathering dust in a milk crate – were the pieces of something special.