97-year old wedding cake!
And by far, it’s the oldest wedding cake ever found that still looks good! I don’t know if it’s still edible though. According to reports, while cataloguing the Ararat’s Langi Morgala Museum’s thousands of historical items, volunteers uncovered a piece of wedding cake posted to the region in 1911. The cake, still wrapped in wax paper and housed in a metal tin, was posted in a cupid wedding cake box to a J Hamilton at Tatyoon via Ararat in 1911.
Inside the tin, a card announced the marriage of Mr and Mrs Tim McInerney on May 24, 1911. While the postmark is not clear enough to determine where the cake was posted from, the five pence stamp indicates it was posted from somewhere in Australia. The piece of cake remains intact, with the artefact as a whole showing little signs of deterioration.
I have the whole top of my wedding cake . Used it for our 25th and rewrapped it to save it for our 50th. We are married now 44 yrs. and the cake is still in the freezer. I still have about 25 napkins with our names and date August 1st, 1964 and the topper of the cake. Just wanted to share this with you. Tks. Cynthia Drda
The cake in the tin was sent to my husbands great grandfather John James Hamilton in Tatyoon. It was sent from Mr Timothy & Mrs Elizabeth Margaret (Carter) McInerney. Elizabeth and my husbands Great Grand mother Martha were sisters. Timothy was also the son of Timothy McInerney whom married Lavinia Rees (stepdaughter) of John James father Thomas James Hamilton of Tatyoon. It’s great to see a piece of the family history preserved and past on to others. Of course the wrapping and quality of the cake has made this possible.