Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Pears are still one of the few fruit that can be easily bought according to variety. The corella is a pear developed in the Barossa Valley from seed brought by German settlers. It’s a small to medium pear with golden to red streaked skin. Delicious firm and soft, it has an almost tropical flovour and is good for eating and cooking. The packham is another Australian variety and a very common world cultivator. A large and often bumpy pear, it is slow ripening and is available for most of the year. The versatile and populat Bartlett, also called a William or Duchess, is often the choice for production, such as canning and used to make the French Poire Williams, a delicious very boozy eau di vie (brandy), which is great as a digestive.
Beurre bosc are a very attractive pear, a russet brown colour with a