Jewellery

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-080

Description: Half-length view of two New Guinean men. Man on left has jacket opened showing a bare chest, a cigarette in his mouth and an ear ring visible on one ear as he is slightly turned towards the man on right who has a small beard and is fully clothed. Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 37 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 240 x 330 mm on sheet 340 x 510 mm

Date: 1994

From: Arts Marketing Board of Aotearoa New Zealand :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5024-1

Description: 'Little Jewels' was an exhibition put on by the Arts Marketing Board of Aotearoa New Zealand in 1994 as part of the International Festival of Arts. Quantity: 13 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1910 - 1930

By: Stewart Dawson & Company; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-SD-1910/1930

Description: Lists goods for sale, including jewellery, cutlery, watches, teapots, silver tableware, clocks, hair brushes, trinket boxes, cut glass ware. One catalogue dated 1923-24 appears to be the middle one in date. The earliest catalogue mentions only a Wellington store, but the later ones mention Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin stores. Quantity: 3 album(s). Physical Description: Volumes, each approximately 245 x 180 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland in 1965.

Date: 1870 - 1880

By: K, M (Artist), active 1870s?; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-012-037

Description: Queen Kamamalu with ostrich feather and draped turban, curled hair, earrings and necklaces and elegant dress Artist's initials may be N K, not M K Other Titles - [Hawaiian Queen Kamamalu in European dress] In box entitled: English and European engravings from the Webster Collection. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Tamehamalu M K [or N K?]; Verso - Webster collection 1350 [Stamp] Possibly the original drawing for a closely-related engraving, reference number A-041-012 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on cream wove card 218 x 180 mm Processing information: Formerly catalogued as a Tahitian woman, by N K, 1890s, and as a photolithograph.

Date: 1861

From: Simpson, William, 1823-1899 :Sketchbook. India, Madras, Bombay and voyage home. 1861-1862.

Reference: E-063-002

Description: Portraits of two Indian girls showing head and shoulders. Both girls are wearing jewellery on their head, earrings, nose studs, and necklaces. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, page size 78 x 138 mm

Date: 1984

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to jewellery]

By: Bustin, Debra, 1957-

Reference: Eph-A-JEWELLERY-1984-01/06

Description: Cards show abstract designs in red, white, blue and black, all with the same wording, but in different compositions. Publication date supplied by Jenny Neligan, manager Bowen Gallery, in 2014. Quantity: 6 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints on cards, each around 215 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Clare Murphy, Wellington, in 2014.

Date: 2014

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to jewellery]

Reference: Eph-A-JEWELLERY-2014-01

Description: Booklet accompanying a jewellery exhibition shows photographs of a "Moghul" necklet, Ward ladies cameo, Fox Fraser cameos, cameos in honour of Monica Brewster (nee Govett, 1886-1973), mourning brooch for a cat called Sooty. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 105 x 85 mm, inside black envelope 115 x 84 mm.

Date: 10-24 Aug 1998 - 10 Aug 1998 - 24 Aug 1998

From: Southland oral history project

By: Cairns, Beth, active 1991; Warburton, Warren Gilbert, 1921-

Reference: OHInt-0464/18

Description: Warren Warburton was born in Invercargill in 1921. Recalls his childhood in the suburb of Heidelberg and his schooling. Mentions local small farms, Chinese gardeners, rabbiting and ferrets. Discusses home deliveries of bread, fish and milk. Talks about playing cricket and being a junior representative. Describes going to the Dunedin Exhibition [1926]. Talks about the drowning of his brother Len in 1925 while rowing on the estuary. Mentions his mother was a foundation member of the croquet club and his brother Lloyd was a mountaineer. Talks about his other brothers Wally, Ralph and Allan. Discusses the establishment by his father, Cuth Warburton, of the family jewellery business in 1913 and his retirement in 1944. Talks about the Gore branch of the firm. Mentions buying Campbell's Jewellers, other jewellery shops trading in Invercargill, repairing watches and clocks, records kept and family members in the business. Interviewer(s) - Beth Cairns Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008621 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other brief abstract OHA-2695. Photos of Warren Warburton in 1942 (at Burnham) and in 1998

Date: [circa 1880s]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

By: Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6056-04

Description: Photographs taken by Pulman's photographic studio and other unidentified photographers, circa 1880s. Shows whakairo, Māori carvings, mostly made in wood as well as stone and bone. One image is a photo-mechanical print showing two Indigenous Australians. Also includes one photograph taken at an unidentified tangihanga at an unidentified location. Many photographs are annotated on the reverse, some inscriptions applied by the Library. Title supplied by Library. Hei whakamōhio: He whakaahua o ngā kōiwi tangata i roto i tēnei taonga. Please be aware this item contains images of human remains. Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 Other printed ephemera item(s). Provenance: Prints were originally interfiled within a photograph album compiled by Stephenson Percy Smith and later owned by Jock McEwen. Transfers: Separated from album at Library reference PA1-o-2072.. Processing information: Description updated October 2023. Prints were originally loose, interfiled within a photograph album. Separated for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1901

By: Stewart Dawson & Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-SD-1901-01

Description: Catalogue lavishly illustratrated with engravings of gold brooches, necklets, pendants, chains, gold charms, gold crosses, gold bracelets, engagement rings, dress rings, greenstone jewellery (including fish shape, "Kia ora" pendants and brooches, tiki and other Maori motifs, kiwi, heart shapes), ladies' and gentlemen's watches, bracelet watches, scarf pins, lockets, gold and silver medals, fruit knives, pen handles, tobacco pouches, cigarette cases, silver hairbrushesgents' dressing cases, opera glasses, pocket knives, inkstands, napkin rings, jewel cases, cut glass boxes, powder puff boxes, perfume bottles, hair brushes and combs, hand bags, photo frames, mantle clocks, silver trophies and rose bowls, candlesticks, silver trays and tureens, teas sets, teapots, silver kettles, silver cake baskets, bon bon dishes, biscuit boxes, salad bowls, sauce boats, cut glass cruet sets, cheese dishes, honey or jam jars, butter dishes and knives, knives and serving spoons, curlery sets, canteens of cutlery. The catalogue has the date 1901 written on the front cover. The catalogue may date from 1901 or earlier. A Dunedin branch of Stewart Dawsons is mentioned, and "Stones Dunedin and Suburban Directory" for 1885 has an advertisement on page 441 for Stewart Dawsons at 34 Princes St Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, 244 x 185 mm.

Date: 2017

Reference: Eph-C-ARTS-2017-01

Description: Double-sided poster shows on one side an all-over pattern or crafted eyes on a blue sky background. The verso has explanatory text beneath two images of "Quito brooch" and "Vul" brooch, both made in 2017. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of poster 420 x 297 mm.

Date: [ca 1913 to 1914], [ca 1960s]-2011

From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10645-23

Description: Contains prints of scenes relating to Les Cleveland, his family life and photographic interests, circa 1913 to 1914, 1960s to 2000s. Photographs taken by Les Cleveland. Includes photographs of the Cleveland and Porter families in Martinborough, a portrait of Les Cleveland, and Peter, Donna, Mary, and Edward Cleveland with a dog [husky?]. Unidentified people include a young woman, cafe patrons seated indoors and outdoors at Pātaka Museum and Art Gallery in Porirua, and an unidentified group with a snow plough. A group portrait shows the Coal Miners' Ball Committee, circa 1913 to 1914. Wellington buildings are also photographed, including the Chinese church on Frederick Street, a sign saying "Jesus Loves the All Blacks" outside St John's Church on Willis Street (also contains an accompanying news article), and the ruins of the Miramar Gasworks. Three contact sheet strips show scenes from Mussel Point, West Coast, including children at Carter's settlement (including playing on swings at a playground) and two women working in the Carters' Sawmill Store at Hannah's Clearing in Haast. West Coast images show milled logs, horseback riders, a slip being cleared by a bulldozer, and men from Nolan's Mill drinking and smoking and playing with a dog. Also, six frames show Native American jewellers selling jewellery at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, United States of America. Original enclosures (mainly print wallets) have been retained with prints. The imagelab photo wallet includes a commercial photographer's receipts and notes from Cleveland to the lab technician. Title supplied by Library. Negative of the photograph of the Coal Miners' Ball Committee print is at Alexander Turnbull Library 1/2-012633-F. Arrangement: Prints arrived at the library in a file box in no discernible order. Prints were stored with negatives in photo wallets or kept together by folds of paper or paper clips. Quantity: 26 colour original photographic print(s). 25 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Colour and black and white photographs Transfers: See 35mm-109250 to 35mm-109262, 35mm-109307 to 35mm-109311, 35mm-109806 to 35mm-109814, 35mm-109820 to 35mm-109822, 1/4-133735-F, and 1/4-133736-F for negatives originally stored with these prints.. Processing information: Negatives have been separated from prints and original enclosures to facilitate appropriate storage.

Date: 1916

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the company which merged in 1918 with the Farmers' Union Trading Company, to become the Farmers' Trading Company. Inside front cover shows a calendar for the last part of 1915, and January-September 1916. There is a foreword by company founder Robert Laidlaw, photographs of the Auckland sales staff, photographs of the showrooms of each department and portraits of the staff who ran them; photographs of office staff at work and the shop equipment (entrance stairs, elevator, employees dining room, currant cleaner and raisin stemmer, the packing department), and an illustration of the warehouse on the corner of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. There follows an advertisement for the company's book of plans and specifications for houses, and an account of the way the war was affecting prices and supplies of goods (See pages 18-21). Information about ordering, paying and freighting follow. The illustrated catalogue of goods is arranged in the following sections: grocery, patent medicines, ironmongery, tools and household ironmongery, stoves (Dover, Orb, Zealandia, Champion), sheep shearing machine, roofing iron, tinware, enamelware, cutlery, aluminium, brushware, handbags, pipes, wallpaper (with 2 colour sample pages), stationery, books, cameras, rifles and pistols (guns), tennis rackets, bicycles, telephones, gramophones, violins, electroplated goods, jewellery, watches, clocks, windmills, pumps, buggies and wagons, engines, ploughs, crockery (2 colour plates), lamps, saddlery and harnesses, luggage, boots and shoes, clothing, hats, drapery, haberdashery, lace, rugs, sewing machines, furniture, linoleums (2 colour plates), toys (including Meccano). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 500 pages, each 277 x 220 mm, blue paper covers, bound in brown suede with gilt lettering Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 33

Date: 2011

By: Cook, Octavia, 1978-

Reference: Eph-E-JEWELLERY-2011-01

Description: Poster (folded) promoting exhibitions of jewellery by Octavia Cook in Auckland and Amsterdam, shows photographs of cameos, rings and other jewellery. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital prints on both sides of poster 840 x 595 mm. Transfers: Other ephemera related to this exhibition was donated by Anna Miles Gallery in 2012 and is housed at Eph-A-ARTS-2011.

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-079

Description: Half-length view of two New Guinean men. Man on left has jacket opened showing a bare chest, a cigarette in his mouth and an ear ring visible on one ear as he is slightly turned towards the man on right who has a small beard and is fully clothed. Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 37 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Inscriptions: Recto - A Chazal Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 380 mm on sheet 250 x 380 mm

Date: 1966 - 2003

Reference: Eph-C-PEOPLE-Bartel-2003

Description: Poster and invitation card relating to Susan Bartel's 60th birthday party, held on 23rd June 2003 at the National Library, Wellington. Also includes a page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of Sunday, May 1, 1966, featuring the photograph Susan used for her invitation and poster. The Seattle newspaper item is a promotion for the "Season for fine jewellery", and beside Susan's photograph is a quotation: "When first she gleamed upon my sight, a lovely apparition ...". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (poster). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (news item and invitation). Physical Description: Photolithgraphs and digital copies, sizes varying Provenance: Purchased from Susan Bartel, Kelburn, in November 2003 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PH-2004-017.

Date: 2005

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to jewellery]

By: Cook, Octavia, 1978-

Reference: Eph-A-JEWELLERY-2005-01

Description: Promotional kit for an art exhibition of jewellery by Octavia Cook. Square package contains eight photographs of works by the artist, and a price list in the form of an auction sales result sheet. Packaged in a black paper envelope with teal coloured "ribbon" (photographed) around it. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, in package, 125 x 125 mm. Provenance: Deposited on Legal Deposit, 2005.

Date: 1982

By: Kent, David Robinson, 1946-2013; Webster, Christine, 1958-

Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1982-01

Description: An exhibition catalogue with a set of eight postcards featuring work by the contributing designers: Pat Grummet (Australia) (scarf), Lyn Tune (Australia) (shoulder piece), Robyn Gordon (Australia) (Barrier Reef splash - necklace), Carlier Magikawa (Australia) (spring pins), Kerrie Hughes (NZ) (cactus dress), Owen Mapp (NZ) (ivory amulet and bracelet), Carol Tippet (Australia) (knitted sweater), Valerie Hunton (NZ) (hand-dyed silk dress and jacket). Other exhibitors included New Zealanders Tanya Ashken, Marion Chasteau, Ngila Dickson, Warwick Freeman, Elena Gee, Gavin Hitchings, Susan Holmes, Diane Jennings, Patrica Morgan, Christabel Wylie. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Spiral bound booklet, 210 x 130 mm, in clear plastic container with coiled plastic handle, bag dimensions 255 x 185 mm. Provenance: Donated by Frances Bennington, Wellington, in 2004.

Date: [1914-1955]

From: Riddiford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5714-091

Description: Comprises new list of jewellery etc compiled by Johnston & Co (1942); list of parcels posted at Auckland to Great Britain (1945); letter re new supply of knickers, Debenham & Freebody (1953); account from Whitcombe & Tombs; letter re chintz availability (1952); planting plan by Kelway & Son, Langport, Somerset, for Kensington Square (1928); quotation from Cardinal Mercier (1914); children's first communion, extract from the Decree; pattern for caps to wear under steel helmets; copy of letter from ?Soffy Pharazyn or ?Ella, describing the Napier earthquake (1931); payments made by Lloyd & Armstrong (1935); list of furniture and effects (valued); prescription (1931); list of jewellery for trustees (1939); D & J Wellby re missing flask (1955); John Connell & Co re policy for travel on the `Rangitata' (1952) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2000 - 2002

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to jewellery]

Reference: Eph-A-JEWELLERY-2000-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue of copper embossed and polished bracelets, magnetic bracelets, gold or silver plate over copper, magnetic stretch bracelets and magnetic necklaces. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photocopies in booklet of 19 pages, 213 x 150 mm.