Tableware

Date: 1950s-1980s

From: Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-703

Description: Rewi Alley with Youxie leaders, Ma Haide, James Bertram, Han Suyin among others Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1920

By: Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1920-01

Description: Includes advertisements and illustrations for items on sale at Kirkcaldie & Stains, Wellington. Includes soft furnishings, clothing, millinery, Indian lace, embroidered edgings, handkerchiefs, veils, gloves, socks, haberdashery, art jewellerypatent medicines and toilet preparations, handbags, china, glassware, tableware, cutlery, and needlework novelties. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sales catalogue of 48 pages, 272 x 215 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Les Cleveland, Wellington, in 1965.

Date: 1917

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; ironmongery (including garden tools), cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); enamelled ware; crockery and glassware; woodware; bedding; tents; churns and separators. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages (first 8 pages missing), each 243 x 155 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 2000 - 2001

Reference: Eph-A-DINING-2000-01

Description: Shows a cubist illustration of a woman reading a book. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on cover of menu.. Physical Description: Relief print on paper napkin, 300 x 300 mm.

Date: 1981

Reference: Eph-D-CERAMICS-1981-01

Description: Shows an abstract bowl design. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on poster 587 x 375 mm.

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: 1904

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1904-01

Description: Arrangement of text and list of the departments which have specials: Furniture, Sundries, Bedsteads, Table linens, Linoleums, Carpets and rugs, Curtains, Crockery and sundries. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Evening Post Print -7531. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 760 x 510 mm.

Date: 1905 - 1910

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to work and exhibitions by potters and ceramic sculptors in New Zealand]

By: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-CERAMICS-1905-01

Description: Sales catalogue for products of the company, including illustrations of china clocks, vases, dinner sets, bed pans, pots, and pets' dishes. Lithographs by Savage, lithographers, Burslem. Other Titles - Catalogue Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and lithographs, on pages 225 x 143 mm.

Date: 1938

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-033

Description: Shows an interior scene with a wicker chair with blue cushion, beside a small wooden gate-legged occasional table with lathed legs. There is a fabric-covered footrest at the left. The table is set with a china teapot small jug and sugar bowl, and a cup and saucer, all in blue and white. There is also a small vase containing two red poppies. Out the window at the top right is a glimpse of a green hillside dotted with houses. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 174 x 253 mm.

Date: 1970

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to interior decoration, room design, household decorative items, tableware, in New Zealand]

By: Colonial Brass Company

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1970s-01

Description: Pricelist issued by the Colonial Brass Company of Victoria Street, Cambridge shows illustrations on the cover of brass ornaments (horses, dogs, eagles), keys, fireside ware (firedogs, tongs and forks), knockers, decorative panels, handles, saddlery (horse brasses, etc), plaques, knives, and ornaments, including a nutcracker in the shape of an alligator. Attached is a price list in dollars. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print and typescript on two sheets, 330 x 213 mm.

Date: 1908 - 1912

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: Robert Rew (Firm); Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-03

Description: Mail order catalogue for the Country Order department of a retail store in Auckland. Merchandise is listed in the following categories: grocery, provisions, patent medicines, toilet requisites, stationery, ironmongery, rattan bamboo & rush furniture, china glassware and crockery, Japanese (mainly tableware), boots and shoes, woven wire mattresses, flax and kapok mattresses, manures, agricultural seeds, garden and vegetable seeds, separators, children's page (with confectionery and Christmas stockings) Other Titles - Three Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 56 pages, 248 x 155 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1985

From: "Unity for strength, the trade union movement in New Zealand". Waikato Museum of Art & History, May 1 - June 23, 1990. [Posters and printed material for an exhibition]

By: Working Women's Resource Centre (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-LABOUR-UFS-Women-1980s-01

Description: Poster shows a photograph of a women worker in a factory with piles of plates and other tableware. The text reflects on the efforts of union women to achieve overtime pay, stopwork meetings, tea breaks, work clothes, equal pay, three weeks holiday, wage rises, job delegates, maternity leave, sick pay, lunch breaks, sexual harassment procedures. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 420 x 297 mm.

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: 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: 1905

By: Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1905-01

Description: Flier announcing the opening of new departments within this department store. Lists merchandise in categories of table cutlery, nickel silverware, and electro-plated goods. The flier has an art nouveau border. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Letterpress on flier, 255 x 190 mm.

Date: 1926 - 1927

By: Farmers' Trading Company; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1926-01

Description: Illustrated mail order sales catalogue for the Farmers' Trading Company store in Auckland gives ordering instructions and rail freight details. Merchandise includes sewing machines, phonographs, radiola, furniture and carpets, motorcycles and bicycles, made to measure clothing, Wolseley cream separator, pedal cars on the roof of the Farmers', aluminiumware, banking, bedding, shoes, phonographs, crockery, cutlery, tableware, lampware, linoleum (2 colour plates on one loose sheet), grocery, haberdashery, horse and cow covers, milking machines, musical instruments, paints, patent medicines, pianos, poultrykeepers' supplies, saddlery, seeds, spray pumps, tools, toys, tents, wallpapers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 580 pages, 267 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased from A & S Gallagher, in 2011.

Date: 1910

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; crockery and glassware (illustrations); ironmongery cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); woodware; basketware; fencing wires; tents; manures, horse covers. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, each 242 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1915

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: R W Gallaugher Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1915-01

Description: Sales catalogues for the general merchant R W Gallaugher of Victoria Street West, Auckland. Lists goods in the following categories: Groceries and provisions; patent medicines, pills, ointments, toilet requisites; crockery and glassware (illustrations); toilet ware; dinner ware; ironmongery (including garden tools), cutlery, lamps (illustrated); electroplated ware; aluminium ware and tinware (illustrated); enamelled ware; woodware; basketware; fencing wires; tents; churns and separators, cow covers; post-hole borers; manures, horse covers. Quantity: 1 catalogue. Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages, each 235 x 152 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Maison Jolie in 2004.

Date: 1930 - 1943

By: W J Rainger (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1940-01

Description: Each page shows a photograph of an arrangement of gifts for sale: ceramic jug and basin, figurines and cut-glassware, ornamental clock, jugs, vases, cutlery. The style includes art deco elements. Some photographic illustrations are in colour and some in black and white. Dated by style, and known dates of operation of W J Rainger firm, which may have ended ca 1943. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sales catalogue of 8 leaves, 220 x 288 mm.

Date: 1879-1985

From: James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops

Reference: PAColl-3332-02

Description: James Smith Christmas parades ca 1970s-1980s, Prime Minister Keith Holyoake and Mrs Holyoake at a James Smith anniversary in the 1960s, shop interiors including views of a display of Rosenthall Studio porcelain tableware dating from the 1960s, and a photo of James Smith shop after the fire of 1879. Quantity: 90 b&w original photographic print(s).