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Date: 1992 - 1999

By: Steinlager (Firm); Wellington (N.Z.). City Council; New Zealand Post Office

Reference: Eph-E-BOAT-1990s

Description: Includes posters: The America's Cup. In San Diego everyone wants to sink the favourite. Steinlager, premier sponsor New Zealand challenge America's Cup 1992. (2 copies) Bank of New Zealand America's Cup Supporters Club. New Zealand's challenge 1992 America's Cup San Diego. Challenger Elimination Series racing schedule [with illustration by Hanrahan] (2 copies) Bank of New Zealand America's Cup Supporters Club. The quest for the Cup; your guide to the races of the 1992 America's Cup challenge. Lambton Harbour. National Dragon Boat Festival. 25 & 26 February 1995. Admission $5. (2 copies) New Zealand Post. Congratulations! Team New Zealand. Victory 1995 stamp on sale now. Limited stocks available. Sunday Star Times yachting special. Steinlager Unconditional supporters. [1999-2000 America's Cup]. 1999. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying below 1020 mm. Provenance: Two items donated by Owen Spearpoint from the estate of Brian Edward Spearpoint, 2014.

Date: 1982

By: New Zealand Post Office

Reference: Eph-D-PHILATELY-1982-01

Description: Shows 101 New Zealand stamps arranged in a shape flowing from the left side and separating into two circles. The lower circle contains a map of New Zealand. The upper circle partly encloses four of the stamps which are displayed larger than the rest. These four portray the four seasons: Spring (Lambs and daffodils on a Wairarapa farm), Summer (Kaiteriteri Beach), Autumn (St Omar Park, Queenstown), and Winter (Mt Ngauruhoe and surroundings under snow) (identified on http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz, retrieved 14 August 2009). Date identified by date of stamp issue. The "Seasons" stamps were issued in 1982. A poster using a similar concept was designed by Reg Nicholls ca 1973. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 810 x 535 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Dunbar Sloane auction, 13 August 2009, lot 360.

Date: 1986

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-362-112/138

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 27 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1965 - 1975

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; New Zealand. Government Printing Office

Reference: B-131-01-012

Description: A set of 14 New Zealand one-cent stamps showing the Chatham Islands mollymawk, head and shoulders and in fligth. Stamp design by Eileen Mayo. Quantity: 14 photolithographs. Physical Description: Offset photolithography, 26 x 42 mm on perforated sheet 190 x 97 mm Provenance: Donation: Eileen Mayo, Christchurch, 1994

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-004

Description: A series of vignettes making comic suggestions about a range of current topics, starting with the implications of an Anglo-German friendship league and an Anglo-American arbitration treaty. The figures depicted include George V shaking hands with Kaiser Bill, 'The new John Bull' dressed in top hat and the Stars and Stripes, references to William Massey, Herries 'Sir Wilfrid' and Sir Joseph Ward, references to penny postage in Australia and to the growing population of the North Island vs the South Island and their respective electoral representation Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 530 x 403 mm

Date: 1982

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-360-076/095

Description: Cartoons on international and New Zealand political and social issues. Quantity: 20 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card, sizes vary. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1932

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating the the Post Office and postal and telegraph services]

By: Staffan, Lawrence Charles, 1924-1998

Reference: Eph-A-POST-1932-01

Description: Pink envelope address to Master Lawrence C Staffan. Green rubber stamp showing monoplane dated 20 January 1932, green airmail sticker at top left, and green threepenny (overstamped in red "Five Pence") NZ stamp at top right, postmarked Greymouth 20 Jan 1932. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pink envelope, with green stamp, two adhered stamps, and address, 94 x 119 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr L Staffan in 1997.

Date: 8 Oct 1902-3 May 1903

By: Woodridge, G Charles, active 1902-1903

Reference: MS-Group-0912

Description: Woodridge sailed to New Zealand in Oct 1902 and in his journal describes his voyage on the ss `Papanui' visiting the Spain, Tenerife, the Cape of Good Hope and Tasmania en route, his travels through New Zealand, his departure and voyage back to England on the `Rimutaka' via Cape Horn, Uruguay. He writes of his daily activities, the people he met, the various sights, social life and customs of the places visited and he has included in the volume stamps from the various ports they visited, photographs, pen drawings, dried plants, maps and a huia feather. His itinerary is summarised at the end of the book which also includes a brief address list of persons met and rough abstract of expenses. Woodridge visited Wellington, Napier, Rotorua, Auckland, Helensville, Dargaville, Kaihu, Mangawhare, Maropui, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Pipiriki, Palmerston North, Pohangina, Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown, Paradise, Skippers, Wanaka, Alexandra, Lawrence, Christchurch, Springfield, Otira, Reefton, Nelson and Picton A telegram and two greetings cards were also with the journal Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s) (111 pages). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, photographs and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Two photographs, one of Woodridge, the other of a family group with the name Mrs Forbes written on it. Throughout the text are inserted photographs, stamps and drawings

Date: 1931 - 1935

From: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 :[Original art works for, and print of, advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals, mostly 1920s-1930s. Artwork by Neville L and Trevor Rykers, 1940s and 1950s].

Reference: B-185-033

Description: Drawing shows a bi-plane on an airfield. A uniformed man carries a sack of mail from a van on the far right, to be loaded on to the plane. The centre back ground has the word "Airmail" written above sun rays emanating from cumulus clouds, with Mount Cook in the left distance, and a steaming Mount Ngauruhoe in the right distance. This stamp design was a competition entry. It may have been for the 1931 stamp issue, a competition won by Leonard Cornwall Mitchell. Other Titles - Threepence; number one Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Artist's name and address] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet, 185 x 290 mm.

Date: [ca 1910-1915]

By: Dean, A B (Mr), active 1978

Reference: PAColl-8544

Description: Postcards of New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji, many of which were sent to Mrs E F White and Donald White of Devonport, Tasmania. Includes views of Buller Gorge, Christchurch, Timaru, Milford Sound, Lake Wakatipu, Mitre Peak, Wellington, bullock team at Banks Peninsula, Wairoa Geyser, Mount Mackenzie, Otira Gorge, Whanganui River, and Suva. Also includes a postcard of the late Right Hon Richard J Seddon. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards). 4 colour original photographic print(s). 7 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Postcards

Date: 1969 - 1970

By: Country Colour (Firm); Colquhoun, David, 1951-2018

Reference: Eph-F-GAMES-1969-01

Description: Jigsaw of approximately 165 pieces. Shows a central map of New Zealand with a Maori man and woman in traditional costume. This is surrounded by examples of approximately 50 New Zealand stamps dating from the 1960s and including Christmas stamps and health stamps. There is a decorative border showing geometric Maori patterns and depictions of carved wooden heads. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on jigsaw.. Physical Description: Jigsaw puzzle, 165 pieces, in picture 382 x 294 mm. Provenance: Donated by David Colqhoun in 1998.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-042

Description: Photographs relating to communications, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1977

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-

Reference: B-183-026

Description: Shows a sheet of 100 16 cent stamps, featuring a three-pannelled window from St Michael and All Saints Church in Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, designed by Beverley Shore Bennett. The window features an abstract view of the Madonna and Child, surrounded by angels. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [in ink] Beverley D Bennett 1977 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour lithograph on adhesive paper, 410 x 257 mm Provenance: Donation: Beverley Shore Bennett, Waikanae, 25 July 2011

Date: 1969

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to philately, stamp collecting, postage stamps, stamp exhibitions]

Reference: Eph-A-PHILATELY-1969-01

Description: Wooden postcard featuring an illustration of Mount Taranaki as seen from Pukekura Park. There is a 3-cent stamp stuck to the top right of recto; the stamp shows an image of the puarangi flower. A rubber stamp in green shows a logo of Captain Cook's sailing ship, and the words: "Official cachet, New Plymouth Oct 6-11" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on wooden postcard, 93 x 140 mm.

Date: 1936

From: Hedley, William Grant, 1952- :Collection

Reference: PAColl-D-0871

Description: Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1898

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-2086-1/2-F

Description: New Zealand five pence stamp printed in London, England, in 1898. Design includes drawings of Otira Gorge and Mount Ruapehu. Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 2, No 19, p 5 Copy of a stamp from the Post and Telegraph Department, made for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40). Source of descriptive information - File print, MNZ copyright register, MNZ negative register Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1901

From: Various artists :[Box of assorted Christmas cards. 1860s-1919]

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm); Chief Post Office (Wellington, N.Z.); White, Benoni William Lytton, 1858-1950

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-1901-01

Description: Shows a montage of images, including telegraph wires above Wellington Harbour, a young Maori woman posting a letter in a postbox while she frees a bird on her right hand; two warriors standing within a Maori pa, with flax and cabbage trees, a steamship crossing the sea; a train puffing along the line; and the Chief Post Office building in Wellington. There is the image of a red one penny stamp in the top right corner. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on Christmas greetings card 1901.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on folded card, 187 x 244 mm.

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0024626

Description: Shows 'New Stamps to Mark What our Soldiers Fought for' and an image of three postage stamps labelled 'The Welfare State' that have 'cancelled' rubber-stamped over the top. The marginal figure makes the comment "Need not Greed". The topical reference is to Anzac Day commemorations on the 25th of April, the wider reference is to the 'spirit' of Anzac day and its associated ideals of nationhood, including the belief in New Zealand as a welfare state. The cartoonist questions whether these ideals are still held in today's political climate. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1973

By: Carlton-Carruthers du Chateau & King Ltd; New Zealand Post Office; Nicholls, Reg, active 1970s

Reference: Eph-D-PHILATELY-1973-01

Description: Shows about 100 New Zealand stamps arranged in a circle around a small map of New Zealand. The stamps are in both sterling and decimal currencies, and the latest dates from around the early 1970s. This poster was designed by Reg Nicholls when he was working for Carlton Carruthers. It was probably published by the New Zealand Post Office. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 810 x 535 mm.