Places

Date: 1918

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1918-01

Description: Shows an arrangement of text of varying sizes. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on sheet 220 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in April 2002.

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to guns, rifles, shooting and ammunition. 1911-1919]

By: Hazard, William Henry, -1899; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-GUN-1919-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for a gun manufacturer. Shows guns, rifles, revolvers, cartridges, bullets, shot-gun covers, axes, pocket knives, cigarette lighters, dog calls, whistles, duck calls, Meilink's deposit vaults, electric flashlights. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 40 pages, each 250 x 90 mm. Provenance: Purchased from South Sea Books, Christchurch, in 2009.

Date: 1880 - 1889

By: Haggett & Percy (Firm); Hughes, James, active 1868-1881; Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm); Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1880s

Description: Includes programmes or flyers for the following performances: 1880s: Williamson, Garner & Musgrove's celebrated Royal Comic Opera Company. Audran's charming opera "La Mascotte". Opera House Wellington. Magnificent scenery by Gordon and Brunton. Williamson, Garner & Musgrove's celebrated Royal Comic Opera Company. "Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride". Opera House Wellington. Magnificent scenery by Gordon & Brunton. Bock & Co printers. Libretto of "Olivette!", comic opera in 3 acts, by H B Farnie; music composed by Audran. Published for use in Australian and NZ colonies by Musgrove's London Opera Comique Company. [1880s?] (donation PR-03-0058) 1880: Lyster's Royal Italian & English Opera. "Aida" and "Rose of Castile". Theatre Royal [Wellington], 24 February 1880. Lyster's Royal Italian & English Opera. "La favorita" and "La traviata". Theatre Royal Wellington, 26 February [1880]. Flier / programme. 1881: R W Cary's "Pirates of Penzance!" on their piratical tour of New Zealand. [Libretto]. Wellington, James Hughes, steam printer, engraver, etc, Lambton Quay, 1881. Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Troupe in the extraordinary opera of "The Lass that loved a sailor", or HMS Pinafore. Conductor and musical director Mr J J Pollard, Leader of the orchestra Mr C Pollard. [n.p., 1881?] Williamson's Royal Opera Company. "Patience or Bunthorne's bride". New aesthetic scenery painted by Mr Alfred Clint. Costumier Mr W Ford. 1881. Williamson's Royal Opera Company. "HMS Pinafore". Entirely new ship scenery by George Gordon. Post print, Wellington. 1882: Abbott's Opera House (Auckland). "La fille du Tambour Major", with notice of forthcoming productions of "Billee Taylor", "Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride" [1882?] Montague-Turner Grand English Opera. "Lucia de Lammermoor". Theatre Royal Wellington. 23 January [1882]. Theatre Royal (Wellington?). Last week of the Montague-Turner Grand English Opera. "Mignon!" this Monday 6 February. On Wednesday "Lucrezia Borgia"; on Thursday Benefit of Miss Annis Montague, a grand gala night; Friday and Saturday "The Royal Middy". Printed at the New Zealand Times, Wellington [Flier. 1882] Theatre Royal [Auckland]. "Guy Mannering". Amateur dramatic performance in aid of the Masonic Hall building fund. 29 August 1882. Printed by H Brett, "Evening star" office, Wyndham Street. 1884?: Comic opera "Rip van Winkle" in three acts. [Libretto with Wellington advertisements; no cover. Assumed to have been used during 1884 season performed by A T Dunning's London Comic Opera Company] Dunning's Opera Company. John Crook's spectacular military opera comique in 3 acts. "The King's dragoons". Auckland, H Brett, theatrical printer, Star Office. Libretto [This opera is known to have been performed in Napier in June 1884] 1885: Leading amateurs of New Plymouth under the direction of Mr G Garry. Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Trial by jury!" (With L Humphries, Miss Hempton, Mr Holdsworth, Mr Rennell, F Humphries, Miss White, Miss Cliff, Mr Downes). Alexandra Hall, Wednesday July 29 [1885]. Programme. Printed at the "Daily news" Office, New Plymouth 1887 : Messr's Williamson, Garner & Musgrove's Royal Comic Opera Company. "The Mikado". General manager Mr R S Smythe. Scenery by Mr George Gordon. Bock & Cousins, Printers, Brandon Street. [1887?] 1888-1889: "Marjorie", comic opera in three acts. Libretto by Lewis Clifton & J J Dilley; music by Walter Slaughter. Prince of Wales Theatre [ca 1888-1889]. Liretto (2 slightly differing) 1889: Martin Simonsen's New Royal English and Italian Opera Company. "Il trovatore". [Theatre Royal Wellington, September 1889]. Libretto. Haggett & Percy, Printers, Lambton Quay. St John Ambulance Association. Grand costume concert; selections from popular operas: Favart, Iolanthe, Mikado, Patience, Sorcerer. Conductor F M Wallace, Hon Manager J J Kinsey, Hon Secretary F Notley meadows. Christchurch Theatre Royal, 19-20 July 1889. Programme and book of words. Quantity: 20 programmes / flyers. Physical Description: Programmes and flyers, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: One programme donated in 2002 by Paul Orsman, Holmes estate; two libretti by Mrs Margaret Hancock, Tokoroa, in 2009.

Date: 1920

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd; Liverpool, Annette Louise Foljambe, Countess of, 1875-1948

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1920-02

Description: Filled with photographs of the visit of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales. The cover is a coloured chromolithograph. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 30 pages, each 204 x 282 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Lady Liverpool (see inscription on top right of front cover).

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: 1920 - 1929

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to forests, forest parks and forestry]

By: Smith Wylie and Company Ltd; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-FOREST-1920s-01

Description: Booklet describing the Auckland firm of brokers of afforestation businesses in New Zealand, with portrait photographs of the directors D S Wylie, H Landon Smith and W Fraser. Also contains a group photograph of the head office staff, female staff working the addressograph, and an interior view of the head office at 301 Smith's Buildings, Albert Street, Auckland, with staff arranged at desks in an open office. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 211 x 110 mm. Provenance: Donated by Ms T Healy, Auckland, 12 Jan 2012 Transfers: Other material of the same provenance housed at MS-Group-2053, Oral History and Photographic Archive..

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: 1920

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ROYAL-1920-04

Description: Coloured invitation featuring an inset photographic portrait of Edward Prince of Wales at the top, and the ship "Renown" at the centre bottom, flanked by a scene of Auckland Harbour. The prince's photograph is flanked by the British and New Zealand flags, the lion and unicorn, oak leaves and New Zealand clematis. On the left is the Auckland coat of arms, with the words "Advance Auckland", and at the right the New Zealand coat of arms with the words "Onward New Zealand". The border features Prince of Wales plumes at the corners. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on light card, 190 x 275 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath, Auckland dealer, in 2004.

Date: 1920 - 1929

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].

By: Auckland star (Newspaper); Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-185-088-a

Description: Certificate of membership in the Peter Pan Club associated with the children's page in the Auckland Star, shows a circular inset at top centre, of the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Along the top is a frieze showing a rabbit, a kiwi and two pixies. There are decorated columns down the sides and a cicular logo of the club at lower centre, showing a star, two hands shaking, and the motto "Be loyal". The certificate is signed by "Wendy" the Club Mother, and "Peter Pan" the Club Captain. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet, 320 x 439 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1929

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].

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-185-097

Description: Two sizes of a design for a tinned fruit label, green with gilt trim. The central logo shows an oak leaf, and at the left is an arrangement of fruits, including black currants, strawberries, gooseberries, peach, apricot, pear, plums, apple and blackberries. Leslie Rykers is the attributed artist because of the provenance of this material. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs, 96 x 300 mm, and 82 x 238 mm, on sheet 215 x 335 mm.

Date: 1920

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].

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-185-090

Description: Chromolithograph formal decorative invitation shows the coat of arms of the Prince of Wales at top centre, with a New Zealand flag and a Union Jack on either side. At centre right is an inset circular portrait of Prince Edward the Prince of wales, and at left is a circular inset of the ship "Renown". The coats of arms of Auckland and New Zealand are at the lower border, on either side of a crest including an "E" scroll with rose, thistle, shamrock decoration. The columns at either side have Maori motifs. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on card 192 x 277 mm.

Date: 1920 - 1929

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].

By: Auckland star (Newspaper); Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-185-088

Description: Certificate of membership in the Peter Pan Club associated with the children's page in the Auckland Star, shows a circular inset at top centre, of the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Along the top is a frieze showing a rabbit, a kiwi and two pixies. There are decorated columns down the sides and a cicular logo of the club at lower centre, showing a star, two hands shaking, and the motto "Be loyal". The certificate is signed by "Wendy" the Club Mother, and "Peter Pan" the Club Captain. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet, 320 x 439 mm.

Date: 1912

From: [Music programmes 1912].

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-1912-01

Description: Programme booklet containing libretto, and photographs of performers including Rosina Buckmann, Dora Hunt, Philip Newbury, Charles Larsen. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 28 pages, 145 x 230 mm. with green covers and a red ribbon tie

Date: 1920

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].

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: B-185-025

Description: Chromolithograph cover of a 28-page souvenir of the visit of Edward Prince of Wales shows an oval inset photograph of the Prince at top centre between a lion and a unicorn and the British and New Zealand flags. Below him is the Prince of Wales plume and motto "Ich dien". The coats of arms of Auckland and New Zealand are shown at left and right of the page. At lower centre is an inset photograph of the HMS "Renown" flanked by two views of the Waitemata Harbour. The border shows a Maori design with Prince of Wales plumes at the four corners. New Zealand clematis, Scottish thistle, and English rose are above and below the pext panel. Other Titles - His Royal Highness Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 200 x 286 mm.

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to ANZAC events in New Zealand and overseas, as anniversaries of the landing at Anzac Cove]

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-ANZAC-1918-01

Description: Programme front cover includes the crest of the Returned Soldiers' Association, quotations from poems by Robert Burns and Laurence Housman, and an illustration of a soldier lying on his front in a field. The back cover remembers "New Zealand's heroic troops who took part in the Landing on Turkish soil at Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915" and gives a quotation from a speech by the Dean of Westminster on the Anzacs. The inside spread has the words "Maoriland's welcome to her soldier boys, and the programme of the smoke concert with performers including Maughan Barnett (city organist), J H Gunson (Auckland mayor), Ernest Drake (songs), Mr Adams (xylophone solos), an address by Rt Rev Bishop Cleary, J Wallace Atkinson (songs), toasts by W B Leyland and W A Beddoe. The whole programme is covered inside and out with autographs in pencil. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and holographs on folded programme, 242 x 100 mm.