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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: 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: 1932

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 22. [1932].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-374-opp-3

Description: Shows twelve samples of linoleum, in floral and geometric patterns. Prices range from 46/6 for 9ft x 7ft 6in, to 73/6 for 12ft x 9 ft. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22, third of pages opposite page 374. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 262 x 202 mm.

Date: 1905 - 1912

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

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-005

Description: Shows a general view of the department in the retail store, with rolls of linoleum standing up flanking a walkway between them. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (on page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Photolithograph on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1928 - 1929

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 10. [1929?].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1929-553-opp

Description: Shows twelve samples, six of linoleum, three of inlaid linoleum, and three of Empire inlaid linoleum. Description under each. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. catalogue 10. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) in sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 270 x 195 mm.

Date: 1925

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 7. [1925].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1925-565-opp

Description: Shows twelve samples of lino patterns, for bedrooms, kitchens, and other rooms. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 7. opposite page 565. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) in sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Photolithograph,

Date: 1932

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 22. [1932].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-374-opp-2

Description: Shows twelve samples of linoleum, in floral and geometric patterns. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22, second of pages opposite page 374. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 262 x 202 mm.

Date: 1932

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 22. [1932].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-374-opp-1

Description: Shows twelve samples of linoleum, in floral and geometric patterns. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22, opposite page 374. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 262 x 202 mm.

Date: 1928 - 1929

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 10. [1929?].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1929-552-opp

Description: Shows twelve samples, nine of lino and three of linoleum squares. Description under each. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. catalogue 10. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) in sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 270 x 195 mm.

Date: 1932

From: Farmers Trading Co. Ltd :Catalogue 22. [1932].

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-374-opp-4

Description: Shows twelve samples of linoleum, in floral and geometric patterns. Prices range from 37/6 for 9ft x 7ft 6in, to 59/6 for 12ft x 9 ft. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22, fourth of pages opposite page 374. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on page 262 x 202 mm.