Places

Date: 1928

By: Stewart Hardware Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOOLS-1928-01

Description: Includes lists and illustrations of merchandise available, including adzes, augers, awls, axes, bits, mitre boxes, braces, chisels, chucks, clamps, files, gimlets, irons, lamps, planes, squares, tapes, plasterers' tools, trowels, spanners, taps, wrenches, vices, etc. Other Titles - Stewart's Hardware Ltd, the leading tool and hardware house, Courtenay Place, Wellington Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 104 pages, each 242 x 189 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Books online auction, 23 May 2006.

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: 1999

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958- :[31 original political and social cartoons published in Metro magazine from February to December 1999]

Reference: A-129-090

Description: Cartoon illustration for a magazine article "Five go mad in Auckland", shows politician Jim Anderton in a cafe holding a knife and fork and ready to eat. Contrary to convention, he holds his fork in the right hand and his knife in the left, possibly a commentary on the right and left in politics. His tie shows a pattern of fried eggs and sausages on a red background. His biro is in the breast pocket of his shirt. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 87 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache, on sheet 299 x 420 mm.

Date: 1977 - 1982

By: Campbell Grant (NZ) Ltd; Stone, Arthur Richard (Dr), active 1970-2000

Reference: Eph-B-ANTIQUES-Silver

Description: Includes sales catalogues for the Silver Shop, Campbell Grant (N.Z.) Limited, 196 Hereford Street, Christchurch. Items for sale include cutlery, tableware, trays, crewets, jewellery, sauceboats, coffee pots, vinaigrettes, jugs, candlesticks, snuff-boxes, tankards, cases for cartes-de-visite. Quantity: 5 volume(s) sales catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets, sizes varying below 350 mm.

Date: 1917

By: Farmers' Union Trading Company; John Sands Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-Farmers-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the Famers' Union Trading Company. The first few pages shows portraits of the Farmers' Union presidents and leaders, including the Auckland Provincial Executive. There are also notices from the New Zealand Dairy Association, and exterior and interior photographs of the Farmers' Union buildings at various sites around Auckland, Contains illustrations of merchandise for sale include shoes and boots, china and glassware, electroplated goods, cutlery and jewellery, grocery and foostuffs, stationery, pipes, drapery, hats, coats, Petone rugs (colour plate), women's clothing, lace, boy's clothes, haberdashery, timber supplies, mantelpieces, pianos, sewing machines, beds, chairs, wardrobes and dressing tables, perambulators, tools, domestic hardware, rubber goods, guns, cars, farm machinery, bicycles, motorcycles, carpets, linoleums, curtains, linens, men's clothing, saddlery, horse collars and harnesses, horse coats, stirrups. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 344 pages, each 310 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: 1949 - 1955

Reference: Eph-D-RETAIL-1949-01

Description: Arrangement of text and illustrations in grid format, showing objects for sale and their prices. Goods include: hosiery, vests, light bulbs, tea towels, bloomers, knitting yarn, handkerchiefs, colouring books, saucepans,mats, chocolates, pillow cases, pencils, toilet tissue, socks, tumblers, spoons, plates, slippers, hairpins, soap and elastic. Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Geo. W Slade Ltd., Printers, Wellington. Dated by perpetual calendar and by presence of Woolworth's in Levin phonebook of 1954 but not of 1948. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 540 x 432 mm.