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Date: 1932

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

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1932-351

Description: Shows the listed items and their prices, which depend on their size. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 22. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, 300 x 210 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

Description: Includes advertisements for their range of linoleums and oilcloths, carpets and mats, furnishing drapery, furniture including billiard tables, mantelpieces, upholstered suites, bedding, kitchen furniture, ecclesiastical furniture, rattan and basketware furniture, perambulators (prams), go-carts, chairs, ironmongery, and crockery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and photolithographs, 188 pages, 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1955

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1950s-01

Description: Illustrated catalogue of goods for sale, including clothing, silverware, household appliances, furniture, pedal car and scooter, garden machinery, saddles and cow covers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Volume of 50 pages, each 230 x 155 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: 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: 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: 1905 - 1912

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

Reference: Eph-B-DECOR-1910-01-178

Description: Lists the furnishings provided for an eight-roomed house, including items for drawing room, dining room, breakfast room, two bedrooms, servant's bedroom, hall, kitchen. Other Titles - Eight-roomed Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Letterpress on page 234 x 317 mm.

Date: 1905

By: Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-LOTTERY-1905-01

Description: Shows six inset photographs of the prizes in the lottery, separated by ornate decorative framing. First prize a piano (100 guineas); second prize a hooded phaeton (80 guineas); third prize a ladys' diamond bangle (60 guineas); fourth prize a bicycle (lady's or gent's) (25 guineas); fifth prize a dining room suite (25 guineas); and sixth prize a Densmore typewriter (25 guineas). Accompanied by a letter from the committee, signed by R Leslie Hunt and A Denniston, honorary secretaries. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Abel, Dykes Limited, Printers, Auckland Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Offset lithograph and photolithograph, on cover of booklet, 134 x 260 mm.

Date: 1925

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

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1925-517

Description: Shows eight different models of dining chairs with padded seats and carved or slatted backs. Extended Title - From Farmers' Trading Co. Catalogue 7. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) in sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Letterpress, 275 x 210 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-1910-01-027

Description: Shows some of the models available, from the simple to the more ornate with mirrors and umbrella compartments, carving and tiles. Shows influence of Art Nouveau. Extended Title - From Tonson Garlick Co. "Complete modern home furnishers" [Catalogue ca 1910]. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (om page of sales catalogue). Physical Description: Offset on page 234 x 317 mm.