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St George Preserving & Canning Company Ltd :Roast mutton. [Printed by] Mills, Dick & Co...
Date: 1890 - 1940
By: Mills, Dick & Company
Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-09
Description: A label for a four-sided tin of meat. Shows the two larger panels (for the larger sides of the tin) incorporating insets of a circular motif showing St George on horseback fighting a dragon. One panel shows a background of a lake surrounded by hills, with cabbage tree and ferns. One panel shows native clematis. The style is late Victorian. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 117 x 350 mm (slightly curved).
Wellington Meat Export Co Ltd :[Five canned meat labels, for Sheep tongues (three diffe...
Date: 1890 - 1920
From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].
Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-058
Description: The top three labels carry the Peach brand logo. All labels show an arrangement of text and lettering. No lithographer's name is recorded on the labels. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [58]. Quantity: 5 colour art print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs on labels, 105 x 330 mm; 53 x 330 mm; and, 50 x 330 mm.
New Zealand frozen meat trade; history of a sheep from a New Zealand sheep station to t...
Date: 1887
By: Maclean, E W (Mr), active 1937
Reference: Eph-E-MEAT-1887-01
Description: Illustrations (some by Hare and some by S.B.) and text about the export meat trade. The illustrations show: A New Zealand sheep station / Hare sc. Breeds of sheep Preparing for shipment Saloon of NZSCo's RMS 'Rimutaka' / S.B. New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. 'Rimutaka', with passengers and frozen mutton, leaving Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, for London [Two] views of freezing works, Tomoana, Hawkes Bay, NZ Discharging freezing chamber / SB; S Hare sc Haslam's freezing machines, as used by Nelson Brothers for the refrogerating chambers Messers [sic] Black & Stimpson's Central Meat Market, London / Hare sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 750 x 612 mm.
St George Preserving & Canning Company Ltd :St George haricot beef. [Printed by] Mills ...
Date: 1890 - 1940
By: Mills, Dick & Company
Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-02
Description: Shows for each side of tin, the two larger panels incorporating insets of a circular motif showing St George on horseback fighting a dragon. One panel shows a background of a lake surrounded by hills, with cabbage tree and ferns. One panel shows native clematis. The style is late Victorian. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mills, Dick & Co. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 138 x 340 mm (slightly curved). Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 1997.
Christchurch Meat Company Limited :Corned beef, quality guaranteed. Ch[rist]ch[urch] Pr...
Date: 1906 - 1920
By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-04
Description: Shows cattle and sheep in a field in one inset panel on the left, and a picture of two bulls at the top centre. Medals show the award won by the company at the Crystal Palace Colonial & Indian Exhibition in 1905. Decorative lettering and panels are used. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on label, 127 x 337 mm. Provenance: Donated loose in the back of the Gear Meat Company scrapbook.
Christchurch Meat Company Limited :Compressed corned mutton, warranted to keep in any c...
Date: 1906 - 1920
By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-05
Description: Shows bull and sheep in a field in one inset panel on the right, and a circular picture of a group of sheep at the left. Decorative lettering is used. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on label, 143 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated loose in the back of the Gear Meat Company scrapbook.
St George Preserving & Canning Company Ltd :St George boiled mutton. [Can label. 1890s-...
Date: 1890 - 1940
By: Mills, Dick & Company
Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-03
Description: Shows for each side of tin, the two larger panels incorporating insets of a circular motif showing St George on horseback fighting a dragon. One panel shows a background of a lake surrounded by hills, with cabbage tree and ferns. One panel shows native clematis. The style is late Victorian. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mills, Dick & Co. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 115 x 352 mm (slightly curved). Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 1997.
A D Willis (Wanganui) :[Three labels - West Coast Meat & Produce Export Co Ltd (Patea)....
Date: 1890 - 1920
From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].
By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)
Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-046
Description: Top two labels show the same scene of Mt Taranaki, framed between a Maori whare and a cabbage tree (probably based on Allom's lithograph of Heaphy's view of Mt Egmont). As well there are decorative panels of an Oriental style. Bottom label shows a view of the central mountain plateau, with a ship coming into harbour in the foreground. This view is flanked by pictures of a cabbage tree and a tree fern. There is a picture of a ship at the mouth of a port (possibly the mouth of the Whanganui River) on the other half of the label. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [46]. Quantity: 3 colour art print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs, on labels, 94 x 340 mm; 105 x 325 mm; and, 109 x 344 mm.
St George Preserving & Canning Company Ltd :St George roast beef. [Can label. 1890s-194...
Date: 1890 - 1940
Reference: Eph-C-MEAT-1900s-01
Description: Shows for each side of tin, the two larger panels incorporating insets of a circular motif showing St George on horseback fighting a dragon. One panel shows a background of a lake surrounded by hills, with cabbage tree and ferns. One panel shows native clematis. The style is late Victorian. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 138 x 340 mm (slightly curved). Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 1997.
Gear Meat Company, Petone
Date: [ca 1910]
From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives
Reference: 1/2-001869-G
Description: A view taken from Korokoro looking down on Petone Railway Station, Hutt Road and south-east to the Gear Meat Company and to the wharf on the waterfront. Jackson Street runs from the railway station to the left of the image. A train has stopped at the station. Identifiable commercial premises are F G Reid; Hurrell & Cronin (G D Cronin. Empire Carriage Factory); Baker Brothers (Estate agents and auctioneers). Photograph possibly taken by William A Price, in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - The Gear Works. Petone. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches
Various artists :[Four canned meat labels. ca 1890-1920].
Date: 1890 - 1920
From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].
Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-056
Description: Includes labels for: Canterbury Frozen Meat and Dairy Produce Export Company Limited. Sheep tongues. Manufactured at Belfast, North Canterbury N.Z. Peach brand Compressed corned mutton. Wellington Meat Export Co Ltd. Boiled mutton. Christchurch Meat Company Ltd. Sheep tongues.[post-1906 - mentions Christchurch Exhibition] Lithographers' names are not printed on these labels. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [56]. Quantity: 4 colour art print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Chromolithographs on labels, 57 x 340 mm; 190 x 122 mm (2 of this size); and, 58 x 330 mm.
Marlborough Rabbit Trapping and Meat Export Company. Curried rabbit, trapped rabbit bra...
Date: 1900 - 1920
From: Gear Meat Company :Scrapbook of labels. 1890s-1920s].
By: Wilson & Horton (Firm)
Reference: Eph-F-MEAT-Gear-130
Description: Marlborough Rabbit Trapping and Meat Export Co label shows a sailing ship being loaded in a port at the right, and a still life arrangement of fruit with fish, pheasant (?) and rabbit at left. The borders are decorative. The S Kirkpatrick label is a generic one with a space for the specific food contained. It has floral and decoative motifs. Extended Title - From Gear Meat Company Scrapbook of labels, page [130]. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on labels.. Physical Description: Photolithographs, labels for tin, 108 x 342 mm, and 114 x 322 mm.
Young, H W, fl 1898-1901 :Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition. Certificate of mer...
Date: 1898 - 1899
By: Young, Henry William, 1840-1903; New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works
Reference: Eph-D-MEAT-Gear-1898-01
Description: Shows arrangement of text with decorative border. Near the top is an allegorical female head in a wreath (perhaps representing Industry). Main scene shows Auckland Harbour, and an inset at bottom left shows the exhibition buildings. There is a large tree-fern at left, and clematis at lower right. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Lithographed at the Star Printing Works, Auckland, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - H W Young Des. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 630 x 500 mm.