Smith & Brown Ltd :Smith & Brown Ltd present New Zealand's finest furniture service! to town and country residents throughout North Island. Shop by mail or in the store! 148-152 Symonds Street, Auckland C.3. [Sales catalogue. November, 1940].

Date
1940
By
Smith and Brown (Firm)
Reference
Eph-B-FURNITURE-1940-01
Description

A sales catalogue advertising the goods available from Smith & Brown Ltd, Auckland. Prices are listed separately in the 14 pages at the back.

Items for sale include: lounge suites including Chesterfield suites, bed settees, chairs, china cabinets, chiming clocks, writing desks, Axminster carpets, congoleum and linoleum, walnut veneer bedroom furniture, bedroom suites, "Germpru" mattresses, "Tattersfield" mattresses, "Yale" bedroom furniture, dining room suites, kitchen tables and chairs, tea wagons, occasinal tables, cane furniture and prams, down quilts, wollen blankets, holland blinds and curtains.

Illustrated in black and white throughout, with colour illustrations on the both sides of each cover, and some colour features within the pages.

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Photolithographs in spiral-bound booklet of 66 plus 14 pages, each 315 x 245 mm.

Provenance: Purchased from Quilter's Bookshop in 2002, lot 253.

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1 album(s) Album(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Advertisements, Photolithographs in spiral-bound booklet of 66 plus 14 pages, each 315 x 245 mm.
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Smith & Brown Ltd :This 4 pce Colurtex suite for 2/6 weekly, this suite exclusive to Sm...

Date: 1940

From: Smith & Brown Ltd :Smith & Brown Ltd present New Zealand's finest furniture service! to town and country residents throughout North Island. Shop by mail or in the store! 148-152 Symonds Street, Auckland C.3. [Sales catalogue. November, 1940].

Reference: Eph-B-FURNITURE-1940-back-1

Description: A colour advertisement showing a sofa, two chairs and a small table, finished in hard wearing lacqueur in green. Other colours available were orange, red, brown, pink, blue, or gold. The lower half of the page shows chairs and armchairs, with and without cushions, all finished in the same lacqueur, of pink, blue, orange, and gold. Other Titles - Colourtex Other Titles - Four piece, two shillings and sixpence Extended Title - From Smith & Brown Ltd sales catalogue, November 1940, back cover. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue. Physical Description: Photolithograph on back cover of booklet, 315 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Quilter's Bookshop in 2002, lot 253.

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Smith & Brown Ltd :Buy a smart new kitchen set. Smith & Brown offer new coloured furnit...

Date: 1940

From: Smith & Brown Ltd :Smith & Brown Ltd present New Zealand's finest furniture service! to town and country residents throughout North Island. Shop by mail or in the store! 148-152 Symonds Street, Auckland C.3. [Sales catalogue. November, 1940].

Reference: Eph-B-FURNITURE-1940-01-back-2

Description: A colour advertisement showing a kitchen cabinet in green and another in red. Also shows a table and chairs in green, and a single blue chair. At top right is a range of five colour rectangles showing the range of colour finishes available. Extended Title - From Smith & Brown Ltd sales catalogue, November 1940, inside back cover. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue. Physical Description: Photolithograph on inside back cover of booklet, 315 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Quilter's Bookshop in 2002, lot 253.

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Smith & Brown Ltd :This is real walnut veneer in natural colour. "Katherine" suite no. ...

Date: 1940

From: Smith & Brown Ltd :Smith & Brown Ltd present New Zealand's finest furniture service! to town and country residents throughout North Island. Shop by mail or in the store! 148-152 Symonds Street, Auckland C.3. [Sales catalogue. November, 1940].

Reference: Eph-B-FURNITURE-1940-01-front-2

Description: A colour advertisement showing at the top a bedroom suite in walnut veneer, and at the bottom a dining room suite in limed oak veneer. The text gives a detailed description of dimensions and colours and styles available. Extended Title - From Smith & Brown Ltd sales catalogue, November 1940, inside front cover. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on page of catalogue. Physical Description: Photolithograph inside front cover of booklet, 315 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Quilter's Bookshop in 2002, lot 253.