IMAGE
[Weighing machine card]. The arrow indicates your weight only when 1d is inserted after pointer has come to rest. Date 26.1.45 [1945]
- Date
- 1945
- Reference
- Eph-A-MACHINERY-1945-01
- Description
Ticket issued by a weighing machine. The weight of the client was just over 13 stone 12 pounds. The verso shows an advertisement for Dreavers Ltd, retailers of ladies' and children's wear since 1872, in George Street, Dunedin.
Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017.
Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Ticket, 31 x 58 mm.
Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2007.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]
- Format
- 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Offset photomechanical prints, Tickets, Ticket, 31 x 58 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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[Weighing machine card]. The arrow indicates your weight only when 1d is inserted after pointer has come to rest. Date 26.1.45 [1945]. [Ephemera of octavo size relating to machines, machinery, engines, mechanical engineering]. Ref: Eph-A-MACHINERY-1945-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23093683More information can be found in our terms of use.