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North & Scoullar Ltd :North & Scoullar, established 1863. [Principals] A Scoullar, R Chisholm. Illustrated catalogue. Dunedin, and Hoxton St. London. S Lister litho. Dunedin [ca 1882?]
- Date
- 1881 - 1884
- By
- North & Scoullar Ltd; Lister, Samuel, 1832?-1913; McIntyre, Peter, 1862-1922; E F S (Lithographer), active 1870-1880s?
- Reference
- Eph-B-FURNITURE-1882-01
- Description
Fully illustrated sales catalogue for a furniture importer, and wholesale and retail cabinet maker, with illustrative plates (some by P.McI). One plate shows the North & Scoullar building on the corner of Rattray and Maclaggan Streets, with a Roslyn tram at lower right. Another plate shows the steam furniture factory at the same address. The "Announcement" near the beginning refers to the long and successful career of the business established in 1863. Merchandise illustrated includes seats and chairs, hall stands, dining room interiors, upholstered chairs and settees, sideboards and dressers, tables, drawing room interiors, writing bureaux, shelves for storing sheet music, pianos, dressing tables, library interiors, writing desks, library shelves and glassed bookcases, bedroom interiors, wardrobes, clothesracks, chests of drawers, canopied beds, bedsteads, footstools, mirrors, decorative curtains rails, prams and bassinets, cutlery, lamps, clocks, decoratively-edged shelves, breakfast room interiors, hutch dressers and commodes.
Contents:
Cover, inside cover
Title page engraved by Peter McIntyre
Building on Rattray & Maclaggan Streets Dunedin, engraved by Peter McIntyre, lithographed by S Lister
Steam furniture factory, Rattray and Maclaggan Streets, Dunedin, engraved by Peter McIntyre, lithographed by S Lister
Announcement
Index page
Pages 1-3: Seats and chairs
Pages 4-8: Hall tables, hat stands, hall chairs
Pages 9-11: Dining room interiors
Pages 12-19: Dining room chairs
Pages 20-24: Settees and couches
Pages 25-31: Sideboards
Pages 32-35: Dining tables
Page 36: Dinner wagons and trays
Pages 37-39: Drawing room interiors
Pages 40-60: Chairs and settees
Pages 61-65: Tables
Pages 66-69: Tiered stands, shelves, canterburys
Page 70: Pianos
Pages 71-74: Mirrored sideboards
Pages 75-76: Library interiors
Pages 77-78: Desks
Pages 79-81: Bookshelves
Page 82: Printing press, miscellaneous desks and chairs
Pages 83-85: Bedroom interiors
Pages 86-88, 91: Wardrobes (page 89-90 missing)
Pages 92-96: Vanity units
Page 97: Drying rails or towel rails
Pages 98-99: Chests of drawers
Pages 100-113: Beds (pages 107, 109, 111, 113 in colour; there are no images on pages 108, 110, 112, 114)
Page 115: Footstools
Pages 116-124: Mirrors
Page 125: Rails, rods, moulded friezes
Pages 126-130: Wooden chairs
Page 131: Prams and baby furniture
Page 132: Cutlery, crewets, metal tea services
Page 133: Lamps
Page 134: Clocks
Pages 135-138: Fenders and fire irons
Pages 139-140: Breakfast room interior
Page 141: Hutch dresser
Pages 142-144: tables, sink benches
Page 145: Settees and sideboard
Page 146: Cots
Page 147: Wooden bed frames
Page 148: Tables
The word "Principals" on the title page has been inked over on the Library's copy.
Dated ca 1882, despite the fact that the name of the firm became Scoullar & Chisholm in 1880 at the retirement of North. Only Scoullar and Chisholm's names appear on the title page, and one of the designs is dated 1881 (information from William Cottrell, email 17 July 2010).
P McI the artist of some of the plates, may be Peter McIntyre (1862-1932), who arrived in Dunedin in 1879. Note similarity of signature to that on item at C-060-006.
William Cottrell further notes:
Some designs have been copied from G M & H J Story's (1865) catalogue 32 London Wall & 2 Coleman Street, London and some from Wyman's Furniture Gazette mostly 1879-81.
Some lithographs are by Peter McIntyre, and some are by an unknown lithographer with the initials E.F.S. (eg. pages 9-10, 38-39,76, 84-85, 140). The illustrations seem to be in three different styles
Quantity: 1 album(s).
Physical Description: Hardbound book of 148 pages, brown leather spine and corners, 280 x 225 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 album(s), Ephemera, Lithographs, Sales catalogues, Hardbound book of 148 pages, brown leather spine and corners, 280 x 225 mm.
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