Cynicus Publishing Company Ltd

Date: 1900 - 1969

By: Brown, Laurence Binet, 1927-2011; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-1900/1969

Description: Includes: Best wishes [purple flowers]. From Rachel Mary Barton, Hawera, 30 Dec 1913 Cynicus Publishing Company, Tayport, Fife. Rebecca at the well. Posted to Nr G Davis, C/- Brown Barrett, Auckland, on 28 August 1906. Good wishes. (Embossed card with raised plastic image of a sailboat). Printed in England Joan Smith card. Pied shag. With best wishes; nga whaka mihi. 1967 Kindly thoughts; kia ora. The drop scene, Wanganui River, North Island. "Singing birds and babbling waters / Divinity in lovely bush / No scenic artist ever painted / With half the skill of Nature's brush". Dawson Printing Co Ltd Auckland [1930s?] Kismet Series, London, no. 207. "Sitting side by side / My heart was in a whirl; / My mouth was full of hair / and my arms were full of girl". Handwritten message reads: "Dear Gerald, how are you. better late than never. it is blowing here something awful. I am very pleased with my lot down here have very good times. how does this P.C. strike you. this is you + I on the Ponsonby wharf. I don't think. I see by the papers your brother has escaped again. no offence. kind regards Win" River Yarra, Melbourne. W.B.T. series, printed in England [1920s?] Three blank cards with borders printed by Hornblow, early 1900s. Arthur Cleave & Company Ltd. Memorial cards [Advertising flier for the printing of memorial cards. ca 1910-1930] Quantity: 1 folder(s) 12 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print and lithographs on cards, sizes varying around 80 x 110 mm.

Date: December 1911

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Cynicus Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MARCH-APRIL-2021/10

Description: Colour-printed postcard by Cynicus Publishing Company Ltd from the New Zealand election series, showing a man sitting atop a large crowd of women, with the caption "Our new member owes his seat to the Ladies". Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing one piece of ephemera.

Date: 1908

From: [Ephemera including tickets and timetables for the Wellington tram service. 1900-1929]

By: Anderson, Martin, 1854-1932; Cynicus Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TRAM-Wellington-1908-01

Description: Postcard shows a couple of harrassed parents walking with their five crying children. The father is grimly pushing a pram filled with suitcases, packages and other possessions. The text implies that the only way to get to South Karori was by walking, the "car" being the pram. The verso has a handwritten message dated 18 December 1908. The picture on the postcard was a generic cartoon by British cartoonist "Cynicus", applied to the local situation. In November 1907, as reported in the Evening Post for 11 November 1907, page 2, a petition was being circulated, with the following wording: "We, the undersigned residents, ratepayers, and citizens of tha city of Wellington, residing on the western portion of Kelburne, in Upper Taitville, in Highbury, and in the portion of the Borough of Karori recently amalgamated with the city, respectively petition your council to extend the Aro-street tramway, which at present terminates at a very unsatisfactory point, to the end of Norway-street, at the foot of the zigzag connecting such street with the main road from Te Aro to Karori (known generally as the Cemetery -road). Your petitioners desire to point out that such tramway extension will not only be a great convenience to the district referred to, which at present is not properly served by a tramway, but will also tend greatly to make the Aro-street section a better paying one than it is at present." The Evening Post of 27 July 1909, page 7, reports that the loan to extend the tramway to South Karori has been approved. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 89 x 140 mm.

Date: 1911

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating the Continuance campaigns to ensure the continuation of alcohol and liquor sales in New Zealand. 1800s- ]

By: Cynicus Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-ALCOHOL-Continuance-1911-03

Description: Postcard printed on an absorbent surface shows a softened image flock of five bluebirds flying against a gradated orange-yellow evening or morning sky. The verso shows a handwritten message addressed to Mr Hill & Co, Central Hotel, Napier: "Did you get the card? I just want to say that if some of you don't send me newsy letters, well - your luck will be right out on Election Day, [signed] L" Date estimated from date of the penny "Dominion" postage stamp attached, and the date of an election referendum concerning prohibition. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on postcard 89 x 138 mm.

Date: 1909

By: Cynicus Publishing Company Ltd; Anderson, Martin, 1854-1932

Reference: Eph-A-HUMOUR-1909-01

Description: Postcard shows a solitary man kneeling at his hearth, blowing air on to a fire which will boil the kettle above it. The heels of his socks are worn. A plaque on the wall reads: "What is home without another". The printed words: "To an Auckland bachelor" have been changed to read: "From an Auckland bachelor" The handwritten message from "NW" on the verso reads: "Tuesday Nov 2nd 1909. Hope you are having a good time down there, & having better weather than we are for it has been raining & blowing ever since you left. How was the port-hole, & don't whistle till the morning. Remember me to all the rest. Tell Mum everything in the garden is lovely". Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on card, 140 x 89 mm.

Date: 1910 - 1920

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1900-1919]

By: Cynicus Publishing Company Ltd; D. G. (Artist), active 1910?

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1910s-01

Description: Shows a supposedly humorous illustration of a Maori in traditional costume, seated in front of a cauldron eating a sheep's head, with a tethered lamb and slaughtered sheep nearby. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard. Physical Description: Photolithograph on postcard 140 x 89 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Nigel Thorp in the 1990s.