Stationery

Date: 1934

By: Equipment Ltd (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-B-PRINTING-1934-01

Description: Folder contains specimens of tickets, envelopes, invoices, letterhead, and correspondence all made using a multigraph. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown folder of light card, 288 x 225 mm, with two metal split pins holding contents

Date: 1916

By: Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1916-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the company which merged in 1918 with the Farmers' Union Trading Company, to become the Farmers' Trading Company. Inside front cover shows a calendar for the last part of 1915, and January-September 1916. There is a foreword by company founder Robert Laidlaw, photographs of the Auckland sales staff, photographs of the showrooms of each department and portraits of the staff who ran them; photographs of office staff at work and the shop equipment (entrance stairs, elevator, employees dining room, currant cleaner and raisin stemmer, the packing department), and an illustration of the warehouse on the corner of Hobson and Wyndham Streets. There follows an advertisement for the company's book of plans and specifications for houses, and an account of the way the war was affecting prices and supplies of goods (See pages 18-21). Information about ordering, paying and freighting follow. The illustrated catalogue of goods is arranged in the following sections: grocery, patent medicines, ironmongery, tools and household ironmongery, stoves (Dover, Orb, Zealandia, Champion), sheep shearing machine, roofing iron, tinware, enamelware, cutlery, aluminium, brushware, handbags, pipes, wallpaper (with 2 colour sample pages), stationery, books, cameras, rifles and pistols (guns), tennis rackets, bicycles, telephones, gramophones, violins, electroplated goods, jewellery, watches, clocks, windmills, pumps, buggies and wagons, engines, ploughs, crockery (2 colour plates), lamps, saddlery and harnesses, luggage, boots and shoes, clothing, hats, drapery, haberdashery, lace, rugs, sewing machines, furniture, linoleums (2 colour plates), toys (including Meccano). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Catalogue of 500 pages, each 277 x 220 mm, blue paper covers, bound in brown suede with gilt lettering Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 33

Date: 1884

By: Otago Co-operative Association; Evening star (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1884-01

Description: The price list of an association that aimed to supply goods directly from manufacturer to purchaser, with no charges incurred by middlemen. Purchasers paid an annual fee of 5 shillings for membership of the association. Merchandise included grocieries, drapery, shirts, boots & shoes, stationery, earthenware, ironmongery, coals and wood, jewellery, baskets, chemicals (drugs & medicines), and pianos. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Letterpress on pages of booklet of 38 pages, each 217 x 142 mm. Provenance: Purchased from New Zealand Book Auctions postal auction, November 2004, lot 146.

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-388-003

Description: Shows a book shop packed with school children and parents buying stationery for the new school year. Three shop assistants are looking across the street towards a shop called 'General Drapers', where the shop assistants are laughing at how busy the book shop is Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and white corrector on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1950 - 1969

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-388-010

Description: Shows a woman shopping for school books in a shop called 'School Requisites'. The shop is incredibly busy because other mothers are doing the same thing. The woman has brought a wheelbarrow to the shop so she can carry all of her purchases home Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 255 x 280 mm

Date: 1980-1999

By: New Zealand. Department of Survey and Land Information; Paper Plus (Firm); University of Auckland

Reference: Eph-A-STATIONERY-1980/1999

Description: Comprises ephemera of octavo size related to stationery from 1980 to 1999. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 23 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 1980 - 1990

From: [Three dimensional curios in the Ephemera Collection]

Reference: Eph-018

Description: Stamp to be inked and used on tax-related stationery. Shows the GST tax number of the company using this stamp. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Stamp block, 15 x 60 x 21 mm, with adhered plastic text pad, and black plastic handle Provenance: Donated in 2014 (see custodial notes for identity of donor)

Date: 1920 - 1929

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-STATIONERY-1921-01

Description: Scrapbook of samples: Writing pad covers for: Page 1. No 10. Belles lettres tablet, illustration by Geo Bottomley Page 2. The blue bird writing tablet (good luck) Page 3. The pillar of society (red letter box), Regd 1255 Page 4. The Century writing tablet Page 5. Friendship. W & T series Page 6. The Calendar writing tablet (Calendar 1921) Page 7. The Excellent Quaker linen writing pad Page 8. The British Mail writing tablet. No. 17 Page 9. The Panama writing tablet. Registered Page 10. The concrete writing tablet; an extra strong writing paper. No. 16 Page 11. The Excelent lavender linen writing pad Page 12. The Lady Patricia writing tablet Page 13. The Lady Macdonald writing tablet Page 14. The Excellent white linen writing pad Page 15. The Century writing tablet. 14, smooth ivory finished paper Page 16. The British Mail writing tablet. No. 37 Page 17. The Collegiate writing tablet. No. 2 Page 18. Whitcombes Defiance school tablet Page 19. The "Express" writing pad, manufactured by Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, cheapest stationers in New Zealand. W&T no 44 Page 20. Blank Page 21. The University writing tablet. No. 3 Page 22. The High Schools writing tablet. Thick paper. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, booksellers and printers to the schools Page 23. The Scholastic writing tablet. No. 1 Page 24. The Blue Bird writing tablet {good luck) Page 25. The Monster high school writing tablet, No 2. 50 leaves; 100 pages Page 26. Whitcombe's Eclipse writing tablet Page 27. W&T Lower school writing tablet Page 28. W&T actuary tablet Page 29. The Caligraph [sic] extra strong writing tablet, ruled. [No.] 12 Page 30. The Pacific writing tablet [No.] 30 Page 31. The Caligraph [sic] extra strong writing tablet, ruled. [No.] 32 Page 32. The Foreign Mail writing tablet. [No.] 33 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album of 46 leaves in green morocco cover 340 x 278 mm, bound with green tape Provenance: Donated by Whitcoulls Ltd in 1985.

Date: 1958

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-162

Description: Shows a family getting organised for the start of the school year. The parents are both repairing school uniforms, their son is carrying books and their daughter is holding a satchel Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, blue coloured pencil and white corrector on card, 255 x 318 mm

Date: 1933 - 1938

By: Ruapehu Ski Club; Rennie, William Stanley Norman, 1897-1976

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Ruapehu-1930s

Description: Three envelopes, of two different lettering designs. One is black and white text; the other is red print with the club's shield at top left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). 2 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Relief prints, on envelopes, sizes up to 94 x 154 mm. Provenance: Stan Rennie, father of donor, was secretary of the Ruapehu Ski Club until 1938. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at PA-Group-00727.

Date: 1920 - 1969

From: [Posters and advertising ephemera purchased 2016 at Art + Object. 1910-1960]

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-PRINTING-Whitcombe-1

Description: Includes: 1. Albion Wright Advertising. [Sheet of ten sticker designs for S.I.T.A. (South Islands Travel Association). 1930s?](2 copies) 2. Amberley Racing Club. Annual meeting, 6 May 1961. Official programme. Printed by the Christchurch Press Co. Ltd [Cover proofs only] 3. Bunting & Co. Ltd. The Craftsman; the perfect brush for professional painters ... [ca 1950s?] 4. Children's Week 1926, with the compliments of Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, printers & publishers. [Cover proof only] 5. F. Cooper Ltd. Coopers seeds of success. 1950 [Cover proof only] 6. Critchley's Anti-Blowfly-Oil (Trademark ABO) & Docking-Antispetic. The best blowfly preventive [1930s?] 7. Thomas J Clarke. Mr Chemist, here it is! The Clarke Q.S. tray units [ca 1931] 8. Daffodene Gardens. Incomparable daffodils 1949 [Cover proof only] 9. Disabled Servicemen's Re-Establishment League (Inc). Training the disabled; the work of the Disabled Servicemen's Re-Establishment League (Inc), New Zealand. [On verso] ... Buy disabled servicemen's products [ca 1948?] 10. Hororata Trotting Club annual meeting. Saturday 26th April 1958. official programme [Cover proof only] 11. Incomparable daffodils 1947 [Cover proof only] 12. Incomparable daffodils 1948 [Cover proof only] 13. Ivory Bros. Nelson & Motueka, NZ. Specialists in fruitgrowers supplies / Whitcombe's [1930s?] 14. Jeypine; refeshing as the mountain air! Jeypine the pine antiseptic and germicide 15. Lovely Akaroa, Canterbury N.Z. The riviera of Canterbury. [Cover proof only] 16. Mount Egmont [Cover proof only] 17. "Roc" Paints Ltd, Bangor & Kilmore Street, Christchurch New Zealand. Finest ground ready mixed paint, durable, lasting "Roc" brand / Whitcombes 49873 [1920s] 18. Stewart Dawson & Co. Watches, jewellery, silverware. 236 and 238 High Street Christchurch. Lyttelton Times Co. del [ca 1910?] 19. Timaru blankets made in New Zealand [cropped label] 20. Timaru rugs made in New Zealand [cropped label] 21. Waimate centennial, 1854-1954 [folded card] 22. J R Watkins Co. (N.Z.) Ltd. Colds and their relief [Pamphlet ca 1940-1950s] (2 copies) 23. J R Watkins Co. (N.Z.) Ltd. It's smart to shop the Watkins way 24. J R Watkins Co. (N.Z.) Ltd. Mary King deodorant powder. (Sheet of four repeated patterns) 25. Westport Technical High School. School song. verses by Norma K Metson; music by Vernon Griffiths. Christchurch, Whitcombe & Tombs 1945. 26. Whitcombe & Tombs. 1,000 Progressive manilla tags, best quality. Proof sheet showing designs for sizes 3, 2, and 1 [1950s?] 27. Your quick conversion table, issued with the sanction of the Decimal Currency Board [1967?] 28. TJE Ltd. With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Proof sheet "Ex-L-O" Crispette was advertised in Auckland Star, 18 March 1922, page 11 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 330 mm. Provenance: Likely to be from Ferrymead Printing Society, along with other lots purchased at the same time (eg lot 407).

Date: 1930 - 1965

From: [Posters and advertising ephemera purchased 2016 at Art + Object. 1910-1960]

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PRINTING-Whitcombe-1

Description: Includes: 1. Alpine Sales Ltd. Nabob flavoured cordial; lime [Sheet of four identical labels] 2. Canterbury Frozen Meat Company Ltd., Belfast, Canterbury, New Zealand. Lamb tongues. 12 ozs net. W & T Ltd. [Can label] 3. Canterbury Frozen Meat Company Ltd. Sheep tongues. Belfast, Canterbury, New Zealand. 12 ozs net. [Can label] 4. Canterbury Jockey Club. Canterbury Centennial New Zealand Cup meeting 1950. First day / Christchurch Press Company Ltd [Proof only] (2 copies on one sheet) 5. Canterbury Jockey Club. Royal meeting, Riccarton Racecourse, Saturday 16th February 1963 [Cover proof sheet only](Damaged) 6. Davis Gelatine (N.Z.) Ltd. Product of New Zealand. Finest quality Davis standard agar. Net weight 40 lbs 7. C R Fairbairn Ltd, Christchurch. Giant fairy roll. Fairy-Roll keeps food fresh & tasty; continuous greaseproof roll for all cooking, luncheon and domestic purposes. [Packaging?] 8. Hermitage. Christmas greetings. Christmas dinner 1956 / W & T Ltd Print 16015 [Menu cover proof only] 9. Hokitika Bowling Club. Certificate, champion rinks 10. Jeypine, the pine antiseptic and germicide. Refreshing as the mountain air! [Proof sheet] (2 copies) 11. S. Kirkpatrick & Co. Ltd. Fresh 'K' fruit jam; strawberry conserve. Net weight 6 lbs / Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd F 7915 12. S. Kirkpatrick & Co. Ltd. 'K' tomatoes (whole). Net weight 1lb 12 ozs / W & T Ltd 13. New Zealand Trotting Association. Official standard bred certificate [Blank] 14. Swift New Zealand Company Limited. Springhill solid pack tomatoes. Net weight 1 lb 12 ozs. 15. Swift New Zealand Company Limited. Swift selected whole tomatoes. Net weight 1lb 12 ozs. 16. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. Greetings of the season; a magazine subscription has been entered in your name to ... with season's greetings from .... [Greeting card proof only] 17. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. Now ready, Whitcombe's New Zealand diaries 18. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. This is to certify that .... Lithographed by Whitcombe & Tombs Limited [Blank certificate] 19. Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. Whitcombe's farmer's diary 1963 [Cover spread proof only] 20. Swift New Zealand Company Limited. Swift concentrated tomato soup. Net weight 1 lb 14 ozs. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 550 mm. Provenance: Likely to be from Ferrymead Printing Society, along with other lots purchased at the same time (eg lot 407).

Date: 1930 - 1965

From: [Posters and advertising ephemera purchased 2016 at Art + Object. 1910-1960]

By: New Zealand Railways. Publicity Branch; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PRINTING-Whitcombe-2

Description: Includes: 1. Bliss supersedes soap. The magic wash for woollens, fine fabrics, dishes, everything! (Proof sheet)(2 copies) 2. Cadbury's drinking chocolate (Proof sheet) 3. Chandler & Co. Ltd. Go to Bruce's shops for cakes, pastries, sponges. "Try our honey bread; it's great" [1930s?] 4. Edmonds sure to rise quality products [Edmonds cake baking powder, Edmonds jelly crystals, Edmonds artificial vanilla custard powder, Edmonds Acto baking powder, Edmonds finest maize cornflour, Edmonds sponge mix, Edmonds baking powder]. Proof sheet 5. Empire Rubber Mills Ltd, Woolston. New Empire moulded straight inflations (Packaging proof sheet, light card) 6. Godfrey Phillips (Aust.) Pty Ltd. Greys is great. 1/2 lb jar 7/-; 2 oz tin 1/9; 1 oz pkt 10 1/2. (Proof sheet) 7. Grogan's Cordials Ltd, Lord St., Greymouth. Orange, artificially coloured, preservatised (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) 8. Liquid Fli-Keelo kills flies, moths, mosquitoes, fleas. Pleasantly perfumed; harmless to human beings and fabrics (Proof sheet) 9. Mitchell's Prize crop; Silver Fern mild; Time for a Capstan; Ardath the English cigarette (4 strip packaging labels on one proof sheet) 10. Montgomery's Furnishings Ltd. Furniture, furnishings, carpets, linoleums at the most up-to-date modern showroom in Lower Hutt. Best value for cash or easy terms. Lower Hutt and at Oxford St., Levin (2 copies) 11. New Zealand Breweries Ltd. Bavarian Bitter old style beer, fully matured [Sheet of labels, 11 remaining out of 12] 12. Quill Morris (1936) Ltd. Coronet sarsparilla, compound beverage, extra special, contains preservative (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) 13. Speedee jugs; always leaders in the field / Railways Studios 14. Walker & Hall (N.Z.) Ltd. Safeguarded quality. Goldsmiths, silversmiths & Cutlers / Railways Studios 15. J R Watkins Co (N.Z.) Ltd. Watkins gift sets, Xmas club box (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) 16. J R Watkins Co (N.Z.) Ltd. Scalp tonic (Proof sheet of repeated pattern; for bottle label?) (2 copies) 17. J R Watkins Co (N.Z.) Ltd. Watkins violet talcum powder (Proof sheet of repeated pattern) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 550 mm. Provenance: Likely to be from Ferrymead Printing Society, along with other lots purchased at the same time (eg lot 407).

Date: 1950-1979

By: Croxley Stationery Ltd; John Dickinson & Co.

Reference: Eph-A-STATIONERY-1950/1979

Description: Comprises ephemera of octavo size related to stationery from 1950 to 1979, Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 16 pieces of ephemera.

Date: [1900s]

From: Hannah family: Collection relating to the Hannah family and R. Hannah & Co. Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-12046-17

Description: Contains an unused cheque book and unused R. Hannah & Co. Ltd stationery. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1977 - 1980

From: [Ephemera up to A3 size relating the the Post Office and postal and telegraph services. 1980-1989]

By: Pictorial Colourgrammes N.Z. (1977) Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-POST-OFFICE-1980-01/03

Description: Each aerogramme has one side blank for letter-writing. The other side shows: [Aerogramme 1]: Marineland Napier; Zoological Gardens Auckland; Mt Cook; Mt Egmont; Fox Glacier [Aerogramme 2]: Cable Car Wellington; Fox Glacier; Mitre Peak; Waitomo Caves; Angler N.Z. [Aerogramme 3]: Mount Ngauruhoe; Lake Taupo; Westhaven Auckland; Wellington City; Rotorua Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on sheets 202 x 297 mm.

Date: 1917

By: Farmers' Union Trading Company; John Sands Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-Farmers-1917-01

Description: Sales catalogue for the Famers' Union Trading Company. The first few pages shows portraits of the Farmers' Union presidents and leaders, including the Auckland Provincial Executive. There are also notices from the New Zealand Dairy Association, and exterior and interior photographs of the Farmers' Union buildings at various sites around Auckland, Contains illustrations of merchandise for sale include shoes and boots, china and glassware, electroplated goods, cutlery and jewellery, grocery and foostuffs, stationery, pipes, drapery, hats, coats, Petone rugs (colour plate), women's clothing, lace, boy's clothes, haberdashery, timber supplies, mantelpieces, pianos, sewing machines, beds, chairs, wardrobes and dressing tables, perambulators, tools, domestic hardware, rubber goods, guns, cars, farm machinery, bicycles, motorcycles, carpets, linoleums, curtains, linens, men's clothing, saddlery, horse collars and harnesses, horse coats, stirrups. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 344 pages, each 310 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: 2012

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023497

Description: Two cartoons relating to a $20.5 winning lotto ticket sold at Windsor Stationary and Lotto in north Invercargill. It is the South Island's biggest ever lottery win. Two versions of this cartoon are available Title from file name Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2000

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: Smith, Ashley W, 1948-; MG business - mercantile gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DX-023-007

Description: Shows three people standing in a lift. One man is holding a flip chart with the words 'harmless stationery junkie' written on it. He has pens clipped onto his sock and his pocket, a roll of labels spilling from his briefcase, rolled up papers under his arm, an envelope stuck to his tongue, a paper hat and memo notes stuck on his head and glasses. The other two people in the lifting are looking askance at him. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).