[Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1913-01

Description: Cover shows coloured illustrations of the company's works at Oamaru, Islington, Burnside, Smithfield and Picton. Inside lists beef and mutton products, galantines, meat extracts, and other products such as sausages and pork brawn. A monochrome photograph of stacked tin goods appears inside. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on sales brochure.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 145 x 263 mm, folded to 145 x 102 mm

Date: 1900 - 1913

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

By: St. George Preserving & Canning Company Ltd; Mills, Dick & Company

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1900-02

Description: Label for packaging containing German sausage. The label states that the products of the company have won sixty awards, and that this product is "guaranteed perfectly pure of the finest material and free from all sinews and indigestable matter". Company logo at the left shows St George on horseback slaying a dragon. The word "German sausage" appears on an ornately bordered scroll. Likely to have been printed prior to 1914, when many "German" products changed their product descriptions. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 130 x 230 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antipodean Books Maps & Prints, Garrison NY, in 2014.

Date: 1900

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

By: Liebig's Extract of Meat Company

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1900-01

Description: Advertising card for Oxo meat cubes has French text, and the recto shows an ethnographic scene of Maori women and children bathing in a bay, with a whare at the far right. There is an illustration of a jar of meat extract at the lower left. The verso is also in French and has the text: "Cubes Oxo donnent immediatement un bon bouillon; ameliorent les potages ... Bouillon Oxo de la Cie Liebig; consomme exquis prepare avec les matieres extractives de la meilleure viande de boeuf et dument assaisonne". ("Oxo cubes make a good broth quickly, and improve soups. Oxo broth from the Liebig Company; delicious broth prepared with extract from the best beef and appropriately seasoned") Inset text on verso: "Comme tant d'autres peuplades primitives, les Maoris, indigenes sauvages de la Nouvelle-Zelande, n'ont pu supporter sans grands dommages le contact de la civilisation moderne, car leur nombre ne cesse de decroitre. Une de leurs principales occupations etant la peche, il importe qu-ils sachent bien nager, et de leur enfance, soutenus par leurs mamans, ils s'y exercent". ("As with so many primitive peoples, the Maori, natives of New Zealand, have not been able to survive contact with modern civilisation without great losses, for their number does not cease to diminish. One of their main activities being fishing, they must know how to swim, and they practice this from their infancy, held up by their mothers") Other Titles - Meat extract from the Liebig Company. Mother and child. At home with the Maori Date estimate is based on other similar cards issued by the company (See Wikipedia page about the company at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig's_Extra - retrieved 19 April 2010) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 71 x 111 mm.

Date: 1914

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1914-01

Description: Cover shows coloured illustrations of the company's works at Oamaru, Islington, Burnside, Smithfield and Picton. Inside lists beef and mutton products, galantines, meat extracts, and other products such as sausages and pork brawn. A monochrome photograph of stacked tin goods appears inside. 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 colour art print(s) on sales brochure.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 145 x 263 mm, folded to 145 x 102 mm

Date: 1906

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1906-01

Description: Price list has attractive engraved front showing a tin of cold cooked mutton, against a background of sheep and cattle grazing on either side of a stream. The back lists the prices of mutton, fancy goods, beef, soups, tongues, potted pastes, and extract of meat. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph and letterpress on both sides of sheet, 230 x 159 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 81-295, box 35. - Transferred from MS 81-295 (Box 35) in 2002 - Gear Meat Company papers..

Date: 1918

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to meat, the meat industry, cookery. 1900-1919]

Reference: Eph-A-MEAT-1918-01

Description: Front cover shows a coloured illustration of a can of cooked corned mutton. The inside spread lists prices for beef, mutton, tongues, fancy goods, potted pastes, and extract of meat. It emphasises the quality control, veterinary inspection and immaculate cleanliness exercised during the processing of the meat, "from paddock to package, from clover to can". It states that "the daily average consumption of water at the Gear Works approximates to 2,000,000 gallons, obtained from artesian wells. Quantity: 1 sales brochure.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on folded pamphlet, 166 x 119 mm.