Mail-order business

Date: 2008

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to timber, the timber industry, wood products in New Zealand]

By: Avon Picture Mouldings Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-TIMBER-2008-01

Description: Illustrated catalogue for a company selling picture mouldings, mat cutters, matboards (whitecore, silkscreen, suede, acid-free); adhesive tapes. There is a comprehensive price list included. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Looseleaf pages for ring binder, 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated through Legal Deposit, 2008.

Date: 1950

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1950-01

Description: Lists goods for sale, from this mail order specialist of 63 years standing. A general grocery and provision store advertising food parcels for Britain, hardware, toiletries, confectionery, boots and slippers, seeds, cow covers, calf meal, spraying materials, medicines, fishing gear, Taubman's Paints, Hume Pipe Company's products, drapery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: l Booklet of 16 pages, 276 x 212 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in May 2001.

Date: 1954

By: H H Brandon Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1954-01

Description: Lists goods for sale, some illustrated. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume, 247 mm.

Date: 1976

From: [New Zealand ephemera of octavo size concerning clothing, costume, fashion and dress. 1970-1979]

By: Varga (Firm); Owen, Dylan, 1958-

Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1976-01

Description: A sales catalogue with samples of the various fabrics available: doubleknit trilobal jersey, doubleknit nylon interlock, doubleknit polyester/cotton, doubleknit denim twill, doubleknit stretch polyester / cotton denim, doubleknit polyester jersey prints, doubleknit trilobal jersey prints, doubleknit polyester / cotton prints, doubleknit polyester plain. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and collaged fabric, on pages, each 215 x 139 mm. corner-pinned into a booklet Provenance: Donated by Mr Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: 1961

By: Valintines (NZ) Ltd; Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1961-01

Description: Contains a price list of all goods available : hardware, electrical equipment, war surplus, camping equipment, hydraulic equipment, mechanical equipment, tools, torches, radio equipment, lifejackets, saddlebags, outdoor gear. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 108 pages, 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1952

From: Farmers' Trading Company: [Sales catalogues of octavo size. 1920-1960s]

By: Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-FTC-1952-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for the Famers' Trading Company shows men's and women's clothing, books, shoes, fabrics, blankets and towels, household linens, tennis racquets, grain and produce, tents, deckchairs, camping equipment (including thermette), glasshouses and garden sheds, toiletries, radios, appliances, cameras, movie projectors, toys, kitchenware, cleaning equipment, tools, gardening equipment, stoves, motorboats, paints, motor cycles, kitchen cupboard units, bedroom and lounge furniture. Coloured cover illustrations are of women's dresses, Monarch bicycles, Monarch sewing machines. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 98 pages, 237 x 170 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Webbs Auction, 19 November 2008, lot 31.

Date: 1908 - 1912

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1900-1910]

By: Robert Rew (Firm); Abel, Dykes Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1910-03

Description: Mail order catalogue for the Country Order department of a retail store in Auckland. Merchandise is listed in the following categories: grocery, provisions, patent medicines, toilet requisites, stationery, ironmongery, rattan bamboo & rush furniture, china glassware and crockery, Japanese (mainly tableware), boots and shoes, woven wire mattresses, flax and kapok mattresses, manures, agricultural seeds, garden and vegetable seeds, separators, children's page (with confectionery and Christmas stockings) Other Titles - Three Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 56 pages, 248 x 155 mm.

Date: 1949

From: Farmers' Trading Company: [Sales catalogues of octavo size. 1920-1960s]

By: Farmers' Trading Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-FTC-1949-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue for the Famers' Trading Company shows English twill sheets on the front cover. Inside are advertisements for men's women's and children's clothing, manchester, shoes, the "Starkie" washer boiler, the "Guyro" dryer, furniture, tableware, watches and clocks, Mullard radios, electric water heater, Goblin de luxe vacuum cleaner, "Jiffy" electrical appliances, leatherware, saddlery, cow covers, Swing "Safety" rocking horse, grain and produce, and "Buncle" green feed cutters. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Soft-bound book of 24 pages, 235 x 184 mm. Provenance: Donated by Maree Pavletich, Papakura, in 2017.

Date: 1996

From: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues of quarto size relating to sound recording and the recording industry, records and gramophone equipment, mainly in New Zealand]

By: Flying In Distribution (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-PHONO-1996-01

Description: Catalogue listing imported and local sound recordings available through Flying In. Also lists a small selection of books, magazines, videos, imported t-shirts and Flying Nun merchandise. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph Stapled booklet of 9 sheets, 210 x 297 mm.

Date: 1996

From: [Ephemera, advertising and sales catalogues of quarto size relating to sound recording and the recording industry, records and gramophone equipment, mainly in New Zealand]

By: Flying In Distribution (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-PHONO-1996-02

Description: Catalogue listing imported and local sound recordings available through Flying In. Also lists a small selection of books, magazines, videos, imported t-shirts and Flying Nun merchandise. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph Stapled booklet of 9 sheets, 210 x 297 mm.

Date: 1986

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1986-02

Description: Sales catalogue for a mail order comapny in Meadowbank, Auckland, selling clothing, stationery and music cassettes. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 210 x 145 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1931

By: New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1930-01

Description: Includes advertisements and illustrations for items on sale at Farmers (Christchurch). Items include household and farm supplies. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sales catalogue of 336 pages, 272 x 215 mm.

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: 1956

From: [New Zealand ephemera of octavo size concerning clothing, costume, fashion and dress. 1940-1959]

By: Wayne Wentworth (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-COSTUME-1956-01

Description: Mail order catalogue shows photographs and illustrations of dress styles, with models called Sarah, Ruth, Lena and Zenda. Includes, men's, women's and children's fashions. The fabrics used include: rayon gaberdine, velour, fur (beaver coney, silver grey coney, squirrelette, silver fox), worsted, nylon, wool, brushed rayon velour, jersey silk, moss crepe, boucle, jersey wool, fibro wool, woolana. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 34 pages, 220 x 145 mm.

Date: 1926 - 1927

By: Farmers' Trading Company; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-FTC-1926-01

Description: Illustrated mail order sales catalogue for the Farmers' Trading Company store in Auckland gives ordering instructions and rail freight details. Merchandise includes sewing machines, phonographs, radiola, furniture and carpets, motorcycles and bicycles, made to measure clothing, Wolseley cream separator, pedal cars on the roof of the Farmers', aluminiumware, banking, bedding, shoes, phonographs, crockery, cutlery, tableware, lampware, linoleum (2 colour plates on one loose sheet), grocery, haberdashery, horse and cow covers, milking machines, musical instruments, paints, patent medicines, pianos, poultrykeepers' supplies, saddlery, seeds, spray pumps, tools, toys, tents, wallpapers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 580 pages, 267 x 210 mm. Provenance: Purchased from A & S Gallagher, in 2011.

Date: 1982

From: [Miscellaneous ephemera related to selling and advertising of merchandise in retail outlets. 1982. Folder 2]

By: Valintines (NZ) Ltd; Stone, Arthur Richard (Dr), active 1970-2000

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1982-01

Description: Lists and illustrates goods for sale, including camping equipment, watches, binoculars, outdoor clothing, digital alarm clocks, multitesters, burglar alarms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 24 pages, each 274 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr A Richard Stone in 2002.

Date: 1894

By: Kirkcaldie & Stains Ltd; Brown Thomson & Company

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1894-01

Description: Mail order catalogue listing women's and girls' jackets and hats, coloured dress materials, lace, hosiery, umbrellas, gloves, haberdashery, manchester, flannels, household linen, furnishings, curtains, blinds and hollands, mattresses and bedding, floorcloths and rugs, linoleum and carpet, men's and boys' clothing. There are a few illustrations of the men's, women's and girls' clothing. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 60 pages, each 200 x 134 mm. Provenance: Purchased at New Zealand Book Auctions, 22 February 2009

Date: 12 Mar 1972

From: Open Country Sound Recordings

Reference: OHInt-0002/391

Description: Diana Greenshill turns back the years and remembers the Aladdin's Cave of the old mail order catalogues and gives a list of the hundred-and-one temptations that were available through one's mailbox. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Jim Henderson, presenter Venue - NZBC Studios, Wellington. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT5-0402 Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). 1 event(s). 12 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other no script available.

Date: 2000

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to supermarkets, grocery stores, shops selling food]

Reference: Eph-B-FOOD-Shop-2000-01

Description: Booklet listing products for sale, with photographs: prepared dishes, using beef, lamb, cervena and veal, pork, poultry, game birds, gourmet sausages, salmon, cheeses, sweets and coffees, condiments. Pages 25-26 show a gift selection. There are pages showing how the food is packed and delivered to the buyer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 27 pages, 210 x 275 mm.

Date: 1967 - 1968

By: Public Service Investment Society; Roberts Printing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-PSIS-1967-01

Description: Illustrated mail-order sales catalogue lists a wide range of consumer goods and household items for sale: electrical appliances and whiteware, gramophones and televisions, lawnmowers, bicycles, washing lines, tools, kitchenware, furniture, paint, shoes and clothing, a Manatunga Maori-patterned rug, bedding, Cintique lounge suites. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 80 pages, 243 x 183 mm. Provenance: Donated from the collection of Tony Murray-Oliver, 1987.