Metal plates; may be mounted on wood blocks.
Printing plates
Photo Engravers, Wyndham Street :[Three half-tone zinc printing blocks. 19--?]
By: Photo Engravers; Cable Price Downer; Brierley Investments Ltd
Reference: Curios-021-011/013
Description: Includes blocks for images as follows: Row of bells, the closest of which is engraved (to the memory of?) S A Rhodes and William Barnard Rhodes; the bells in place in a belfry; and a large cylinder tank made by Wm Cable & Co Ltd. Mrs S A Rhodes died in 1913. Quantity: 3 curio(s). Physical Description: Zinc plates on wooden blocks, sizes ranging from 105 x 157 mm, to 82 x 109 mm. Transfers: Part of Cable Price Downer papers, donated by Brierley Investments in 1998..
Copper engraving plate for Mrs Ernest C Little
Date: [ca 1920]
Reference: Objects-0588
Description: Maker(s) not identified. Small copper engraving plate for a visiting card, bearing the words Mrs Ernest C Little. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Engraved: Mrs Ernest C Little Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Engraving plate, copper 70 x 100 mm and envelope Transfers: Transferred from Photo Section. From the papers of the Little Family of Motueka (MS-Papers-2133) - From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-2133, transferred to Photographic Archive, then to Drawings & Prints, 7 October 1980. Processing information: Description edited as part of Objects survey, 2023. Previous reference: Curios-029-004. Previous title: [Artist unknown] :Mrs Ernest C Little [Engraving plate for visiting card, ca 1920].
Metal printing plate depicting Robert Muldoon
Date: [ca 1975-1984]
From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]
Reference: Objects-0899
Description: Printing plate of a cartoon by Ronald E Kennedy. Cartoon titled "Mr Muldoon took Labour's policy point by point and attacked it ... Lines from a recent news story". Shows Rob Muldoon taking an axe to Labour's policy papers, while Ronken's ever-present dog flees the scene. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Relief printing plate, 125 x 125mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Phyllis Kennedy, Hamilton, July 2012 Processing information: Description edited as part of Curios and Objects survey, 2022. Previous reference: Curios-045-003. Previous title: Kennedy, Ronald E, :Mr Muldoon took Labour's policy point by point and attacked it ... Lines from a recent news story. [ca 1975-1984]