Post #756701 by swizzle on Sat, Jan 2, 2016 2:29 AM

So i bit the bullet and went back to the antique store today to buy this. It has been sitting in the store for at least a year now but i always thought it was a little too expensive for what it is. They seller would only take 10% off the cost even though it had been sitting there for so long and others, besides myself, had asked about her selling it for a more reasonable price. Regardless, after realising it had the same base as the piece i bought last week and posted earlier, i decided i would get it.

The books that came with it are, from L to R, a dictionary, 'Maori Place Names' and 'Illustrated Gospels In Maori'. They are dated 1957, 1962 and 1965 respectively. After doing a little research on Google i found this link.

http://ketenewplymouth.peoplesnetworknz.info/sovereign_woodware

If you click on the brochures link towards the bottom of the page you can find it, (No. 70A) on this link.

http://ketenewplymouth.peoplesnetworknz.info/documents/0000/0000/1409/1966-67_brochure.pdf

I was curious how old it was going by the date of the books and on another link i now know it was released in 1964-72. The Salt & Pepper shakers are listed also although i can't find the business card holder but going by the label on the bottom i'm pretty confident it is from around the same time.

[ Edited by: swizzle 2016-01-02 02:36 ]