Post #756724 by Club Nouméa on Sat, Jan 2, 2016 11:00 PM

On 2015-12-26 20:48, swizzle wrote:

And a very cool little business card holder. I had seen this piece in the store a while ago and when i was in today its price had been reduced so i grabbed it. Visually the space in the middle looked too wide to fit a business card but when i got home i tried one in there and it fits perfectly. The heads are exactly the same carving and size as the S&P shakers above. The description on the bottom lists in order, the native to New Zealand woods used in the strip along the middle of the piece.

[ Edited by: swizzle 2015-12-26 22:44 ]

Made in Wanganui!!!! Sovereign Woodworkers was a firm based in the Wanganui suburb of Gonville from 1949 to 1992. They made various products featuring tikis for the tourist trade.

Here is a link to a profile of the company and its products: http://ketenewplymouth.peoplesnetworknz.info/sovereign_woodware

The old Sovereign Woodworkers factory (shown in the first B&W photo on that Webpage) is now the home of one of the local charity stores and I have made various tiki finds in that very building over the years.

Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas !

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2016-01-02 23:01 ]

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2016-01-02 23:07 ]