GROUP 1
Set ONE
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Maori Art postcards:
A series of eight chromolithographic subjects illustrative of Maori life from drawings by Benoni White. There are a further three cards which may have been the start of another series. William Potts was the lithographer for these early cards
The Maori Art cards were produced c1900 by A.D. Willis, a Wanganui printing firm run by printer Archibald Duddington Willis. Willis set up the Wanganui herald newspaper with politician John Ballance, a future premier of New Zealand. He later began bookbinding, publishing, and commercial printing, and published several series of Christmas and greetings cards featuring local elements and iconography.
Willis was a pioneer of the use of chromolithography in New Zealand and the most significant publisher of postcards, producing cards of quite extraordinary beauty and style to match the best anywhere in the world at that time. When he died in 1908 the business seems to have died with him.
SET TWO: Incomplete set of three.
Offered for sale is one complete set of eight postcards, one incomplete set of three and many individual postcards.
Ref: Rosslyn Joan Johnston Thesis Link to thesis
Please see descriptions of individual cards below.
SET ONE: Complete set of eight.
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A D Willis Postcards
Issued circa 1910
Card size: 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (13.8 x 8.8cm) approximately.
Postcard titles:
LINK to LARGER IMAGES x GROUP:
- GROUP 1:
- SET 1 (complete set of 8)
- 1 A secluded retreat
- 2 Rapids ahead
- 3 Canoe race
- 4 The old story
- 5 The bath
- 6 Fishing day in the Pa
- 7 Visitors
- 8 In search of foe
- GROUP 2:
- SET 2 (incomplete set; 3 only)
- 1 I'm a going milking sir...
- 2 Juvenile warriors
- 3 The warrior's defeat
- GROUP 3:
- Individual cards
- CARD (1) A secluded retreat
- CARD (3) Canoe race
- CARD (3a) Canoe race
- CARD (4) The old story
- CARD (4a) The old story
- CARD (4b) The old story
- CARD (4c) The old story
- CARD (5) The bath
- CARD (5a) The bath
- CARD (7) Visitors
- CARD (8) I'm a going milking sir...
- CARD (8a) I'm a going milking sir...
- CARD (8b) I'm a going milking sir...
- CARD (9) Juvenile warriors
- CARD (9a) Juvenile warriors
- CARD (9b) Juvenile warriors
GROUP 2
Set TWO
1.) I'm a going milking sir...;
2.) Juvenile warriors;
3.) The warrior's defeat;
Incomplete set of 3 post cards
Price: $250.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
GROUP 3
INDIVIDUAL Cards (from Set One & Set Two)
Individual CARD (1)
A secluded retreat
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (3)
Canoe race
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (3a)
Canoe race
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (4)
The old story
Price: $80.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (4a)
The old story
Price: $80.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (4b)
The old story
Price: $80.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (4c)
The old story
Price: $80.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (5)
The bath
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (5a)
The bath
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (8)
I'm a going milking sir...
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (8a)
I'm a going milking sir...
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (8b)
I'm a going milking sir...
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (9a)
Juvenile warriors
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
Individual CARD (9b)
Juvenile warriors
Price: $100.00 USD
(Includes shipping)
