Calendar
Production date
1910
Description
Calendar for 1910, with dark blue coloured card at top, and twined string loop for suspension. Wording reads “WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF JAS. WILSON, Coachbuilder, WHEELWRIGHT and GENERAL SMITH, INGLEWOOD.” In small print below “H.I. JONES & SON, Ltd., Wholesale Booksellers and Manufacturing Stationers, Wanganui, New Zealand.” Three large rusted metal staples secure twelve pages, one for each month, to card at top (first page, January, detached however). Each page has a photograph with brief caption, and border either side made up of linear patterning within repeating squares and rectangles, in the Arts and Crafts style. Significant dates are repeated at the bottom of each page.
Object detail
Folder
Calendar
January: “THE VILLAGE FORGE” – shows two men working in a forge, one fitting a horse with a shoe
February: “EXPECTATION” – shows four small dogs
March: “SONS OF TOIL” - shows man harnessing two horses to a plough in a field
April: “NEW ARRIVALS” – shows six chicks in a basket of straw
May: “A HIGHLAND CHIEF” – shows a large dark bull
June: “AT THE EDGE OF THE LOCH” – shows seven Highland bulls at the edge of a lake
July: “HAYTIME” – shows two men making hay piles with two horses alongside, and a full hay cart with two horse drawing and a man leading
August: “FEEDING TIME” – shows a woman in a field feeding calves from two metal pails
September: “HOLIDAY FAVOURITES” – shows a large and a small donkey
October: “ON GUARD” – shows a dog lying down, with captured bird (possibly a ptarmigan) at feet
November: “PRIZE WINNERS” – shows four rabbits
December: “A CRISP MORNING” – shows black-faced sheep on a snowy road
Reverse of calendar has the twelve months of 1910 shown as one.
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