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"Haere Mai"" / ""Welcome"" : The President of the New Zealand International Exhibition requests the honour of the presence of W. Lamb-Smith Esq. at the Ceremony of Opening the Exhibition at Christchurch New Zealand on Thursday November 1st 1906.
réf. 30970Christchurch NZ : s.n. July 1906. Small quarto 255 x 175 mm original thick grey paper covers the front with printed greeting in MÄori and English in silver lettering at head and foot with a shaped chromolithograph onlay 155 x 110 mm irregular at the centre depicting the welcoming figures of a MÄori woman and a European woman draped in the New Zealand flag standing before a MÄori carved gateway the rear with a printed silver fern and small shaped chromolithograph of the Exhibition seal onlaid; inside is the tipped-in lithograph printed invitation itself embellished with a MÄori motif at each corner and two bands of silver ribbon across the top and bottom with the name of the invitee in manuscript W. Lamb-Smith Esq. William Lamb Smith 1846-1910 Consul-General for Paraguay in Melbourne; a pristine example of this beautifully designed invitation. Other examples are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Christchurch City Libraries. unknown
Douglas Stewart Fine Books · Australie150,00 $AU≈ 94,32 €
