Description: Framed commemorative artwork featuring a specially embroidered commemorative shoulder badge of the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority- Bridge Control.Twenty copies of the work were commissioned in 1984 to mark the cessation of tolls on Auckland Harbour Bridge. An authentication certificate is glued to the rear of the work: [AUCKLAND HARBOUR BRIDGE AUTHORITY logo] / Bridge Control / EXECUTIVE / SHOULDER BADGES / 20 / ONLY/ No. 19 / MADE IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN / (signed by) Les Greenlees / BRIDGE SUPERINTENDENT. A sticker with the (corrected) handwritten date 30/03/84 is attached to the foot of the certificate.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2018.39.1Accession Date: 21 Aug 2018Description: Framed commemorative artwork featuring a specially embroidered commemorative shoulder badge of the Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority- Bridge Control.Twenty copies of the work…

Description: Formal New Zealand coat of arms comprising part of the signage attached to the external stone wall of the former Auckland Central Police Station on the corner of Cook & Vincent Streets in the central city.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2022.16.2Accession Date: 19 Aug 2022Description: Formal New Zealand coat of arms comprising part of the signage attached to the external stone wall of the former Auckland Central Police Station on the corner of Cook &…

Description: Pharmaceutical mortar and pestle used for preparing medications at Queen's Arcade Pharmacy or Westmere Pharmacy, Auckland

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2022.7.1Accession Date: 23 May 2022Description: Pharmaceutical mortar and pestle used for preparing medications at Queen's Arcade Pharmacy or Westmere Pharmacy, Auckland

Description: 97 ceramic gambling counters from Chinese gambling house, Greys Avenue, Auckland 1949, possibly for use in fan-tan; all counters similar in appearance; light green-grey glaze

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1984.287.1Accession Date: 23 Jan 2006Description: 97 ceramic gambling counters from Chinese gambling house, Greys Avenue, Auckland 1949, possibly for use in fan-tan; all counters similar in appearance; light green-grey glaze

Description: Small white souvenir ceramic model of Palace of Industries building from Auckland Exhibition 1913. Commissioned by department store Milne & Choyce.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2019.61.1Accession Date: 20 Sep 2019Description: Small white souvenir ceramic model of Palace of Industries building from Auckland Exhibition 1913. Commissioned by department store Milne & Choyce.

Description: fishing sinker, andesite. Oval shape with large perforation. Carved in spirals all over surface

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Date: 1908Description: fishing sinker, andesite. Oval shape with large perforation. Carved in spirals all over surface

Description: 14 letters that comprised the AUCKLAND POLICE signage attached to the external stone wall of the former Auckland Central Police Station on the corner of Cook & Vincent Streets in the central city.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2022.16.1Accession Date: 19 Aug 2022Description: 14 letters that comprised the AUCKLAND POLICE signage attached to the external stone wall of the former Auckland Central Police Station on the corner of Cook & Vincent Streets…

Description: clock, longcase, James Watt settled in Auckland in 1840. He is recorded as Auckland’s first jeweller, watchmaker and seal engraver, establishing his shop and living quarters in Shortland Crescent, later Street, in August 1841. It is said that the eight-day movement was made by Watt as an apprentice piece in Scotland. The case was made in Auckland. The clock was displayed in his shop window and became Auckland’s first town clock.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1982.282Accession Date: 03 Nov 1982Description: clock, longcase, James Watt settled in Auckland in 1840. He is recorded as Auckland’s first jeweller, watchmaker and seal engraver, establishing his shop and living quarters…

Description: vase, depicting queen street in the 1840s, with queen's wharf. for Auckland's centenary

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1990.201Description: vase, depicting queen street in the 1840s, with queen's wharf. for Auckland's centenary

Description: The name 'C. WRIGHT' is hand-printed in ink on a pocket bag. This was in the pocket of Army-issue greatcoat associated with Charley Wright, WW2 accession number 2018.62.1.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2018.62.2Accession Date: 18 Oct 2018Description: The name 'C. WRIGHT' is hand-printed in ink on a pocket bag. This was in the pocket of Army-issue greatcoat associated with Charley Wright, WW2 accession number 2018.62.1.

Description: Coupon book

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2014.58.2Accession Date: 04 Sep 2014Description: Coupon book

Description: pill coater

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDescription: pill coater

Description: plaster irons

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDescription: plaster irons

Description: Large clear glass carboys, stoppered, containing red & green fluid.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDescription: Large clear glass carboys, stoppered, containing red & green fluid.

Description: Glass bottle, round, brown.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDescription: Glass bottle, round, brown.

Description: Carboy. Opaque glass carboy with a lid. The ground is a white glaze, and the front of the carboy is decorated with a coat of arms in blue, red, yellow, and gold. Underneath the coat of arms is the word "MAGNESIA." The lid of the carboy is large and blue with gold flowers around the circumference.

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Date: UnknownDescription: Carboy. Opaque glass carboy with a lid. The ground is a white glaze, and the front of the carboy is decorated with a coat of arms in blue, red, yellow, and gold. Underneath…

Description: suppository machine, Dated 1895

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYDescription: suppository machine, Dated 1895

Description: calico or linen flour bag, 5lb, printed with producer name and product details:

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2022.4.1Accession Date: 17 Jan 2022Description: calico or linen flour bag, 5lb, printed with producer name and product details:

Description: calico or linen flour bag, 5lb, printed with producer name and product details:

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2022.4.2Accession Date: 17 Jan 2022Description: calico or linen flour bag, 5lb, printed with producer name and product details:

Description: kimono; black silk, unpatterned apart from 2 medallions on upper front and 1 on upper back; fully lined , top third in fine white silk, botton two thirds charcoal coloured silk ; fully hand made

Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 2005.69.3Accession Date: 12 Aug 2005Description: kimono; black silk, unpatterned apart from 2 medallions on upper front and 1 on upper back; fully lined , top third in fine white silk, botton two thirds charcoal coloured…