John Gartner was a fine printer and publisher, an author, a noted philatelist, and also collector of Australian banknotes and coins. He was born on 16 July 1914 and was largely self-educated, leaving school at fourteen for work following the death of his father. Gartner developed a strong interest in the history of typography and printing and was apprenticed at the Advocate where his father had been a linotype operator. Aged 17, Gartner bought a hand press and some fonts of type, and in 1937 acquired a platen press from which he set and printed his private press books, published under the imprint of The Hawthorn Press. Gartner had a strong collection of Australian bookplates. He also looked at the work of artists overseas and commissioned personal plates. He subsequently built an international collection with preference for artists who printed from wood. His initial searches were in Belgium and Holland.(http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-84/t1-g-t7.html) Nude woman with what could be her daughter peering from foliage at nearby flowers Signature and the numbers 86/480bookplate, australian bookplate design award, keith wingrove memorial trust, printmaking, life drawing

Part of 'Woolcock Gallery Collection' Exhibited CEMA 1989.Two drawings of two different plants. On left is a stem with woody central stem, densly foliaged elongated leaves with dark green top and pale underside. Three long-stemmed flowers are at top of plant, with yellow petals on grey multiple sepals. At centre of image is a flower detail of this plant. Drawing at right is a plant with fine, long leves and small, button-like yellow flowers with grey multiple sepals. To the far right are two details of these flowers. Mounted in double matt (grey on peach), framed in gold wooden frame under glass.Front: Leptorhynchos squamatus (Scaly Buttons), Leptorhynchos tenuifolius (Wiry Buttons) (lower left) (pencil). CE Woolcock (lower right, signature) (pencil). Back: 18 (upper left) (pen)cema, botanical, collin woolcock

Doily, round, curved edges, cream cotton, brown hand crocheted border Brown cross stitch 'frame' with cross stitch flowers in purple, yellow and orange, and lazy daisy stitch flowers in blue. Measures 21 cm in diameter.

A dark grey, cylindrical pottery canister with dark blue decorations.An engraving of the word Meel with a dotted border is on the front of the jar. A protruding handle is found on each side of the container. The decorations are of flowers and ferns.

Item is part of the Jennifer Read collection of item acquired by her grandfather during WWI in France A rectangular shaped brass desk top picture frame with tin photo/picture holder on the reverse side and a support leg painted blackEngraved with words, "SOUVENIR & FRANCE"; a potted flower on each side and on the top right and left hand corners in the sun with shinning rays