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Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Ready Reckoner, The Express Ready Reckoner, circa 1920s
... Book - Ready Reckoner...The Express Ready Reckoner...ready reckoner... "The 'Express' Ready Reckoner", underneath "with All the Pence up to 1... - Ready Reckoner The Express Ready Reckoner This hard cover book ...This item was produced for commercial shops and other traders in a period, 1800 to the 1950s. They were used because they were extremely cost effective, speedy, easy to learn and simple to use. It was also at a time before pocket calculators and electric cash tills were produced. The reckoners were a fast and accurate accounting book for a ever increasing bulk purchasing industry. These reckoners were at the start of a business principle "time is money" The reckoner was also looked upon as a way of reducing staff errors in the calculation field. This reckoner was highly valued to a rural industry in the Kiewa Valley because of the bulk produce being bought and sold here. Produce such as milk, tobacco, cattle, timber and fruits relied on weights and quantities calculation for cost pricing. Electrical machines were not of use in "the field or paddock" where important price negotiations took place. For a successful business to keep going accuracy was upper most to producers. It was still a time where honest transactions built reputations and tardiness ruined them. It was a time when a producer's word was his bond and a gentleman's handshake was as good as a contract. This attitude lasted a lot longer in rural regions than in the city. A producer's reputation was based on face to face negotiations and honesty.This hard cover book (blue in colour) contains 210 pages of black numbers and headings on light yellow pages (aged). The numbers refer to calculations of per unit price of goods and percentages.Top of front cover "Inglis Reckoners" underneath "The 'Express' Ready Reckoner", underneath "with All the Pence up to 1(pound symbol), Interest, Wages, Discount, Tables Etc." The spine: The Express Ready Reckoner with all the pence up to 1 (pound symbol) Interest Wages Discount Tables &c." underneath " The Express Series Vol 1" at the bottom of spine "Gall & Inglis"inlis, ready reckoner, imperial calculations -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Book - Calculo - Every-Man's Ready Reckoner, 1946
... Calculo - Every-Man's Ready Reckoner...Calculo - Every-Man's Ready Reckoner...Ready reckoner...Calculo - Every-Man's Ready Reckoner Book Calculo - Every ...A ready reckoner including a wide range of information to facilitate everyday calculations prior to the widespread use of electrical calculators and devices. Published post 1945, the booklet also includes a chronology of World War 11 as well as a list of household antidotes in cases of poisoning.A reference guide of 32 pages plus cardboard covers. The volume has wire spiral binding. It includes a perpetual calendar. Other pages include tables, charts, dates, mathematical information and useful information for farmers including weights and measures and animal gestation periods.A ready reckoner including a wide range of information to facilitate everyday calculations prior to the widespread use of electrical calculators and devices. Published post 1945, the booklet also includes a chronology of World War 11 as well as a list of household antidotes in cases of poisoning.ready reckoner, calendars -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, The Victoria Gold Ready Reckoner
... The Victoria Gold Ready Reckoner....the victoria gold ready reckoner...The Victoria Gold Ready Reckoner... Reckoner. The Victoria Gold Ready Reckoner flagstaff hill ...The Victoria Gold Ready Reckonerflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, book, the victoria gold ready reckoner, ready reckoner -
National Wool Museum
Ready Reckoner
... Ready Reckoner...Ready reckoner, (bareme), giving yield and valuations...Ready reckoner, (bareme), giving yield and valuations....-and-the-bellarine-peninsula Ready Reckoner Ready reckoner, (bareme), giving ...Ready reckoner, (bareme), giving yield and valuations. Produced by the Commonwealth of Australia, Central Wool CommitteeReady reckoner, (bareme), giving yield and valuations.wool brokering wool sales, c. of a. - central wool committee, wool brokering, wool sales -
Orbost & District Historical Society
book, Warne Dollar & Cent Ready Reckoner, 1967
... Warne Dollar & Cent Ready Reckoner...accounting orbost-rifle-club ready-reckoner-warne decimal... - "Warne Dollar & Cent Ready Reckoner".... gippsland book Warne Dollar & Cent Ready Reckoner A small cream ...This book was used after the introduction of decimal currency in 1966. it was used by the Orbost Rifle Club. The Orbost Rifle Club existed in the early 20th century. (There are records from 1900). It folded in the late 1970's.Target shooting is one of the oldest organised sports in Australia. Records date back to the British Marines at Sydney Cove in 1788. The Victorian Rifle Association (VRA) was formed in 1860. One of the most important adjuncts to the militia system from 1903 to the re-organisation of 1912 was the role played by the Rifle Club movement in Australia. At the time, these clubs were seen as the reservoir of manpower for a potential guerrilla force should any invasion occur. For Australia, the invasion fear was uppermost in the minds of the population. So important were the rifle clubs for the defence of Australia that the Commonwealth provided the training staff, rifles and ammunition so the clubs could function. Members were drilled, wore uniforms and practised all the basic skills of soldiering as well as target shooting. The Orbost Rifle Club was active during this period. This item is an example of accounting practices during the transition to Decimal currency.A small cream coloured book with brown print on front cover - "Warne Dollar & Cent Ready Reckoner".inside cover - Ted Curtis 5 Lind Lane Orbostaccounting orbost-rifle-club ready-reckoner-warne decimal-currency -
Clunes Museum
Book - READY RECKONER AND WAGES BOOK
... READY RECKONER AND WAGES BOOK...ready reckoner....READY RECKONER. A HANDY BOOK FOR MARKET,DESK & COUNTER BEFORE... history document ready reader ready reckoner CALCUTION METHODS ...CALCUTION METHODS FOR WAGES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES1. WAGES BOOK - COMPRISING TABLES FOR CALCULATING WAGES 2.READY RECKONER. A HANDY BOOK FOR MARKET,DESK & COUNTER BEFORE DECIMAL CURRENCY.non-fictionCALCUTION METHODS FOR WAGES AND OTHER ACTIVITIESlocal history, document, ready reader, ready reckoner -
National Wool Museum
Booklet, Federal Award Rates and Ready Reckoner Tables and Woolclassers and shearing staff employees award rates
... Federal Award Rates and Ready Reckoner Tables and...Federal Award Rates and Ready Reckoner Tables...Federal Award Rates and Ready Reckoner Tables...-and-the-bellarine-peninsula Booklet Federal Award Rates and Ready Reckoner ...Federal Award Rates and Ready Reckoner Tables and Woolclassers and shearing staff employees award rates.Federal Award Rates and Ready Reckoner Tables and Woolclassers and shearing staff employees award rates.shearing farming, graziers' associations of victoria and riverina, shearing, farming -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Book, Standard Ready Reckoner, 1920
... Standard Ready Reckoner... ready reckoner...Standard Ready Reckoner. Hard cover book red with black... Reckoner Standard Ready Reckoner. Hard cover book red with black ...Standard Ready Reckoner. Hard cover book red with black printing. Spine missing, sticky tape in place of. Inscription on fly leaf 'K.B. Campbell 1929'. Letters and numbers written on back fly leaf.accounting, ready reckoner, standard units and measure, measurement -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO SALEYARDS COLLECTION: WARNE'S LARGE TYPE READY RECKONER
... BENDIGO SALEYARDS COLLECTION: WARNE'S LARGE TYPE READY...Bendigo Saleyards Collection - Warne's Large Type Ready...Red cloth covered titled Warne's Large Type Ready Reckoner... - Warne's Large Type Ready Reckoner Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd Red ...Red cloth covered titled Warne's Large Type Ready Reckoner Revised Edition 1943. Contents include: Decimal Conversion Tables, General Information, Simple Fractions, Rates Exceeding £1, Trade Discount & Duty Tables, Commissioon & Discount Tables, Table of Dates, Hourly Wages Tables, Conversion Tables, Money Weights and Measures (Imperial), The Metric System, Electrical Measures and Simple Rules in Mental Arithmetic.bendigo, council, cattle markets, bendigo saleyards collection - warne's large type ready reckoner, frederick warne & co., ltd -
Clunes Museum
Book, THE LITERARY PRESS LTD.,LONDON, READY RECKONER
... READY RECKONER ...SPEEDY READY RECKONER WAGES CALCULATOR... RECKONER WAGES CALCULATOR READY RECKONER Book BOOK THE LITERARY ...SPEEDY READY RECKONER WAGES CALCULATORlocal history, books, reference, books reference -
Anglesea and District Historical Society
Book, Cassell's Concise Ready Reckoner, Estimated date: 1926-37
... Cassell's Concise Ready Reckoner...CASSELL'S / CONCISE / READY RECKONER 1/6 / CASSELL ... Anglesea great-ocean-road Book Cassell's Concise Ready Reckoner ...Small red cloth soft covered book containing a collection of tables for "business and other purposes" by F. W. Dunn B.A.B.Sc. (Royal College of Science for Ireland) Australian Libraries I.D, - 42728500. Inside cover is written in pencil "Williams c/- Bill Moodie 68 Clarence St. EZ 202". 247 pages.CASSELL'S / CONCISE / READY RECKONER 1/6 / CASSELL pocket reference library, money, finance, currency -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Book, Collins Clear Type Press, Collins Handy Ready Reckoner 1920's
... Collins Handy Ready Reckoner 1920's...Small Reddish/Orange covered Ready Reckoner Calculations... grampians Book Collins Handy Ready Reckoner 1920's Small Reddish ...Small Reddish/Orange covered Ready Reckoner Calculations with tables of interest income and wage calculations. Danes Located in Main Street StawellDane Bro's Merchants Stawellshops, businesses -
National Wool Museum
Folder, Ready Reckoner
... Ready Reckoner...Ready reckoner giving yields and values....-and-the-bellarine-peninsula Folder Ready Reckoner Ready reckoner giving ...Ready reckoner giving yields and values.wool brokering wool sales, wool brokering, wool sales -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BOOK - THE VICTORIA GOLD VALUER'S READY RECKONER
... BOOK - THE VICTORIA GOLD VALUER'S READY RECKONER...A fairly well aged copy of the Victoria Gold Valuer's Ready... Valuer's Ready Reckoner which details gold prices, chemistry ...A fairly well aged copy of the Victoria Gold Valuer's Ready Reckoner which details gold prices, chemistry, and fossils of extinct animals. Has detailed writing of its previous owner on the first few pages.book, bendigo, mining -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Trade, Matheson's Australian Saw - Millers' Log and Timber Ready Reckoner by D. Matheson
... Matheson's Australian Saw - Millers' Log and Timber Ready...Ready Reckoners were published to assist tradesmen.../6' written in pencil Ready Reckoners were published ...Ready Reckoners were published to assist tradesmen to calculate the size, capacity etc. of timber as required in their everyday work.Ewen Wallace used this book on his property at Kergunyah.Brown linen cover with black print written on 4 lines with black line underneath each. On left side a double thin black line vertical. At bottom black writing. Title, in black, on spine. 120 pages.'Ewen D. Wallace' written in pen. '7/6' written in pencilsaw millers, ewen wallace, logs, timber, farms -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: THE VICTORIA GOLD VALUERS READY RECKONER, 1853
... GOLD VALUERS READY RECKONER... Valuer's Ready Reckoner and Assayers chemical guide'. Being... AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: THE VICTORIA GOLD VALUERS READY RECKONER ...Book; Cloth bound hard cover book - 'The Victoria Gold Valuer's Ready Reckoner and Assayers chemical guide'. Being a manual descriptive of the ordinary as well as the scientific modes of conducting assays; with tables for ascertaining the carat value of gold audits sterling value (Scoffern & Higgins) Spine missing. Inside front cover stamped Big Hill Mining Company.MCCOLL RANKIN & STANISTREETgold mining, miners' safety cage, gold valuers ready rreckoner, mccoll rankin & stanistreet -
National Wool Museum
Booklet, Shearing Ready Reckoners
... Booklet of ready reckoners with tables for calculations...Booklet of ready reckoners with tables for calculations...-and-the-bellarine-peninsula Booklet Shearing Ready Reckoners Booklet ...Booklet of ready reckoners with tables for calculations, produced by the Graziers' Association of Victoria.Booklet of ready reckoners with tables for calculations, produced by the Graziers' Association of Victoria.shearing, graziers' association of victoria, woods, mr george -
National Wool Museum
Ready Reckoner, Wages Ready Reckoners
... Ready Reckoner...-and-the-bellarine-peninsula Ready Reckoner Wages Ready Reckoners 8 22 June ...Folder of tables produced by Grazcos Co-operative Limited for calculating shearers' wages.8 22 June 1964 26 July 1965shearing, grazcos co-operative limited -
Blacksmith's Cottage and Forge
Book-reference, The Speedy Ready Reckoner
... The Speedy Ready Reckoner... Marsh goldfields Book-reference The Speedy Ready Reckoner Blue ...Alex Bryans worked as a night cartman for Mr Smith in Preston. Then A. Bryans worked as a business partner for Mr Smith in Werribee, as a night cartman. A Bryans married Mr Smiths daughter. He is the uncle of Brian Mayne, donor.Local historyBlue cover, blue printing, hard cover. Owners name and address inside front and back cover. Figures (numbers and sums) inside front and back cover.A.Bryans, eager Street, Werribee. Back cover, Alexander Bryans. stamp-"Victoria Stamp Duty 2d."book, reckoner -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Book - Home Business, Success Publishing Company, Ltd, The Simple Ready Reckoner - Success Series by Charles Platt
... The Simple Ready Reckoner - Success Series by Charles Platt... - Home Business The Simple Ready Reckoner - Success Series ...The picture on the front of this book depicts the female as the weaker sex unable to understand or work out numbers.This book may have been used in a Kiewa Valley business or farm.Thin soft covered red, black, fawn, brown book with picture of a female sitting down looking at this book while the male points to the ledger as if to show her how (the book) can be used. The book has a list of numbers - a Discount Table - giving how much a number of items cost at a given price. eg. 10 books at 3/- each = 30/-business, money, accounting -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, Coles Handy Ready Reckoner, 1900?
... Coles Handy Ready Reckoner.... 1905-1930 to calculate the market price of cherries. Ready ...Reckoner, including currency (pounds shillings and pence); interest tables.Reckoner, including currency (pounds shillings and pence); interest tables.Reckoner, including currency (pounds shillings and pence); interest tables.ready reckoners, moffatt, william james -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Disc Calculator
... New Style Ready Reckoner --- Made in Great Britian.... at top which allows manipulation of disc. New Style Ready ...Flat round disc enclosed in cardboard container with round thumbhole at top which allows manipulation of disc.New Style Ready Reckoner --- Made in Great Britian.instruments, measuring -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Functional object - Scales - gold weighing, c. 1854
... and gold ready-reckoner booklet... weights and gold ready-reckoner booklet Betty Vivian's maternal ...Betty Vivian's maternal grandfather was a gold miner at Majorca, near Maryborough Vic and the scales belonged to himBrass scales for gold, in wooden box, with brass weights and gold ready-reckoner bookletgold mining, scales, gold rush -
Clunes Museum
CHART
... ready reckoner.... by the Louden Machinery Co. gestation chart ready reckoner louden Louden ...This chart was a "trade loader" or advertising for the Louden Company who were manufacturers and retailers of agricultural equipment. The design of the chart was attributed to A.W. Shaw & Co. by the Louden Machinery Co.Buff cardboard chart with rotating disc of cardboard to enable calculation of gestation periods for common farm animals, pigs, sheep, horses, cows, dogs and rabbitsA. Pickford Clunes Anzac Oct 14thgestation chart, ready reckoner, louden -
Yarrawonga and Mulwala Pioneer Museum
Tractor calculator, Unknown
... A ready reckoner useful to the farmer during the 1950's..., harvesters etc (see photo) A ready reckoner useful to the farmer ...A ready reckoner useful to the farmer during the 1950'sSquare orange card with rotating wheel attached by a centrre metal stud. By aligning appropriate measures on the wheel and card it tells the farmer the approx number of acres that can be worked in a ten hour day with any tool or implement.Allis Chambers tracotr calculator. Tractor speed miles per hour. Width of cut in feet of ploughs, harrows, cultivators, combines, harvesters etc (see photo) -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Booklet, Compiled by John Flanagan, Adelaide, Calculo Every-man's Ready Reference, n.d
... Booklet-ready reckoner. Spirax wire binding covers yellow... Every-man's Ready Reference Booklet-ready reckoner. Spirax wire ...Booklet-ready reckoner. Spirax wire binding covers yellow ochre heavy card with red and black print. Inside pages lighter card, white, black print. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Book, 1963-1964
... and price. Twenty two pages. Conversion tables and ready reckoner... and ready reckoner for decimal currency. Front cover features ...Small pocket size booklet - red cover with black title and price. Twenty two pages. Conversion tables and ready reckoner for decimal currency. Front cover features sterling and decimal prices.books, reference -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - Molassine Blotter, 1910
... Dictionary, Atlas, ready reckoner, address book, at home days diary... to keep them when ill, also an English Dictionary, Atlas, ready ...Molassine was created in 1900 to exploit a secret formula for animal fed. The formula had been brought to Britain by Arthur Stein ‘a mid European probably hailing from one of the Balkan States’. At first the feed was made up by Henry Tate but in 1908 they began work in Greenwich. The molasses was bought locally from Silvertown and Plaistow refineries and the company built the first steel tanks for molasses bought from Danks, Steam Boiler Manufacturers, between 1910-1914. Their main product was a molasses based feed for horses - this consisted of sphagnum moss mixed with both beet and cane molasses and a ‘soupcon of maganesium calcum carbonate’. In the First World War this feed was considered antiseptic and soldiers used it as a plaster for wounds.Molassine Blotter Book published by the Molassine Company Limited, Tunnel Avenue, East greenwich, London, S.E. Red covered, it contains information Calendar for three years and information on domestic animals - how to keep them when ill, also an English Dictionary, Atlas, ready reckoner, address book, at home days diary etc.history, james lerk collection, molassine blotter -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Lily Sebire, Recipe book, c. late 1800's
... cover has a Henderson's Merchants' Ready Reckoner table....' Ready Reckoner table. Book belonged to Lily Sebire, the sixth ...A handwritten recipe book belonging to Lily Sebire. There are only a few recipes as this is a thin notebook..Black fragile small thin notebook of handwritten recipes belonging to Lucy Sebire in the late 1800's. The covers are very worn and the pages are torn, faded stained and heavily tanned. It is tied together with string at the top left hand corner. Inside the front cover is a calendar printed for 1889 and 1890. The back cover has a Henderson's Merchants' Ready Reckoner table.non-fictionA handwritten recipe book belonging to Lily Sebire. There are only a few recipes as this is a thin notebook..recipe book, cooking -
National Wool Museum
Handbook, 1966
... . Inside back cover has a foldable map. Back cover had a ready... back cover has a foldable map. Back cover had a ready reckoner ...Donated by Mrs Robyn Adams, daughter of Victor Clyde- a wool grower from North-Eastern Victoria who used this itemWhite paper booklet with four staples on left spine. Front cover has heading -ELDER SMITH / GOLDSBROUGH MORT / LIMITED-. at top centre. Text also reads -WOOL HAND-BOOK / AND WAYBILLS-. Text is black and there are four red horizontal bars on the cover. Inside front cover has list of points to remember. First pages have instructions. Booklet contains several lined yellow pages which can be copied with carbon paper, or removed. Inside back cover has a foldable map. Back cover had a ready reckoner printed.wool sales, wool auction, wool transport, mrs robyn adams, elder smith goldsbrough mort limited, dalgety and company limited elder smith goldsbrough mort limited