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  • A calendar painted on bamboo slats with a hunting scene in bright colours

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  • Close up of printing of butchers’s name

    Untitled image

  • A calendar painted on bamboo slats with a hunting scene in bright colours
  • Close up of printing of butchers’s name

Historical information

This item was bought by Lynda Tieman for the Port Fairy Historical Society. It represents a time in in Port Fairy when there were several butchers in the town and competition for customers was fierce. Norman Collins butchers was situated in Sackville Street where a dress shop now occupies the site.

Significance

An advertising piece that places Norman Collins as butcher in 47 Sackville Street and a rare example of this type of advertising.

Physical description

Bamboo, advertising,give away calendar with green ribbon hanger for Port Fairy butcher (calendar removed). Printed with rural scene of ducks and hunting dogs. Bamboo slats are joined by thread and the ribbon is attached to the top of the calendar for hanging. Calendar itself has been removed.

Inscriptions & markings

With Compliments from
Norman Collins Your Quality Butcher
47 Sackville Street, Port Fairy, Phone 56
For Friendly Service and Free Delivery

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