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	Name/title	Maker	Production date	Description
	Lime Product Sample Agricultural Lime		Circa 1970s	A glass jar with a white metal lid containing white powder. The typewritten label reads: Sample of agricultural lime, calcium carbonate CaCO3 From Taylor's Lime Co. Ltd, Weston. Employs seven men. Quarries and crushed approximately 65,000 tons limestone annually. Sells approximately 50,000 tons of output for agricultural purposes and 15,000 tons of output for industrial use - to McDonald's Oamaru Lime Ltd.
	Lime Product Sample Calcium Hydroxide		Circa 1970s	A glass jar with a white metal lid containing white powder. The typewritten label reads: Sample Hydrated Lime Calcium hydroxide. From McDonald's Oamaru Lime Ltd, Weston. Employs 14 men. This works manufactures about 70% of New Zealand's requirements of hydrated lime. Present output approx. 9000 tons. Used in freezing works in fellmongery departments, in manufacture of gelatine, in purification of raw sugar, in purification of city water supplies, in building industry for mortars and plaster work, in rubber works, in sprays for orchards.
	Apothecary Jar	York Glass Co.	1860s	A large decorative glass apothecary jar for display in a chemist shop. Painted brown with polychrome and gold decoration and a gold lid. Labelled as Peruv. Bark. Decorated with a crown. The jar has the painted motto "honi pense qui mal y soit" Peruvian Bark was a historical name for a remedy used to treat all forms of malaria. Originally displayed in Lanes Chemist Tees Street, Oamaru.
	Campaign Ale	North Otago Brewery (estab. Circa 1876, closed Circa 1915)	Circa 1906	Dark green glass bottle. Labelled "Campaign ale. Non-intoxicating". "Brewed and bottled by R. Shand and Co., Ribble Street, Oamaru".
	Bottle of Stout	North Otago Brewery (estab. Circa 1876, closed Circa 1915)	Pre 1905	Green glass bottle with contents intact. Label reads "Extra double brown stout". "North Otago Brewery. Prime North Otago. Brewed and bottled by R. Shand and Co. Oamaru. Stout Prime invigorating and nourishing. Stout."
	Sea Trunk		Circa 1864	Wooden trunk that belonged to James Little of Corriedale. Used by James in 1864 when he came to Canterbury, New Zealand as a shepherd. Quite plain on outside. Opening the lid one finds a deep recess with, near the top, a small unlidded compartment. On the bottom of this compartment, are two little drawers, 245mm long x 142mm wide x 55mm high. One of the drawers has a small brass ring as a handle (the other one is missing). There is a large drawer beneath the main compartment. The lid has two, black metal hinges, rather narrow. Written in pencil inside the lid is James Little - Baittaws [?], Lamington, 1862'. Lamington is in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
	Steinecker beer bottle		1962	First bottle of beer sold in Oamaru under Trust Control on Saturday March 24th 1962. This ended decades of prohibition in Oamaru. Purchased by Bill Burns, then Curator of the Pioneer Gallery, at the Wear Street Bottle Store. "STEINECKER STEINECKER LAGER BEER. CONTENTS 12 FL OZ NETT." Small brown bottle with contents intact. A photo of this purchase is in the Oamaru Mail on 26 March 1962 p. 4
	Untitled (No 133; Cubist Still Life )	Struyk, Hubert .S. (b.1923, d.1978)	1983	Still Life with Fruit in the Cubist Manner
	Lane's Emulsion bottle			Lane's Emulsion bottle with a screw top and label. Bottle has "LANES EMULSION" embossed on both sides. 190 mm x 70 mm x 50 mm. Label is a little worn but readable. Metal top has Lanes Emulsion.