Speciality Interests

Many of the club members have remarkable knowledge about subjects which may or may not include the subjects of their collections. If you are looking for speakers on any of the topics listed, please contact us. An indication of the range of collecting interests may be seen from the following images made up from displays from previous annual club shows:

A brief survey of club members at a monthly meeting resulted in the list presented below of speciality interests:

Antique sewing machines
Art Nouveau
Beer labels (NZ, Aust, UK)
Bicycle repair kits
Biscuit barrels
Bottles
Bottle openers (vintage cast iron, NZ products and companies)
Bread forks
Bronzes
Carlton ware
Cast iron office ware
Catalogues
Chemist/Pharmacy related items
Children’s annuals
China
18th century china
Christchurch postcards
Cigarette cards
Clocks
Coins
Cookbooks
Cookware (cast iron)
Crown caps
Crystal
Dairy cans
Dan Dare toys, books and ephemera
Die cast model cars
Dolls
Enid Blyton china
Glass
Glass rolling pins
Gramophones
Hoglund glass
Jelly moulds (glass)
Kitchen copper collectables
Lambeth Doulton
Match holders
Measures
Measuring devices
Meccano
Medals
Militaria (NZ)
Military collectables
Miners’ lamps
Miniatures
Mirror ware
Nautical collectibles
Needlework
Noddy and Big Ears
Nursery china
NZ cartoonist
NZ postal scales
NZ postcards
Old catalogues
Old keys
Paperweights
Pencil sharpeners
Pennants (NZ souvenir)
Phonographs
Pin cushions
Plates
Pocket knives
Pomanders
Records
Rules
Scales
Sewing accessories
Sewing memorabilia
Small frog and cat figures
Staffordshire figures
Stamps
Sugar sifters
Swizzlesticks
Swords
Talaware
Taranaki memorabilia
Tea caddy spoons
Teddy bears
Tennis collectables
Thomas Dam Trolls
Tins
Tonka toys
Toothbrush holders
Torquay pottery
Toy sewing machines
Toys
Trade and trading cards
Travellers samples
Tuscan plant garden figures
Vesta cases
Victorian gadgets
Victorian glassware
Vintage radios
Wedding photos
Weights
Wind-up gramophones
Wood working tools
WWI books and ephemera