BCD Nov23 S&T William Ellis & Co Wonders of the World no12 200pc Centennial Exhibition New Zealand 1940 cardboard Sally G DSC09650
I didn't catch the information about Sally's first jigsaw. This third jigsaw is a vintage cardboard commemorative. It shows the 1940 New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and appears on pg97 of Tom Tyler's book. It is 14in wide and shows the 155ft Centennial Tower at night surrounded by powerful search beams. Unfortunately, the print colours haven't been properly registered, so the print is blurry.
You can see a short Pathe film taken at the exhibition including this view here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z7wJ_MDVlg
From Wikipedia:
The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition took place over six months from Wednesday 8 November 1939 until 4 May 1940. It celebrated one hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and the subsequent mass European settlement of New Zealand. 2,641,043 (2.6 million) visitors attended the exhibition.
The New Zealand Government staged the exhibition with assistance from local government, New Zealand industry and the New Zealand public. The exhibition received support from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Fiji and other Pacific islands who either constructed their own pavilions on site or had displays in one of the exhibition buildings.
The exhibition took for its site a location at Rongotai in Wellington, Edmund Anscombe designing the buildings and grounds in the Art Deco style. Construction began on 27 April 1939 by the firm Fletcher and Love Construction Companies and over 1,000 staff were employed in the process of building the exhibition. The exhibition grounds were just over 55 acres (220,000 m2) in size, with the main buildings accounting for around 14 acres (57,000 m2) of this.
Feature structures included:
- the Centennial Tower, the main focus of attention, standing 155 feet (47 m) tall and weighing 700 tons. This icon featured on many of the souvenirs celebrating the exhibition.
- a statue of a Neriad (a sea-woman on a seahorse) standing in the central fountain.
- the New Zealand Railways Department stand featuring a working model-railway constructed to scale and maintained by Frank Roberts (model maker).
2,641,043 (2.6 million) visitors attended the exhibition. The last time an event of such a scale had been held was the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in 1925–26, when 3.2 million visitors were counted at the exhibition in Dunedin.[6] Anscombe had also been the architect for the Dunedin exhibition.
The Te Papa Museum in Wellington has scores of pages of souvenirs of the event, but not this one.
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/43305
A small jigsaw showing an angled nighttime view similar to this one.
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/536761
A small jigsaw
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/536764
This page shows another jigsaw of a daytime scene.
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/212216
BCD Nov23 S&T William Ellis & Co Wonders of the World no12 200pc Centennial Exhibition New Zealand 1940 cardboard Sally G DSC09650
I didn't catch the information about Sally's first jigsaw. This third jigsaw is a vintage cardboard commemorative. It shows the 1940 New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and appears on pg97 of Tom Tyler's book. It is 14in wide and shows the 155ft Centennial Tower at night surrounded by powerful search beams. Unfortunately, the print colours haven't been properly registered, so the print is blurry.
You can see a short Pathe film taken at the exhibition including this view here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z7wJ_MDVlg
From Wikipedia:
The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition took place over six months from Wednesday 8 November 1939 until 4 May 1940. It celebrated one hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and the subsequent mass European settlement of New Zealand. 2,641,043 (2.6 million) visitors attended the exhibition.
The New Zealand Government staged the exhibition with assistance from local government, New Zealand industry and the New Zealand public. The exhibition received support from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Fiji and other Pacific islands who either constructed their own pavilions on site or had displays in one of the exhibition buildings.
The exhibition took for its site a location at Rongotai in Wellington, Edmund Anscombe designing the buildings and grounds in the Art Deco style. Construction began on 27 April 1939 by the firm Fletcher and Love Construction Companies and over 1,000 staff were employed in the process of building the exhibition. The exhibition grounds were just over 55 acres (220,000 m2) in size, with the main buildings accounting for around 14 acres (57,000 m2) of this.
Feature structures included:
- the Centennial Tower, the main focus of attention, standing 155 feet (47 m) tall and weighing 700 tons. This icon featured on many of the souvenirs celebrating the exhibition.
- a statue of a Neriad (a sea-woman on a seahorse) standing in the central fountain.
- the New Zealand Railways Department stand featuring a working model-railway constructed to scale and maintained by Frank Roberts (model maker).
2,641,043 (2.6 million) visitors attended the exhibition. The last time an event of such a scale had been held was the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in 1925–26, when 3.2 million visitors were counted at the exhibition in Dunedin.[6] Anscombe had also been the architect for the Dunedin exhibition.
The Te Papa Museum in Wellington has scores of pages of souvenirs of the event, but not this one.
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/43305
A small jigsaw showing an angled nighttime view similar to this one.
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/536761
A small jigsaw
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/536764
This page shows another jigsaw of a daytime scene.
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/212216