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Lot Is Closed Missionary Presses - Te Tokomahatanga [Form of Return]
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Missionary Presses - Te Tokomahatanga [Form of Return]
Estimate:
$200 - $400
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$190
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191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 2: Online Auction (lot 95-432)
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Missionary Presses [2 Items]
Te Tokomahatanga [Form of Return]
Booklet of ten forms. No Imprint, John Telford records printing and binding 1000 copies in the second half of 1845 following the evacuation of the Church Missionary Society printery to Purewa. A form of entry for Māori Sunday Services, dated in first column 184- columns headed in Māori showing the place, attendance, minister, teacher etc. 140 x 228mm, bound in original green watered cloth. VG.
2. Page of Sunday school reward tickets, printed on card and uncut; A single sheet of 32 reward tickets each with a different Biblical quotation and number indicating the amount of the “reward”.
Probably “an early printing by one of the Mission Presses”. No imprint but newspaper advertisements for Sunday School reward tickets appear around 1863-1905. The Mission presses were operating earlier - up to the 1860s.

Provenance: Estate of Peter Stratford