Vulcanite novelty card calendar.
Gold impressed text, 8 x 4.8cm.
A card calendar for 1897 made of pink vulcanite[?], advertising The T. Boot Company. Text includes “Central depot 386 George Street [Sydney]. Phit-Eesi Shoes. Lowest prices.” Verso is a “memo tablet” which can be used as a shopping list and wiped clean with a damp fabric. It is annotated in pencil with somebody’s list: “flags, paper, bonbons, silk plush, lanterns.”
The T. Boot company seems to have established itself at 386 George St, Sydney, in December of 1895. The premises was lauded as “an almost palatial series of saloons.” This advertising calendar was possibly given away at Christmas time as a promotion. Ref: SMH, 17.12.1895. Provenance: The Graham Collection.
