Item #117897 The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']. Trade Catalogue.
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']
The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']

The Wunderlich Patent Ceiling and Roofing Co., Ltd. Manufacturers, Sydney, NSW. Catalogue 1903 Edition [comprising six sections, including one from the 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition', and two from the 'Catalogue 1904 Edition']

Sydney, The Company, 1903 and 1904.

Oblong quarto (237 × 306 mm), 160 pages plus some additional leaves bound or tipped in (four-page sections after page 6 and page 116; octavo leaves, printed rectos only, after pages 6 and 16, with another two after page 23; and a small cutting mounted on page 19). Nearly all pages are extensively illustrated within a red printed border, with the company name printed in red at the head of every page. The first section contains a duplicate typescript slip mounted on page 2, pointing out that the 'lines priced in Black Ink are regularly kept in stock [and] The lines priced in Red Ink have to be procured from Sydney'.

Contemporary patterned binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine ('Wunderlich') and on the front cover ('H.J. Cowell'); cloth a little marked, mottled and lightly stained; extremities lightly worn and bumped; the top portion of the entire catalogue is a little water-affected, with the main impact being that the red ink of the header has run a little, and the paper is a little cockled and lightly tidemarked (but beyond the halfway point, the only blemishes are light tidemarks in the top blank margin); one leaf (pages 7/8) has the leading third excised; the first section has some staple or pin holes in the leading margin of all twelve leaves, with trifling loss in a few places; occasional other signs of use and age; overall, a very sound copy of a rare and impressive Edwardian catalogue from a significant Australian manufacturer of these specialised lines of architectural and building hardware.

The catalogue comprises six numbered sections: Steel Ceiling Materials (24 pages); Ceiling Designs (48 pages); Centre-flowers and Ceiling Ventilators (16 pages); Metal Roofing and Exterior Decoration (28 pages, 'Catalogue 1904 Edition'); Zinc Ceiling Materials (28 pages, 'Catalogue 1904 Edition'); and Sundries (16 pages, 'Catalogue 1903/4 Edition'). Provenance: Henry James Cowell (1855-1935), born in Clarendon, SA; he became a timber merchant at Norwood in 1876, and his brother, James William Cowell (1856-1910) joined him in 1880, henceforth trading as Cowell Brothers. Henry James Cowell then retired from the business, and practised as an architect in Adelaide from 1888. His brother 'continued to manage Cowell Brothers at 45 The Parade, Norwood, timber merchants and general ironmongers, steam saw and moulding mills'. The firm expanded into the city and Port Adelaide, and eventually became Cowell Bros & Co. (Cowell family history notes by Reg Butler, online).

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