item details
NameSales registers
ProductionWilliam Ockleford Oldman; creating agency; 1902-1916
Classificationsales records
Materialspaper, ink, cardboard
Materials SummaryBound volumes in chronological order or sales made
Techniqueshandwriting
Registration NumberCA000228
Overview
William Ockleford Oldman was a trader and collector of ethnographic objects from countries around the world including the Pacific.
These sales registers record his trade in ethnographical objects detailing who the objects were purchased from, price paid and details of sales made and to whom.
Te Papa would like to acknowledge the assistance received from The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to digitise this collection, the Smithsonian’s Transcriptions Centre for transcription services and to all the volunteers who assisted with transcriptions of the individual pages.