First established in 1870, Kempthorne Prosser & Co was New Zealand’s leading drug and fertiliser manufacturer until they exited the market in 1978. The company operated four large chemical works as well as a number of offices and warehouses across New Zealand.
Printed: c.1885
Print Type: Advertisement / Calling Notice
Card: QV 1d Red-brown (Samuel: AA.2a)
Notes:
Printed: 1890’s
Print Type: Advertisement / Calling Notice
Card: QV 1d Red-brown (Samuel: AA.4b)
Notes:
Printed: c.1895
Print Type: Advertisement / Calling Notice
Card: QV 1d Blue (Samuel: AA.6a)
Notes:
Printed: 1899
Print Type: Advertisement / Dispatch Notice
Card Type: QV 1d Yellow Brown (Samuel AW.3a)
Notes: Very few examples recorded.
(Schumann Collection – Images ©S. Schumann)
Printed: 1901
Print Type: Advertisement / Dispatch Notice
Card Type: QV 1d Carmine – Embossed (Samuel AW.3b)
Notes: Very few examples recorded.
Printed: 1901
Print Type: Advertisement / Dispatch Notice
Card Type: QV 1d Carmine – Embossed (Samuel AW.3b)
Notes: Very few examples recorded – Uprated with QV Lettercard cut-out.
(Schumann Collection – Images ©S. Schumann)
Printed: 1904
Print Type: Advertisement / Dispatch Notice
Card Type: KEVII 1d Carmine – Embossed (Samuel AW.3c)
Notes: Very few examples recorded.
(Schumann Collection – Images ©S. Schumann)
Printed: c.1905
Print Type: Dispatch Notice
Card: KEVII – Non-Stationery
Printed: 1908
Print Type: Advertisement / Calling Notice
Card Type: KEVII ½d Green (Samuel Unrecorded)
Notes: The only recorded example. In his 1988 catalogue R. D. Samuel noted that a printing of ½d cards was undertaken in 1908, though none had been seen. This example is the discovery example and the only one currently recorded.
(Schumann Collection – Images ©S. Schumann)
