Anyone for tea?

7/5/2009

A great deal of energy is now being expended in sorting through the school’s vast archival store with a long-term view to the construction of a purpose-built museum.

This is likely to be housed in the Shand Building.

Photographs will be catalogued and will be available for downloading from the school and Foundation websites, all manner of archival material will be on display in the museum itself and the real problem for our archivists, Dave Goodman and Barry Stoddart, will be deciding what to include rather than what to leave out.

In recent days Dave has uncovered a rare treasure.

The teapot (side and underneath views seen at right) complete with the Otago Boys’ High School logo was imported, possibly almost a 100 years ago.

Made by Grafton and Sons in England specifically for Arthur Barnett Ltd in Dunedin its history remains largely unknown.

Grafton and Sons is no longer in existence and many of the Arthur Barnett records were destroyed in a fire in 1959.

If anyone else has one of these teapots and knows when it was acquired new– one suggestion it was for the school’s 50th or 60th anniversary – then Dave would be delighted to hear from you. He can be contacted at the school (+64 3 4775527).