Shop by Post.

Quarto stapled catalogue, 116pp, illustrated, original wrappers, a very good copy. Modern facsimile of a Melbourne mail order catalog (sic) from the early C20, offering, and illustrating, all kinds of household goods and personal items, such as handbags, purses, kit bags, suit and lunch cases, school bags, cutlery, kitchen utensils, toast racks, jars, dishes, teapots, matchbox holders, cigarette cases, perfume bottles, photo frames, cruets, watches, clocks, rings, brooches, pendants, manicure sets, hair brushes, combs, mirrors, toothbrushes, hair slides & ornaments, wavers & curlers, beauty aids, toiletries, face powders, perfumes, soaps, shaving soaps & creams, razors (safety & cut-throat), strops, shaving brushes, eau de cologne decanters, hair dressings, smoking pipes, penknives, scissors, hair clippers, mouth organs, studs, cuff links, thermos flasks, stationery, pens, pencils & pencil cases, plasticine, paints, slates, inkstands, inkwells, playing cards, games, spectacles & sunglasses, dolls, teddy bears, rattles, prams, baby requirements, Meccano, model trains & cars, wallabies (billy carts), trikes, toys, Daisy air rifles, cricket bats, footballs and other sporting goods. A wonderful glimpse into past forms of (mostly!) familiar things. In the early C20 Edments was a big store situated in Melbourne's most prominent central shopping street, Bourke Street. …