"Old booklets, leaflets and papers found in the late Lt Col S R Timson's dispatch box in 1935"

Various items concerning Sheep Dipping Powder, including company leaflets, directions for use, press reports and other printed matter, and two notebooks belonging to S R Timson.

The file comprises:

c1890. Notebook with black cover (200 x 165mm, 96 numbered pages), containing notes on various places in Australia and New Zealand, and brief notes on "North America" and "New York". The notes refer to agents and sales matters. On the first (un-numbered) page are notes in pencil, made at a later date in another hand, concerning the dating of notebook based on references within it.

c1890. Notebook with white cover (160 x 105mm) containing notes referring to Australia, with three items loosely inserted:
newspaper cutting (a letter To the Editor) concerning "A Red-Rust Remedy" (1890);
newspaper cutting (Wellington), advertisement for Quibell's Liquid Sheep Dip;
handwritten note on temperatures.

Cooper literature:
"Cooper's Sheep Dipping Powder. Hints for Mixing and Using." [without date, single sheet x 5 copies]
"Cooper's Dipping Powder" [without date - refers to mixing with "100 Spanish Gallons of Water"]
single sheet advertisement for "Cooper's Sheep Dipping Powder" [without date - "In Constant Use for Forty Years"]
"Cooper's Sheep Dipping Powder. Rules for Sheep-Dipping." [without date, a single sheet folded - "To Be Fixed Up Near The Dipping Bath"]
advertisement sheet for Cooper's Dipping Powder, printing a number of brief testimonials (dated 1886-1888) from "Many Thousands of Australasian Squatters"
"Sheep Dipping and How to Always Ensure Its Success" [without date, 1 sheet folded]
folding leaflet for "Cooper's Sheep Dipping Powder" [without date ("In Use Forty Years"), 4 copies printed in green (2), orange and brown]
"Instructions for South American Travellers" [without date - single sheet folded x 3 copies]

Sydney, 1890. "Constitution of the National Association of Sheepbreeders of Australia".

Reprinted paper. Robert Wallace, "Scab in Sheep / Suggestions for its Eradication," reprinted from Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (1900). See passage marked on p. 15: "It is estimated that the annual loss from scab in Cape Colony is one million pounds sterling. In 1893 Messrs Wm Cooper & Nephews made an offer to the Colonial Government to eradicate the disease within three years for a maximum of £735,000, or per annum less than a quarter of the annual loss."

Concerning dispute between William Cooper and Nephews and Messrs Quibell Brothers:
Pages 261-268 from The British and South African Export Gazette [c1895] containing an article on "the controversy which has been raging" (p.262) between William Cooper and Nephews and Messrs Quibell Brothers, "both of whose names will be familiar to Cape sheep breeders";
Berkhamsted, August, 1894: "Falsehoods in Advertising / Messrs Quibell's Admissions & Evasions" [single sheet];
"Quibell Brothers' Answers to Cooper & Nephews Accusations" [large sheet folded];
"Reply to No. 13" - further response from Quibell [single sheet].

Reprinted from The Field (23 October, 1886), p. 614: a reply from William Cooper and Nephews to an earlier report ("Sheep Poisoned by Arsenical Dip").

Newspaper cutting from The Cape Argus (24 June, 1886): lengthy letter to the Editor from William Cooper and Nephews, concerning arsenical sheep dip.

4 January, 1895. "'Spoofing' the South African Consumer" - cutting from The Critic, p. 185.

Promotional circular (with detached section) for The Australian Pastoralists' Review.

"Murton's Sheep-Dipping Preparations" - single advertising sheet (c1890).

Booklet promoting McDougall's Non-Poisonous Sheep Dip (in English) and a similar booklet in Afrikaans. Also, single sheet in Afrikaans: "Waarschuwing. Gevaarlijke Schapendips".

Large McDougall's Liquid Sheep Dip wrapper (brown paper).

13 April, 1917. Draft letter from R A Cooper to Mr Palmer, East London, concerning South African business [7 sheets]. With related manuscript memorandum (16 April) attached, from S R Timson to Charles Timson [1 sheet].

Printed Menu for Luncheon to the South African Farmers, given by Sir Richard A Cooper (Royal Agricultural Society's Show, Derby), 5 July, 1933.

1886-1933

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