c1901

Holy Bible

2017.002.058

Bible

Leather bound book, 983 pages, 13.5 x 7.5cm

[Holy Bible, leather bound book, dark green colour with black and white pictures of women that are captioned with a particular virtue.]

[Inside the first couple of pages that are unnumbered it has]

The Souvenir Bible

The Holy Bible
containing the
Old and New Testaments
with portraits of Queen Victoria
and representations of
The Seven Virtues, after designs by
Sir Joshua Reynolds

[There is a coat of arms with two crowns]

Oxford
printed at the University Press
1901

[There is a picture of the Queen]
QUEEN VICTORIA
AT THE TIME OF HER ACCESSION
1837

[There is another picture of the Queen]
QUEEN VICTORIA
AT THE END OF HER REIGN
1901

[There are three pressed four leaf clovers inside at the front]

[On blank pages both front and back it has in handwritten ink]

Ian Donald Hazlett
Mary Butts
23nd May 1942
St Matthews Church
Cathedral Auckland
Bishop Canon Coa[illegible]s

Bryan Raymond
Born 30th June 1943
St Helens Hospital
Wellington N.Z.
8lb 101/2 oz

Bryan Raymond Hazlett
Rosalie Pye Smith
Mathew Bryan Hazlett
Born 26 January 1965
8lb 11oz

Gladys Dagmar Hazlett
March 2 1895

Ernest Charles Hazlett
January 14 1897

Dalreath Charles Hazlett
August 10 1916

Ian Donald Hazlett
August 2 1920

Raymond Edwin Hazlett
January 11th 1923

[The bible was left in a jumble sale organized by the Waimea Womens Institute by an unknown person. It was brought to the museum on the 30th March 2014 by one of the jumble sale convenors, Dawn Christie, a resident in Waikanae]