Digging Kauri Tree Gum For Varnish In New Zealand c90 Y/O Ad Trade Card

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Digging Kauri Tree Gum For Varnish In New Zealand c90 Y/O Ad Trade Card
NOTE:
THESE ARE NOT POSTCARDS
THEY ARE TRADE/ADVERTISING CARDS.
THEY ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN A STANDARD POSTCARD
AND
THERE IS ADVERTISING TEXT ON THE BACK!
THE CARD DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
ORIGINAL c90+ YEARS OLD  TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD
DIGGING KAURI TREE GUM FOR VARNISH IN NEW ZEALAND
Kauri gum is a fossilised resin detracted from kauri trees (Agathis australis), which is made into crafts
such as jewellery. Kauri forests once covered much of the North Island of New Zealand, before M
and European settlers caused deforestation, causing several areas to revert to sand dunes, scrubs, and
swamps. Even afterward, ancient kauri fields continued to provide a source for the gum and the
remaining forests.
The Mhad many uses for the gum, which they called kapia. Fresh gum was used as a type of
chewing gum (older gum was softened by soaking and mixing with juice of the puha thistle). Highly
flammable, the gum was also used as a fire-starter, or bound in flax to act as a torch. Burnt and mixed
with animal fat, it made a dark pigment for moko tattooing. Kauri gum was also crafted into jewellery,
keepsakes, and small decorative items. Like amber, kauri gum sometimes includes insects and plant
material.
Kauri gum was used commercially in varnish, and can be considered a type of copal (the name given
resin used in such a way). Kauri gum was found to be particularly good for this, and from the mid-1840s
was exported to London and America. Tentative exports had begun a few years earlier, however, for
use in marine glue and as fire-kindlers; gum had even made up part of an export cargo to Australia in
1814
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NOTE:
THE REVERSE SIDE HAS TEXT ABOUT THE IMAGE ON THE FRONT SIDE
THE CARD DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATELY
2 5/8 '' x 1 3/8 ''  or  6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm.
NOTE:
THE IMAGES ABOVE IS LARGER THAN THE CARD
TO SHOW THE DETAIL.
THIS CARD IS NOT A MODERN REPRODUCTION
IT IS c90 YEARS OLD
THE FRONT AND BACK MAY HAVE:
PAPER LOSS - SMUDGING - ROUNDED CORNERS
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