This Wunderlich Trade Price List was published in September 1908 in conjunction with the Abridged General Catalogue of that year. It was mainly for the use of architects and clients and provided pricing across three areas ceiling and wall linings in stock sizes, ceiling and wall sizes to 'design' and centre flowers, ventilators and glazing bars, exterior work and sundries.

While 1888 is best remembered as Australia's Centenary it was also an important date for the new company formed by Ernest and Alfred Wunderlich as this was the year they patented their new zinc ceiling process. By the end of the century demand for their lightweight ceilings and roofs had grown to the point where they were used in preference to plaster in practically every major museum, church, hospital, town hall, school, railway station across Australia.

By 1895 Wunderlich had completed the installation of new machinery at its Redfern Plant, in Sydney, and their being able to increase output is probably one of the main reasons they began printing catalogues. These catalogues were initially targeted at regional areas and served as both a resume of the work they had performed and a list of styles and methods of installation provided by the company. They also served another purpose which was to try to expand Wunderlich's business into more remote areas as Â? the success of our work in every Colony of the Australasian Group, has naturally stimulated the parasitic, not to say piratic, habit in the incompetent mimic and the cheap copyist.

Geoff Barker, Assistant Curator, April 2010

References
Wunderlich Catalogue 1895
Wunderlich Catalogue 1899

Catalogue page, page 1 and front cover of 'The Wunderlich Manufactures Price List issued in conjunction with Abridged General Catalogue Edition 1908', Wunderlich Limited, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, September 1908

Page 1 and front cover of 'The Wunderlich Manufactures Price List issued in conjunction with Abridged General Catalogue Edition 1908' inserted within 'The Wunderlich Manufactures Abridged General Catalogue Edition 1908'.

Made: Wunderlich Limited; Redfern, New South Wales; 1908

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