NZ Kauri Gum & Amber Auction: Auckland

nz kauri gum & AMBER
auction
AUCKLAND
WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH / 5pm
VIEWING
Fri 27 Feb 10am 5pm
Mon 2 Mar 10am 5pm
Tues 3 Mar 10am 5pm
Wed 4 Mar 10am 4pm
location
12 Akepiro St, Mt Eden, Auckland 1024

PO Box 68527, Newton, 1145
Ph (09) 630 9178 Fax (09) 630 9173
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LOT 39
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This collection has been in the same family for at least four generations. It was started by James McLeod and an
aunt, sometime in the late 1800s.
James father, Isaac and Uncle John arrived in the sloop Sea Gull with their families in 1860 from Nova Scotia.
They settled in Helensville. Helensville was named after Johns wife Helen.
The brothers started a sawmill business and milled kauri timber from all around the Kaipara Harbour region and
beyond. At one time John designed a flat-bottomed boat so that they could bring kauri over the treacherous
Kaipara Bar. It was only natural that the family should take an interest in collecting a product that played such an
important part in their lives and New Zealands history. The McLeods later turned their hands to farming and still
have a strong presence in the Helensville district at this time.
This sale is made up of the McLeod Collection plus other pieces, they are all to be sold at no reserve.
Kauri Gum
This is the fossilised resin of the Kauri Tree. The Maori found several uses for it. When burnt and powdered, tatooists
dipped their chisel into the pigment creating the blue-black colouring in the lines of the Warriors decorated face.
In the course of time the value in the manufacture of varnish was discovered and in the 1840s it was being collected
from the surface of the ground by Maori, who sold it to traders for 56 per ton. In 1856, 1440 tonne was exported.
Unlike kauri timber a large amount of which was used in New Zealand, almost the whole output of gum sent
overseas between 18501950, was valued at twenty five million pounds. As gum became scarcer with the passing of the years, old diggings
were worked over a second time and sometimes a second layer or even a third would be found beneath the first, indicating that during
unnumbered years a succession of forests had risen and fallen.
The better quality of gum was generally found on the hillsides and moderately shallow ground. There it was usually harder and lighter varying
in colour from white to amber and occasionally transparent. What were considered inferior sorts brown, sugary and what was known as
black jack were generally found in swamp ground.
1
Three MEDIUM KAURI gum

boulders OF NATURAL FORM
Lengths 1924cm. Combined weight
3.4kg. (3)
Four small kauri gum

boulders oF NATURAL FORM
Lengths 16cm. Combined weight 1.6kg. (4)
Five kauri gum pieces

Natural form. Lengths 710cm.
Combined weight 500g. (5)
Twenty-two kauri gum

nuggets, Assorted formS
One large kauri gum boulder

Natural form. Length 32cm.
Weight 1.7kg.
Four MEDIUM kauri gum
boulders
Combined weight 1.1kg. (4)
7 SEVEN kauri gum pieces

8
Five SMALL kauri gum boulders

Two kauri gum boulders

Natural forms. Lengths 2123cm.
10
A large kauri gum ball

Dia. 10.5cm. Weight 600g.
11 Six kauri gum nuggets

Assorted forms. Lengths 59cm.
12
Twenty-two kauri gum

nuggets, Assorted forms
13
Three kauri boulders

Combined weight 3kg. (3)
14 Six small kauri gum boulders

15
FIVE medium kauri

gum boulders
16
A large kauri gum boulder

Natural form. Length 47cm. Weight 4kg.
17
One kauri gum ball

Dia. 8.5cm. Weight 450g.
18
One kauri gum ball

Dia. 9cm. Weight 500g.
19
Twenty-eight kauri gum

20
Three kauri gum pieces

11(6)
9(2)
6(4)
4(22)
DUNBAR SLOANE AUCKLAND
8(5)
19(28)
51(4)
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21 Seven small kauri

gum boulders
Five medium kauri
gum boulders
22
Twelve kauri gum pieces

23

Natural form. Length 32cm. Weight 4kg.
24
25 Eight kauri gum pieces

Combined weight 1.3kg. A/f. (8)
26
Five medium kauri gum boulders

27
Twenty-seven kauri gum

Combined weight 1 kg. (27)

gum boulders
A very large kauri
gum boulder
Length 33cm. Weight 5.7kg.
29
30
Three kauri gum boulders

2.3kg. (3)
31
Two kauri gum balls

Dia. 8cm. Combined weight 1.4kg. (2)
33
33
A polished kauri gum boulder

Carved with flower and leaf decoration
to the top. Length 20cm. Weight 1kg.
34
Three carved kauri gum objects

Two in the form of coat-of-arms and
one in the form of a lock. Lengths
5.510.5cm. Combined weight 350g. (3)
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36
Four small assorted carved

kauri gum objects
A duck, an egg on base (A/f), three eggs
enclosed in a nest and one sundial(?)
(A/f). Lengths 5.59cm. Combined
weight 350g. (4)
with relief carving of two
human faces
37
Three small carved kauri

gum objects
Two in the form of books and one of
a dinghy on base. Lengths 812cm.
Combined weight 400g. A/f. (3)
38
A very large kauri gum

Natural form boulder
Carved at one end into an eel-like
creature with eyes and mouth.
39
An impressive large carved

kauri gum sculpture in the
shape of a lighthouse on
a cliff top
With additional carved pieces of
stairs, etc. Height 36cm.
Length 41cm. Weight 8.4kg. A/f.
76(4)
40
A large carved kauri gum

sculpture in the shape of a
lighthouse and cottage
on a cliff face
With stairs and additional boats. Height
40cm, Length 45cm. Weight 5.1kg. A/f.
41 Six assorted small kauri gum

carved objects
Possibly chess pieces. Heights 69cm.
Combined weight 300g. A/f. (6)
42
Twenty-four small assorted

carved kauri gum objects
Including hearts (one with To Alice
carved to front), shoes, columns and
other pieces. Heights 69cm. Lengths
15cm. Combined weight 200g. A/f. (24)
43
A shaped kauri gum and

sterling silver cigarette
holder
In a custom leather case Hallmarked
Birmingham, 1911, Maker, J & HA.
Length 4.5cm.
44
A kauri gum ball encased in bark

Together with a cut block of kauri wood
with veins of gum. Ball Dia. 7cm. Wood
block length 16.5cm. Plus assorted
pieces of kauri bark. (11)
45
A large PIECE of kauri wood

With thick layer of gum to one side.
Length 32cm.
46 Six assorted cut and

shaped kauri gum pieces
1.2kg. (6)
gum boulders
32 a carved and painted kauri

gum dual-headed bust of
a Maori male and female
Faces detailed with moko and wearing
a flax cloak. Height 20cm. Weight 900g.
52
36
45
48 Sixteen assorted
kauri gum pieces
49
50

Natural form. Length 36cm. Weight
3.15kg.
Three kauri gum boulders
51
Four polished kauri gum eggs

Lengths 6cm. Combined weight 500g. (4)
52
A kauri gum ball

Dia. 8cm. Weight 200g.

54
Four medium kauri

gum boulders
55 Eighteen kauri gum nuggets

Natural form. Combined weight 1kg. (18)
56 Eight dark kauri gum pieces
57
Two kauri gum balls

Dia. 8cm (each).
71 Eight small kauri gum boulders

59
Fifteen kauri gum nuggets

Lengths 58cm. Combined weight 1kg. (15)
72
60

Natural form. Length 40cm. Weight
5.6kg.
Ten small kauri gum boulders

Combined weight 1.5kg.
73


63
Ten kauri gum nuggets

Natural form. Combined weight 700g.
(10)
64
Five dark kauri gum pieces

65
Twelve medium kauri gum

boulders

Three medium kauri

gum boulders
40
DUNBAR SLOANE AUCKLAND
58
67

68
Five small kauri gum boulders

69
Ten kauri gum pieces

70
Fourteen kauri gum pieces

24
74 Seventeen kauri gum PIECES

Assorted forms. Combined weight 1.5kg.
(17)
75
A set of 72 small faceted

kauri gum beads
From a necklace, (some on original string,
some loose). Dia.s ranging from 57.5mm.
Weight 15.5g. A/f. Together with 17 small
gum chips. Weight 55g. (18)
76
A stunning amber necklace,

bracelet and earrings set
Amber necklace made of large oval
beads ranging from diameters 12.5cm,
Length 62cm. Together with a small
oval beaded amber bracelet, Dia.1cm,
Length 20cm. A pair of amber bead drop
earrings, dia. 1cm. Combined weight
67g. (4)
77
Twelve UNPOLISHED kauri gum

pieces of various colours
Ranging from dark brown to
butterscotch. Lengths 612cm.
78
Four medium unpolished

pieces of kauri gum
Lengths 1318cm.
Combined weight 1.7g. (4)
79
Three large unpolished

kauri gum rocks
Lengths 1719cm.
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12 Akepiro St, Mt Eden, Auckland 1024

Three MEDIUM KAURI gum

Four small kauri gum

Five kauri gum pieces

Twenty-two kauri gum

One large kauri gum boulder

7 SEVEN kauri gum pieces

Five SMALL kauri gum boulders

Two kauri gum boulders

A large kauri gum ball

11 Six kauri gum nuggets

Twenty-two kauri gum

Three kauri boulders

14 Six small kauri gum boulders

FIVE medium kauri

A large kauri gum boulder

One kauri gum ball

One kauri gum ball

Twenty-eight kauri gum

Three kauri gum pieces

21 Seven small kauri

Twelve kauri gum pieces

A large kauri gum boulder

25 Eight kauri gum pieces

Five medium kauri gum boulders

Twenty-seven kauri gum

28 Seven small kauri

Three kauri gum boulders

Two kauri gum balls

A polished kauri gum boulder

Three carved kauri gum objects

Four small assorted carved

Three small carved kauri

A very large kauri gum

An impressive large carved

A large carved kauri gum

41 Six assorted small kauri gum

Twenty-four small assorted

A shaped kauri gum and

A kauri gum ball encased in bark

A large PIECE of kauri wood

46 Six assorted cut and

32 a carved and painted kauri

A large kauri gum boulder

Four polished kauri gum eggs

A kauri gum ball

53 Eight kauri gum pieces

Four medium kauri

55 Eighteen kauri gum nuggets

Two kauri gum balls

71 Eight small kauri gum boulders

Fifteen kauri gum nuggets

A large kauri gum boulder

Ten small kauri gum boulders

Twelve kauri gum pieces

61 Six small kauri gum boulders

Ten kauri gum nuggets

Five dark kauri gum pieces

Twelve medium kauri gum

66 Six small kauri gum boulders

Three medium kauri

Twelve kauri gum pieces