[Big game animal engraved glass sets].

Title: 
[Big game animal engraved glass sets].

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Author/Artist: 
Rowland Ward (East Africa) Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya.
Publisher: 
Nairobi, Africa : Rowland Ward (East Africa) Ltd., [n.d., 1960-1970] (Nairobi : East African Printers Kenya, Ltd.)
Description: 
11 p. : ill. ; 21cm.
Format of Material: 
Trade Catalogs
Bib ID: 
123019
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Location: 
Secured Stacks - Trade Catalogs
Call Number: 
Ward, Rowland, (East Africa), Ltd.
Notes: 
Catalog is not dated, however information discovered indicates the engraved glassware sets advertised within were being sold in 1968-1970.
Accompanied by "Rowland Ward's game skin handbags and gift items made from elephant ear skin and zebra skin" (folded brochure).
"We have produced, to our own design and for exclusive sale by ourselves, an outstanding series of glasses engraved with Big Game Animals...These glasses can be ordered either singly or in sets. They are available for sale in Nairobi, but can also be supplied by the manufacturers in Bavaria..."--P. 2.
Glassware includes engraved glass sets of tumblers, shots, pitchers, bowls, ash trays, covered boxes and decanters engraved with big game animals. Each type of glass depicts separately six species of big game animals, namely: lion, elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, giraffe and sable antelope.