CARDS PUBLISHED by A. MATHER & Co., HOBART

[Ross Ewington]

Another interesting publisher of view cards before WWI was A. Mather & Co. of Liverpool Street Hobart.

This card would be from c.1905 (divided back but with "message space" still provided on the view side)
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Mather published quite a number of attractive cards, many of which a now quite scarce to rare. Do any members
have cards which may be from the same series as this one?

[Hobbit123]

I have a fair number of Mather cards in my PPC collection. I have pasted below a listing that summarises them. They are sorted alphabetically on the title. There are evidently a number of series involved.

Bellerive
Bellerive from Hobart
Bellerive from Rosny
Bellerive, suburb of Hobart
Browns River Beach
Browns River, near Hobart
Central Hobart
Central Hobart and Mt Wellington from Queen's Domain
Central Hobart and Mt Wellington from Queen's Domain
Clematis Hut, Mt Wellington, Hobart
Cornelian Bay, Hobart
Elizabeth Street (looking North), Hobart
Fern Retreat Hut, Mt Wellington
Fern Tree Bower, Hobart
Fern Tree Bower in Summer
Fern Tree Retreat
Fisherman's Dock & Custom House. Hobart
Fisherman's Dock & Custom House. Hobart
Franklin Square, Hobart
Government House, Hobart
Hobart from Bellerive
Hobart from Bellerive
Hobart from Domain looking West
Hobart, looking East
Hobart looking East from Huon Road
Hop Picking at New Norfolk
Hop Picking at New Norfolk
Huon Road, Nr Hobart
Huon Road, Nr Hobart
Huon Road, Nr Hobart
Kingston, near Hobart
Lindisfarne, a suburb of Hobart
Lindisfarne, near Hobart
Liverpool St looking West, Hobart
Macquarie Street, Hobart
Mountain Lake
Mount Wellington from NewTown
Mount Wellington 4166 feet high from Wharves
Mount Wellington from Wharves
Mt Wellington from the Domain
New Norfolk
New Norfolk
New Wharf, Hobart
Part of Hobart Wharves
Part of Wharves, Hobart
Port Arthur
Port Esperance
Portion of Hobart Wharf
Post Office Hobart
Rocks, New Norfolk
St David's Cathedral
St Johns, New Town
St John's Church, New Town
St John's Church, New Town
Sandy Bay Road (1905)
Sandy Bay Road, Hobart
Sandy Bay, showing Mount Nelson from St George's Hill
Shot Tower, Brown's River Road
Shot Tower, Near Hobart
Supreme Court, Post Office & Public Buildings, Hobart
The Falls Hut, Hobart
The Huon Bridge
The Huon Road
The Huon Road
View from Esplanade, New Norfolk
View of the Derwent, near New Norfolk
Waterfall, Fern Tree Bower, Hobart
Waterworks Valley, Hobart

Where a title is duplicated I have two different cards. I have not included deatils of mint/used or any reference numbers as the paste from Excel did not preserve tabulation. If anyone would like particular scans I will do my best to oblige, but it may take a while!

[cobba]

G'day Ross,
I have some of the Mather cards the same style as the Shot Tower card.

Cheers Kerry

[Ross Ewington]

This A. Mather & Co. card is particularly interesting in my opinion.

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A photograph of Hobart with the Domain and railway yards in the foreground has been 'processed' to give
the appearance of a painting. The postcard back suggests that this card is of American manufacture.

I note that Patrick has recorded this view above ...is this the same card as listed?

Does anyone have other Mather cards of this type (i.e. painting style images) with the same back?

[Des_Beechey]

I think that the painted aspect of the card Ross shows is due to the hand colouring applied to the b&w printed card. Here is the example I have - it looks very much the same as Ross' card (except his isn't individualised by having a corner missing).

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This card if from the first series of Mather cards, which were probably printed by Osboldstone & Co. in Melbourne. The back layout is the same as Osboldstone used on some of the Robert Jolley cards.

Des Beechey

[Ross Ewington]

Thanks Des .... and there I was thinking that the 'painting' effect was done on purpose when it was just some second-rate colouring!

Yes, it would have been most unusual if the card had been of American manufacture but it is an early card and Osboldstone may have 'lifted' the design on the back from an American card or similar.

[Ross Ewington]

This card with an undivided 'Osboldstone back' has a framed coloured view ....ON THE DERWENT RIVER NEAR NEW NORFOLK" and was used from Zeehan in late 1905.

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Does anyone have any similar cards ..... from an early series perhaps?