Ad from Typo of 50th Anniversary of Company (1890)

By 1890, Lyon & Blair could celebrate fifty years of successful manufacturing and commerce; such longevity was unprecedented in the volatile colonial economy. Robert Coupland Harding included the firm's anniversary keepsake in his landmark journal Typo, A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review devoted to the Advancement of the Typographic Art. The compositor or typesetter of this keepsake, E. E. Wright, went on to partnership with Harding when the latter moved to Wellington from Napier.