I keep finding these vintage knitting needle boxes in "op shops" around the country:
The Anglican and Hospice op shops in particular tend to have good knitting stockpiles, but never count out The Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, or the Methodists either!
The first one of these needle boxes I found in Te Puke (Bay of Plenty), the second one in Tauranga (also Bay of Plenty) and the third in Te Kuiti (King Country). My current quest on these is to see how many different colors I can find.
What's also interesting to me is that most vintage knitting items found here tend to be from the Mother Country, i.e., England. In this case, these were manufactured by a company named Continental Plastics Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, but all three also have the same black stickers that say "New Zealand Made." The front of the box has a ruler in inches, which dates them to before 1969, when NZ commenced an eight year conversion from the imperial to metric system.
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