1914- According to George Barker’s statements made at 1929 Tarrif Board hearing , was the year that Barker & Co. “introduced patty pans to the people of Australia”

1915   “ Australian Gum Leaves “ Poetry by Muriel Beverley Cole,  Book Printed by Shovelton & Storey.

https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C382276?mainTabTemplate=workPublicationDetails&jumptoemb=Z811432

192_ ? Sheet music Cover by Barker& Co. “The Aussie Glide”

AP 783.242 ST726A

Barcode: 30328116087601

& “Tan-gam-ba-lang-a” Sheet music cover.

1930-1940? Not just Patty Pans..

Chocolates and cake Boxes As well as two patents for Carton design for Transporting Smoking Pipes

-the inventive and ingenious designs for cardboard packaging now have come back to the fore in

sustainable and less polluting packaging materials of cardboard, plant and fungi based packaging materials..

1924   E.G.Barker (Edmund George Barker) married Verna Audrey Langdon.

Appeared to have lived at 17 Frogmore Rd Murrumbeena all the rest of their lives, just across the railway line from the Boyd’s “Open Country”-  I remember a wonderful Raku fired pot that we had in our lounge room that came from Merrick Boyd.

Cakoes Factory Site, 476-479 Little Lonsdale St also listed as address for E.G.Barker with shares in a Gold Mine according to “The Australasian” Newspaper 1st June 1935.

1934 Melbourne Centenary Celebrations- Delicate, coloured frieze design for Cakoes Patty Pan Wrapper- A single copy in the collection

1930 -1945   Cakoes Recipe Booklet/Advertising  two via TROVE and one in the State Library Collection

1929-1930. E.G.Barker along representatives from Spicers-Detmold and McFarlane Burns argue case for Tarriffs on imported Patty Pan/Cupcakle Wrappers (separate web page and animation clip for this under construction)

1926 August 2-18 “RESO” Tour of Victoria Textile Mills, Forest Clearing other industries

1927 “RESO” Tour to Central Australia- with Representative of Barker & Co.(web page link coming for this)

1934 Melbourne Centenary Cupcake Design -( see web page to come soon)

1930 -39 Gum Leaf/PATTY/PANS- produced by Barker & Co. (confusing with earlier Gumleaf Paper Co./Shovelton & Storey)

Cardboard box for patty pans. Made by Barker & Co, circa 1930 - 1939. Used in Albert Park, Victoria, Australia. Acquired by Museum Victoria during the South Melbourne Oral History Project Collection in 1990. Cardboard box for patty pans. On the opposite side of the box are recipes for Queen Cakes and Nutties. Text: Gum Leaf/PATTY/PANS/MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

1940’s Barker & Co, “House of Barker” produces three series of Children’s Reader books approved by Government Authorities-presumably bought by the Education Department of the day and distributed to Schools.

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1960-64 ? Reginald (Reg) Sheen becomes managing director of Barkers & Co Printing still operating in Little Londsdale st between Eagle Alley and Park st. Don Carey , Walter Wagner and Brian Classonn  ran the printing side of the business

1964 Death of Joan Audrey Barker, only daughter of George and Verna Barker .

1968  June 3 E.G. Barker dies at Evan Court Private Hospital as per listing in “The Age”  Wednesday June 5 1968.

1969 June Supreme Court Hearing  for E.G.Barker’s Widow to contest “further provision for her proper maintenance and support”.

1970? Reg’s son Peter Sheen becomes managing director of Barker & Co Printers

1978?  Barker & Co Printers sold off Patty Pans and Paper Plates Business to “Deeko” ? and Ausaleo Holdings retained “Cakoes” business name only?

1979 ? Printing Business moved to Blackburn and then Clayton.

[ ?? not sure if related at all but many adverts for a “ Barker & Co. Trading Company” Imports and Exports with Pacific Islands. ]

2006 Don Hauser releases book  “ The Printers of the Streets and Lanes of Melbourne (1837- 1975).

2014  22nd October Death of Ian Thomas Sheen, former manager of   Cakoes Barker & Co Printers and Donor of Decorative Patty Pan Collection to The State Library of Victoria.

This imprint on  one of the early Barker & Co  Artwork Layouts in the State Library’s Collection(possibly from the 1930’s or  1940’s) had me hopeful that this one attribution /stamp for “Artist 511) might have some sort of traceable record and actual name somewhere… but everyone’s best guess has been that it was just an arbitrary stamp that the company used…

1924 Only photo found George Barker

allegedly in the crowd of supporters

for Yambuk Footy Club

https://victoriancollections.net.au

/items/5de705f521ea6719d0d4146e1

1943 E.G. Barker releases his manifesto “How about peace”

which found to be about building business and prosperity

after depression and wars, the inconvenience of Unions,

social security and so on-ideas many miles away from any

concepts of universal basic income..

expressing similar sentiments to MacRobertson and others

of their time and present day.

1950 - 1980    Printed various stationery, Paper Plates, Coffee cups and manufactured mostly plain paper Patty Pans

Brisbane Courier

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