2 Apr 2024

300 year old parchment, search for it's original home launched

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 2 April 2024

A 300-year-old parchment was found down the back of a couch in the 1940s. It then sat folded up in Eketāhuna for years, until recently.

Passed down from her father, Cheryl Banks opened up the document, and now wants to return it to where it came from.

But how do you find the home of such an old document?

Peter Whitehead, the National Library's collection care leader has some ideas, he talks to Jesse.

Books in a bookshelf.

Books in a bookshelf. Photo: Unsplash / Jessica Ruscello