A quilt started during the reign of King George III and thought to be the oldest in New Zealand, has made its way to the Bay.
The hand-sewn patchwork quilt was started in the late 1700s or early 1800s by Tauranga man David Wall's great great great grandmother Sarah Bloor, or even her mother.
Mr Wall said the quilt arrived in New Zealand in the 1960s when his mother, Dorothy Wall, immigrated here.
Over the past 50 years it has been housed in an oak chest in his brother John's Palmerston North home. When John sold his house, Mr Wall got the quilt.
"We knew there was a quilt, and that it was fairly old. It was my great great great grandmother who would have kicked it off."