![]() ![]() ![]() Notably in 1969 Graeme was invited to join a delegation that included Senior Merchants from Woolworths to travel to China, under escort, and view dinnerware that was available for purchase. During these years Graeme built a successful agency business and also began to import his own product, mainly ceramic tableware and accessories, from Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Some of these brands included Texta Markers, Bohemia Crystal and Stanley Rogers silverware. With his infectious personality Graeme managed to convince several venerable brands that he was the right person to represent their products in the Western Australian market. In 1968 Graeme gathered his savings and opened his first housewares and stationary company called Tritex P/L. This lasted a few years until bigger plans were hatched. ![]() He famously made the papers when he “knocked the tip” of his pencil when driving under the Mt Lawley subway.Īfter Jackson’s Graeme set up a commercial chicken farm with his new bride Monika. When old enough to enter the workforce Graeme had only a few jobs before he quickly settled into a role of storeman and then sales at Jackson’s Drawing Supplies. He was entrusted with a VW “Combi” that had a large pencil on the roof and quickly became known around town. He left school early to help a struggling family make ends meet. Graeme Lance, the founder of Stoneage Ceramics was born in Perth Western Australia. ![]()
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