Coupon Collection

Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931
Underwood creates the new portable typewriter. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key

Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931
Your personal letters... write them on the Underwood portable. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key

Advert for Terrys exerciser for men 1939
Christmas gift ideas from Herbert Terry exercisers, including steelstrand expander, golfer pocket wrist exerciser, spring grip dumbbells

Advert for Dolcis shoes, shopping with five coupons 1941
With five wartime coupons you could buy one pair of shoes from Dolcis. Casual shoes with contrasting coloures with a crepe sole and side lace. Casual shoes with 3 eyelette tie at front in suede

Advert, Women's dresses, Fresh as a Daisy Frock Co Ltd - fashioned for Spring Date: 1955

New fabric that stretches three ways Vita-Flex was made of an exclusive process in which pure rubber was interwoven with fine cotton backing. Date: 1939

Rational Gadgets For Your Coupons by William Heath Robinson
Customers are put on scales to determine how much butter they are entitled to, the heavier the person is, the more butter they are given. Date: 1940

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coupon shortage and making do
The long Caption gives the little girls excuse for having patches. The Home Front War Effort was helped along by cryptic slogans such as Make do and Mend and Making do

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Wish I could buy you somefink
The Caption has the little boy saying that he has no money AND cannot buy the girl anything so he wishes her a NO COUPON HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1944

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Sun is Out
The verse on the card contains the lines Coupon trouble grows - shes naught to dry - but pegs. Clothes rationing began in June 1941 and did not end until 1949

Inside of ration book for motor spirit, September 1939
Coupons for petrol found inside a ration book issued by Surrey County Council, 5 September 1939. Petrol rations were based on the horsepower of a vehicle

Two Motor Fuel Ration coupons in a booklet
Two Motor Fuel Ration coupons for a motor cycle, valid for the month of October 1947, in a booklet of coupons issued by the Minister of Fuel and Power. (2 of 3) Date: 1947

Booklet cover, Motor Fuel Ration Book for a motor cycle, September 1947 to February 1948, date stamped Woolwich SE18, 22 August 1947. (1 of 3) Date: 1947

Clothing Coupons
A clothing coupon book cover

Share certificate and coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines
Share certificate and dividend coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines, in the Belgian Congo. Date: 1944

Ottoman Empire Bearer Bond. Date: 1863

British Food Rationing, First World War, 1918
Diagram showing the weekly butchers meat ration allowed for an adult (with children receiving half the amount). Rationing was introduced at the end of World War One when ships carrying food

WW2 Christmas card, clothes rationing
WW2 Christmas card, comment on clothes rationing. Date: circa 1942

Advert for Drages bedroom furniture 1937
Drages fine funiture. Payable in a small deposit and then pay 50 months installments. Available department stores in Oxford Street, London, Manchester and Birmingham. Date: 1937

Wurlitzer advertisement, 1925
Girl of 13 makes $75 a week! Alice Higgie of Chicago made this amount weekly in vaudeville in the summer of 1924, thanks to her easy to play Wurlitzer saxophone. Send for your free book now!

Advert for Veco reducing cup for weight loss 1926
New 3 minute treatment takes off fat- just where you want to loss it! Amazing new discovery takes off flesh just where you want to loss it. No dieting - no pills - no discomforts

Advert for Harlene hair product 1916
Great Epidemic of hair trobles, if you suffer from scalp irritation, complete or partial baldness, straggling or weak hair, thin or falling hair, splitting hairs, over-greasiness of the scalp

Obtaining Encyclopaedia Britannica books
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925

WW2 - Cost of a Selfridges 3-piece suit in rationing coupons
WW2 - Cost of a Selfridges 3-piece suit - Cost 8 guineas and 26 Clothing rationing coupons - 17th June, 1941. In 1942, each person had 60 coupons p.a. which reduced down to 24 coupons by 1945

Paris Worlds Fair of 1900 - Circus entertainers
Circus entertainers and performers and their Caravan. Illustration by Caputo on a postcard published by Courmont Freres as part of a book of discount coupons for attractions at the Paris Worlds Fair

Coupon Wedding - Cloth in short supply leads to a rather daring wedding gown! Date: 1943

Advert for Wolsey womens clothing 1943
Coupon wizard by Wolsey. 1943

Advert for Wolsey womens clothing 1942
Coupon wizard by Wolsey. Date: 1942

The actor Nakamura Nakazo holding a rice coupon. Print shows the actor Nakamura Nakazo, full-length, standing on the shore, facing slightly left, holding a rice coupon. Date between 1781 and 1785

Hand knitteds conserve coupons
Instructions on how to make a ribbed sweater with peep bo front, and a green jerkin with full pink sleeves and detachable dicky-collar

Shop Display 1940S
A window display at Lovegrove & Sons family grocers, inviting people to Come and Spend Your Points Here, i.e. to use up their rationing coupon points during wartime

Coupon Allocation 1940S
Household management : A housewife and her adult daughter have a cup of tea and a cigarette together as they work out their coupon allocation around the table

Clothing Ration Coupons
An example of clothing coupon book

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