Spelling Collection

Language - Esperanto at a glance - card produced by the British Esperanto Association. L L Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto (the Unua Libro), on July 26th, 1887. Date: 1923

Noah Webster, the schoolmaster of the Republic. Date c1886 April 18

The Latest Spelling Test by William Heath Robinson
A desperate effort to instil good luck into a five-franc plaque before returning to the Casino. Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944)

Comic postcard, Couple at seaside - letter from wife Date: 20th century

Wallis & Steevens Road Roller OU5979
Wallis & Steevens Road Roller, regn. OU5979, number 8065 at Southampton. Built in 1930 by Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke. (Note : the spelling of Steevens is correct) Date: 24 June 1972

Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine HO5601
Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine, regn. HO5601, 7294, The Sheaf of Arrows at Buckfastleigh. Built in 1912 by Wallis & Steevens at Basingstoke, powered by a 6 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

WW2 Greetings Card, R. A. F. Spitfires
A WW2 greetings card, Brave and gallant little Spitfires protect us day by day; This one to you comes winging, the best of wishes bringing, may good luck come your way

Advert for Hamley Bros fortune-telling game 1905
Edwardian adults sitting around a table playing a game of Vishnu, fortune-telling game, where it will spell the answers to any questions you wish to know. Date: 1905

Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine Fair Rosamund
Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine, regn. BL 4707, number: 7370, Fair Rosamund - Old Bill ). Built by Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke in 1914, powered by a 6 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

Girl and boy on a cutout New Year card with alphabet bricks. Date: circa 1890s

Childs slate and toy gun on a Christmas card. early 20th century

LOLLIPOP CAT
A cat lollipop man, holding up a Stop sign for a little girl cat, on her way to school with her spelling bag over her arm! Date: early 1930s

Animals at a French Zoo - heucorya (?) - animal with slender back-curving horns. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Slide 8

Pier, Margate - looking out through Ships Masts over water to town. Part of Box 145 Boswell Collection - East Coast. Margate was recorded as Meregate in 1264 and as Margate in 1299

Pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap
Eight pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Donkeys in a field on a Christmas card
Donkeys in a field at sunrise on a Christmas card, the shadows from their legs spelling out the words: A Merry Xmas. Date: circa 1890s

Marco Barbarigo
MARCO BARBARIGO (ruled 1485 - 1486) Doge of Venice (The spelling on the engraving is incorrect) Date: circa 1480

Meteorite India 1857
Quenngouch, India : (spelling uncertain) spectacular meteorite explodes over the town in fine weather. Date: 26-27 December 1857

People in historical costume on a New Year card, standing and sitting on ice and spelling out the words NEW YEAR. Date: circa 1890s

Kitten with letter cards on a Christmas card
Kitten with letter cards spelling out Merry Xmas on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Book cover, Learning to Spell, by Irene Martyn. Showing a girl at a desk in front of a blackboard. Date: circa 1940s

God Save the Queen
Arrangement of people spelling out God Save the Queen. Date: victorian era

Subathers Form a Word
A group of innovative sunbathers, form the word l Italia, presumably on a beach in Italy! Date: early 1930s

Chinese woman carrying her wares to market in two bags tied to the end of a yolk across her shoulders. Note the wonderful spelling mistake: " Happy New Year and Maxs" !! Date: 1910s

Teacher gets funny response from young boy
A Teacher gets funny response to a question asked to a forthright young flame-haired chap. " Yes, Bobby, C stands for Cat; now what does D stand for

Arabic treatise on astronomy (Al-Andalus). Manuscript. Hispano-Moresque art. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

Alphabet

London Spelling Book
Title page of a spelling book, showing a girl and boy reading a book while their dog watches with interest. Date: 1851

Puppies Going to School
A cat teacher rings the school bell and two puppies turn up with their spelling books in their satchels. Date: early 1930s

Addled Ads - Living in a HORSE
Addled Ads - WANTED: " AT ONCE. Man wanted to look after horse, to live in." 1905

Elizabethan style Christmas card by Ethel Parkinson
A Christmas card by Ethel Parkinson, showing a young couple dressed in Elizabethan style costume in a snowy landscape. The greeting reads

Whitfields Mount
A protuberance on the Heath where methodist preacher George Whitefield (correct spelling) addressed the crowds. It survives, but is less protuberant today

India Kumbakonam
The Gopura at Combaconum (former spelling) a place of pilgrimage to which devout Brahmins come back annually

Tartar Gentleman
Tartar from Schoumachi (thats the French spelling)

Russia - Taigus
Warrior of the Taigus people (spelling ?) armed with pike and bow

Building Bricks 1925
A child uses alphabet building blocks to build a tower spelling the name of a brand of cigarettes

Abdulla Cigarettes
ABDULLA CIGARETTES A child uses alphabet building blocks to build a tower spelling the name of a brand of cigarettes

King of the Devils
Joosje Goezar (the spelling is not reliable !), lord of the Underworld, honoured by Japanese worshippers

Driving Licence
Early driving licences (the spelling here is incorrect !) were issued by the County for a period of a year

Advert / Abdulla Cigs 1925
ABDULLA CIGARETTES A child uses alphabet building blocks to build a tower spelling the name of a brand of cigarettes

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