Cake Collection (page 4)

Greetings card in the shape of a cake on a plate -- May you take the cake. Date: circa 1890s

Boy with a cake on a cutout New Year card -- For a Good Boy. Date: circa 1890s

Cutout advertisement for Birds Egg Powder. Date: early 20th century

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a cake, with Santa Claus standing in the middle and a removable slice on the right. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

MAKING CHRISTMAS CAKE
Making a Christmas cake, beating eggs to add to the butter and sugarr, with other ingredients, such as flour, dried sultanas, etc. to be added later. Date: 1930s

Supper Table -- how we entertain our friends. Accompanying an article entitled How I keep house on 250 per annum. 1885

Clara Peeters (1594-1657). Painter from the Flemish school
Clara Peeters (1594-1657). Was a still-life painter from the Flemish school. Table with Orange, Olives and Pie. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Hungarian Wedding Cake
These Hungarian peasant women in traditional headscarves are decorating a wedding cake with painted gingerbread swords, hearts and edible babies. Date: 1930s

Cutting Wedding Cake
A caterer in gloves explains how long in took to make their wedding cake as the newlyweds slice into the bottom tier! Date: 1960s

In Dahomey by Jesse A Shipp
In Dahomey by Jesse A. Shipp; music Will Marion Cook et. al. First produced in England at the Shaftesbury Theatre, 16th May 1903

Stationery, Fortnum & Mason Ltd, London
Stationery, Fortnum & Mason Ltd, Piccadilly and Jermyn Street, London, with handwritten details. 1915

Suffragette Voting Cake in Oven. Mrs. Jones (Who represents Every Woman) goes to vote but suddenly remembers she has left a cake in the oven. Typical empty headed woman. Date: circa 1909

A Day at the Fair. The cake stall. Heres the gipsy-womans stall? Date: circa 1926

Wedding Cake Cutting
John Hope Fellows and his new wife, Ellen Milligan, pictured cutting the first slice of the wedding cake at their wedding in Wilmington, Kent Date: 1924

Queen Charlottes Ball, 1934
The ceremony of cutting the cake performed by HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught (formerly Princess Alexandra of Fife), at Queen Charlottes Ball

Savarins Filled with Whipped Cream
Danish Pastry Specialties, Savarins Filled with Whipped Cream Date: 1936

Trade catalogue for Edwardian sweet making utensils 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of sweet making utensils. 1911

Chocolate Cake 1932
Chocolate cake as it should be - thanks to McDougalls self-raising flour. Date: 1932

Royal wedding 1893 - the wedding cake
The giant wedding cake in the breakfast room at Buckingham Palace.The cake was made by Queen Victorias baker at Windsor Castle for the marriage of George Duke of York(later King George V)(1865-1936)

Two little girls with a birthday cake
Two little girls smile at each other across a birthday cake with six lighted candles

The Congress dissolved before the Cake was cut up

Dumb Cake Custom
BAKING THE DUMB-CAKE At Hallowe en, St Johns Eve or other feasts, young women bake a cake in expectation of seeing their beloved : it must be done in total silence

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a cake, with Santa Claus standing in the middle and a removable slice on the right. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with kitten and party food. 1950s

For His King and the Girl He Loved by Fred Maxwell
Promotional postcard of a poster for For His King and the Girl He Loved by Fred Maxwell. A wedding between hero and heroine was a common melodrama ending

Two children and dog enjoying a Christmas tea party
Unusual Friends - two children and a boxer dog enjoying a Christmas tea party. 1950s

Children and elderly lady at a street party
Children and an elderly lady at a street party, with a table full of food. Date: circa 1970s

Keepers of Longships Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall
Three keepers of Longships Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall, in the kitchen area, preparing for their Christmas dinner. Date: circa 1970s

The Christian King by Wilson Barrett (18 February 1846 22 September 1904). First produced at the Princes Theatre in Bristol on 6th November 1902

Saigon - Vietnam - Itinerant street seller of Tea and Cakes/confectionery. Date: circa 1910s

G Collins - Confectioner - Refreshment Room & Cyclists Rest. Date: circa 1909

Arab pastry stalls in Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1908

Temptation by Berthold Genzmer - a young lad with a basket full of porcelain ornaments is tempted to pilfer a slice of sweet pie/cake from his Bakers apprentice friend (balanced carefully on his head)

Suffragette Newspaper Votes for Women
A birthday cake celebrating six years of Votes for Women first issued October 1907. Date: 1913 Oct

Picnic Cakes with sports decorations -- lawn tennis, coaching, cricket, boating, football, polo. circa 1890

London Trade Card - Bun House at Chelsea
London Trade Card - a perspective view of David Loudons Bun House (shop) at Chelsea, by Royal Appointment. They sold Chelsea buns and hot cross buns. circa 1750

Currant Happy Families - box front and card back - Spare the Currants, Spoil the Cake. circa 1940s

Table display -- fruit basket
Table display -- wickerwork style fruit basket made out of pound cake or almond paste, with grapes, apples and pears. 19th century

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon cheered at McVitie and Price
Front cover of The Sphere featuring a photograph of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, being cheered by employees during a visit to the works of Messrs

Elaborate cake display with fruit and flowers -- a centrepiece of croquant or nougat, under Viennese cake with candles. late 19th century

Mottos - Cat in Cake Interval - B/W An Interval. Cat in Cake Young Folk Mottoes 6. Part of Box 134 Boswell Collection - Mottos. Date: circa 1895

Three cats with moveable heads on a Christmas card
Three cats with moveable heads sitting at a tea table on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

King William Street, London - Statue of King William IV
King William Street, London in the 1890s. The statue of King William IV was moved to Greenwich in 1936 to fill the gap left by the demolition of St Marys Church just by the main gate to Greenwich

Sterling silver goods, Plate 206, showing salt cellars, muffineers and cutlery. Date: circa 1880s

Happy Families - Mr Dough. circa 1940s

Happy Families - Miss Dough. circa 1940s

Gibbs Happy Families - Miss Bun the Bakers daughter. 20th century

Ara Pacis Augustae. Aeneas sacrificing to the Penates. Relie
Roman Art. Italy. Ara Pacis Augustae. Aeneas sacrificing to the Penates. Two young attendants in short tunics, with laurel wreaths

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