Check Collection (page 3)

Hotel Mar y Vent, Banyalbufar, Majorca, Spain
Dining Room in the Hotel Mar y Vent, Banyalbufar (Banalbufar), Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1930

Fashionable womens country hats 1937
Selection of Homburg hats, with dented crown and sweeping brim. Date: 1937

Felix Morris in On Change - The Theatre magazine
Felix Morris performing in On Change - in The Theatre Magazine, March 1886. 1886

Page of womens Autumn fashion 1925
Page of four fashion adverts for womens clothing, from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, October 1925. Harvey Nichols, stockinette jumper suits in wool, Marshall & Snelgrove, fur coat

Curtis British Entomology Plate 459
Lepidoptera: Nonagria vectis Curtis = Rhizedra lutosa (Isle of Wight Wainscot. The identity is fairly obvious, although the synonym is omitted from the standard Check Lists) [Plant

Curtis British Entomology Plate 276
Lepidoptera: Acontia catena = Acontia nitidula (Brixton Beauty Moth). Improbably British, despite retention in check lists. [Plant: Papaver rhoeas (Common Red Poppy)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 275
Coleoptera: Saperda atkinsoni = Saperda tremulae (Grove-end Longicorn: not indigenous, omitted from Pope?s Check List) [Plant: Tragopogon pratensis (Yellow Goat?s-beard)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 219
Coleoptera: Monochamus sartor (Genus omitted from Pope?s Check List) [Plant: Saxifraga tridactylites (Rue-leaved Saxifrage)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 170
Lepidoptera: Eudorea murana = Scoparia scoparia (The Curtis genus Eudorea having been sunk, and his specific name not Check Listed)

An article entitled What People are Wearing which features a Chinese badger fur coat from the London Fur Company, houndstooth check trousers, and a long kanga dress. Date: 1966

Cartoon, The good trader. A salesman of food and other items offers a French soldier some Camembert cheese for a much lower price if he will say where the 20th Corps is

Man Writes Check Date: 1948

PICNIC FOR ONE 1930S
Smiling woman, wearing finely striped dress, bangles & sandals, enjoys bread & butter alfresco from a picnic hamper. The food & tea flask is laid out upon a gingham cloth. Date: 1930s

OUTDOOR GIRLS 1832
Girls: white knee-length dress ornamented with tucks, black velvet spencer with imbecile sleeves, pantalettes, pelerine with vandykes; red & black plaid mantle with a cape. Date: 1832

CHILD FASHIONS 1931
American fashions: a little boy wears a short & shirt set, the girls wear frocks reminiscent of their mothers. The eldest girl wears a shirt & tie with a skirt & jacket. Date: 1931

MADRAS CHECK FROCK 1940S
A young woman, wearing a madras check dress with short puff sleeves, paints her nails. Date: 1940s

EXCHANGE TRADERS 1960S
Traders in spotless suits, ties and the occasional top hat, check the prices of well established British stocks (including Rolls Royce) Date: 1960s

Woman wearing high waist skirt 1930
A high waisted check skirt worn with a cream blouse and an orange sash. Date: 1930s

FEMALE TYPE / MIRROR 1929
An elegant woman looks at her reflection in the mirror to check that her makeup is in good order. Date: 1929

Oh You Pretty Darling! Grand Theatre, Luton
Oh You Pretty Darling! at the Grand Theatre, Luton. early 20th century

Hullo! Everybody, Revue, Hippodrome, Putney, SW London
Hullo! Everybody, Revue, at the Hippodrome, Putney, SW London, a Harry Day production. 1916

Studio photographic portrait of a young girl wearing a check dress, her dark curly hair partly tied back. Date: circa 1900s

Inspector Sheila Ward, Met Police, London
Inspector Sheila Ward (b.c1937), Met Police, London, the first woman to hold the post of Station Inspector, at Kings Cross. Seen here speaking to a line of male police officers

Princess Margaret meeting Metropolitan Police officers during a visit to the Commissioners Mess. Among those present are Assistant Commissioner John Gerrard

Eight women police officers in new Surrey uniform
Eight women police officers posing in the new Surrey uniform introduced in 1973. The jacket was single-breasted with four buttons, trousers were introduced as an option

Male and female police officers on duty in London, walking along a pavement with traffic on the road in the background. The WPC (Siobhan Clark)

Two women police officers in updated uniform, London
Two women police officers posing in the updated uniform introduced in 1977, with a range of mix and match options. The checkered cravat replaced the bow tie, though here the cravat is not patterned

Women police officers at passing out parade, London
Two women police officers in uniform, with medals, at a Cadet School passing out parade, London, in the summer of 1981. Date: 1981

Prince George, Duke of Kent stylish checked twill suit, 1930
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), pictured wearing a smart, double-breasted suit in a brown mixture cheviot with a bold twill ground and large overcheck of a lighter shade. Date: 1930

Janis Martin with teddy boy
Janis Darlene Martin (1940-2007), American singer, nicknamed the Female Elvis, seen here with an admiring teddy boy who has her name tattooed on his arm

Advertisement for Ross Frozen Foods -- father and son sawing a log in the back garden. 1959

Half Pierrot costume
A gentleman in (most of) a Pierrot costume, although he seems to feel that his Mothers bathcap would be suitable headgear to accompany the voluminous check trouser suit... Date: circa 1920s

School medical
Health service for schoolchildren, 1938

Young boy flying a kite
A young boy in a yellow check shirt with shoulder patches flies a kite on a reel of twine whilst kneeling at the base of a low hill amongst the mushrooms below his cottage home

Christmas card, A Timely Cheque
Christmas card by Robert Dudley, A Timely Cheque (two robins playing chess). (2 of 9) Date: circa 1890s

Joe Kings Rathskeller, New York City, USA
Joe Kings Rathskeller, 17th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City, USA -- a retro-style restaurant serving old-fashioned German-American-Irish food. Date: circa 1950s

Tea table with strawberries and jam
Tea table set out with freshly picked strawberries, a pot of jam, and cups of tea poured out. 1936

Sandwich board man with dogs on a Victorian scrap
Sandwich board man attacked by two dogs on a Victorian scrap. He is advertising J Thridgould & Co, Sidney Street (off Commercial Road), cheapest house in London for scraps

Advertisement for Felco chain block. 1938

Five police officers, including Inspector Helen Hunt, who is wearing the Norman Hartnell style womens uniform introduced in 1968

Margaret Thatcher meeting Metropolitan Police officers
Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, nee Roberts, 1925-2013), who served as British Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990

Woman police officer with car and radio, Egham, Surrey
Woman police officer (mobile officer) on duty in Egham, Surrey, standing by a police car and speaking on a handheld radio

Woman police officer in uniform, London
Woman police officer in woollen V-neck jumper and trousers, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Jewellery designer Carol Russell in Biba
Carol Russell, a freelance jewellery designer wearing a jersey trouser suit from Biba in a brown and beige check. The necklace is one of her own and was available from Tony Armstrong boutique

Burberry cotton houndstooth coat and Simone Mirman turban
A Burberry in French cotton printed in large black and white houndstooth design, fully shower proof and lined with cherry taffeta

Susie Bisco in 1960s fashions
Susie Bisco, fashion coordinator for an advertising agency in New York, pictured wearing a black and white check dress (and English import for Bigi of Bergdorf Goodman)

American anti-gambling cartoon
An American anti-gambling cartoon, showing a Rum-Soaked Old Sport sitting at a table. The verse below ends: It would be very hard to find / A more worthless, useless sample of mankind. Date: 1906

Tile designs in SMB wallpaper sample book
Fourteen Tileonite tile designs in an SMB wallpaper sample book. The only British made enamelled metal decoration on zinc. Date: 1934

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping