Cheque Collection

Landlord and Bar Sign
Due to the number of customers trying to pay for drinks by cheque, the landlords sign in this London pub makes it clear that draughts, not overdrafts, are available behind the bar

Cover design, Dombey and Son
Cover design, Part XI of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, August 1847, with illustrations by Hablot K Browne. 1847

Origin Species, CH Bennett, banker - vulture
Vulturine. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a vulture to a banker. Known for his beak and bald head the vulture has exchanged his feathers for a broadcloth

RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque, Mrs M A Ransom
RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque dated 28 April 1917 for four pounds and two shillings to Mrs M A (Martha Ann) Ransom, widow of first class saloon steward and victim James Ransom of Knowle, Bristol

RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque, Mrs K Jenkins
RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque for ten shillings to Mrs K Jenkins, dated 28 April 1917. She was probably the mother of second class passenger and victim, Stephen Curnow Jenkin. Date: 1917

RMS Titanic - Archibald Gracie, passenger and survivor
RMS Titanic - Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, First Class passenger and survivor, who died in December 1912 from complications following exposure to icy water

RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque, Mr J Berriman
RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque for one pound and five shillings, made payable to Mr John Berriman, father of Second Class passenger and victim William John Berriman, dated 27 May 1917. Date: 1917

RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque, Mrs A L Slemen
RMS Titanic - Relief fund cheque for one pound and two shillings dated 28 April 1917 to Mrs Augusta Louisa Slemen, mother of Second Class passenger and victim Richard James Slemen of Cornwall

LSO musicians supporting BBC musicians, London
London Symphony Orchestra musicians supporting BBC musicians outside Broadcasting House, London, 27 June 1980. The strike by BBC musicians began when the BBC put forward plans to discontinue five

English lady riding sidesaddle in a fox hunt, 19th century. Lord Marchhare points out the fox and hounds to Rosa McDermott. Rosa and the Earl

Carriage of the Hanoverian Minister in Queen Victoria s
Carriage of the Hanoverian Minister, Baron Munchhausen, in Queen Victorias coronation parade. Handcoloured aquatint engraving from Fores Correct Representation of the State Procession on the Occasion

Examples of inks for printing bank cheques. 1899

Piece of checked cloth with comic verse on a birthday card -- a check, not a cheque. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas cheque from the Happiness Bank (postcard), delivered by Santa Claus. Date: circa 1900s

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Good Wishes, paying to all good friends 366 Happy Days, from Mr and Mrs Stuart of Kempton Drive, Ilfracombe. Date: 1931

Cheque from the Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Bank, Father Christmas House, 1 Yuletide, Greenland, from Colin Cruttenden in the Print Department, decorated with holly and a pudding. Date: 1983

Christmas cheque from the Santa Claus Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, sending ten thousand kind greetings from N A Aplin to Miss Gerty Doggett. Date: 1891

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

Native American Indian chief at school, Hayle, Cornwall
Native American Indian chief with others at the Hayle Carnival, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited
Christmas cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited, paying to all true friends 365 happy days, from Mr and Mrs Kittridge of Bridge Street, Cambridge. Date: circa 1920s

Cheque from the Bank of Friendship Unlimited, Goodwill Square Branch, with one thousand kind wishes from Ernestine Edgcumbe to Ernest Cust. circa 1890s

WW1 Poster, Write a Cheque Today for National War Bonds. 1918

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Friendship (postcard), from Father Christmas, Chief Cashier. Date: 1911

Cheque from the Bank of Good Fortune, Prosperity Branch (postcard), paying the sum of 365 happy days on someones birthday. Date: circa 1890s

Caricature of David James and James Albery
Caricature of David James (left, 1839-1893), English comic actor, and James Albery (right, 1838-1889), English dramatist. Two Roses at the Lyceum, a Little Cheque

American Bankers Association Travellers Cheques
Postcard promoting American Bankers Association Travellers Cheques - The safest, handiest, most satisfactory form of travel funds - the perfect international exchange. Date: circa 1902

Christmas cheque from the Greeting Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, for ten thousand kind greetings. Date: circa 1900s

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Good Cheer, Pudding Lane Branch, with five thousand welcomes to Newport from Thomas Howells to Mrs Box. Date: 1888

Christmas cheque, with turkey, sausages and pudding
Christmas cheque from the United Kingdom of Great Blessings and Joyland, decorated with a turkey, sausages and pudding. Date: 1924

Cheque from the Christmas Bank of Prosperity, to Mr and Mrs Hancock from R and L Gunning. Date: 1934

Christmas cheque book greetings, from the Good Old Gold Christmas Banking Co Unlimited, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas cheque book from the Bank of Prosperity
Christmas cheque book greetings from the Bank of Prosperity, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Where to write on an American Travellers Cheque
Explanation of what to write and where to sign on an American Travellers Cheque. Date: 1920s

Elegant lady traveller strolling along the deck of a liner
An elegant lady traveller strolling along the deck of a liner on a windy day. She seem little perturbed by the height of the waves

Black American porter with an elegant ladys luggage
Black American railway porter carrying an elegant ladys luggage, which consists of a set of golf clubs, a small suitcase and what appears to be a hat box

Elegant Lady passenger awaiting her flight on the airfield - her biplane aircraft awaits behind. Date: 1920s

American couple studying a map in an elegant automobile
American couple studying a map, riding in the open-top rear section of an elegant cream-colured car, their luggage carefully stowed in the roofrack. Date: 1920s

A small biplane flying through the clouds. Date: 1920s

The Hon Esmond Harmsworth the son of Lord Rothermere
The Hon Esmond Harmsworth, the son of Lord Rothermere, presents Amy Johnson with the Daily Mail cheque for 10, 000 and a gold cup from the youth of Great Britain at a luncheon in her honour at

Royal College of Music opened
Philanthropist Samson Fox (1838-1903) giving a cheque for 45, 000(the amount the building cost) to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII(1841-1910), at the opening of the Royal College of Music

Collecting the first pension cheque at the post office
Collecting the first weekly pension instalment at the post office. The Old Age Pension Act was introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908 with the first pensions available on the 1st of January 1909

Viv Nicholson Wins Pools
Viv Nicholson, with her husband Keith, of Castleford, Yorkshire, winners of the Littlewoods Treble Chance Pool, are presented with their cheque by Bruce Forsyth

Office Worker
A man with a rather lavish moustache sits at his desk with his cheque book open

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