Claims Collection (page 2)

Advert for Electropathic Belt of Life 1882
Professor Barkers Belt of Life for women and men, helps stimulate, invigorate strengthen and exhilarate. 1882

Advert for Patent Electropathic socks 1882
Patent Electropathic socks, simply put inside the shoes or boots, and after a short time a continued and most beneficial warmth creating a bodily comfort

Sir J Gordon Sprigg. Part of Box 104 Boswell Collection. Sprigg was born in Ipswich, England, into a strongly Puritan family

Sarah Gilly
SARAH GILLY Daughter of Matthew Gilly of Tottenham, but if she has any other claims on our notice, they have not come to our notice... Date: ? - 1659

Duchessa Di Galliera
La duchessa di GALLIERA Italian aristocrat, who died in Paris but would doubtless have other claims on our attention if we knew more about her. Date: ? - 1888

St Johns, Upper Eldon
This little church in the village of Eldon, near Kings Sombourne, Hampshire, claims to be the smallest in England. The village itself is only 25 feet long, with only 7 people! Date: 1930s

William Bedloe
WILLIAM BEDLOE, described as the Discoverer of the Popish Plot, in fact an unscrupulous liar whose implausible claims were inconsistent with those of Titus Oates and others. Date: 1650 - 1680

Advert for J. W Rowe & Co. electrical massage apparatus 1902
Heath in every home! by using Rogers consoidated electrical massage and medical apparatus. Claims to cures lots of alliaments. 1902

Vernon at Cartagena / 1741
The Spanish American port of Cartagena besieged by Admiral Vernon. Despite Vernons claims, the operation was a failure, and many men were lost through disease. Date: March 1741

Advert for Dr. Scotts electric plasters 1889
They who suffer ache and pain, need suffer never more again. With the new invention Dr. Scotts electric plaster. Claiming to cure many illnesses

Advert for Electropathic Battery Belt 1892
Mr. C. B Harness the president of the Institute and the other officers of the Company, may consulted free of charge on all matters relating to health and the application of curative electricity

Girdle that reduces waist and hips
New hour-a-day girdle reducess waist and hips often 3 inches the very first week ! now at last you can wear the stylish, decoming clothes your heart desires - without worrying about an unattractive

Synchronised Swimming Wedding causes quite a stir
August 1962, Kinson, Bournemouth. The wedding of Eileen Hart, 22 of New Milton and David King of Coombe Gardens, Bournemouth caused quite a stir (and claims of a publicity stunt)

Advert for Reduca chin-strap helmet 1933
Regain a youthful chin-line, nothing betrays a womans age more definitely than a double-chin, yet this can be comfortably removed (or prevented) with the new Reduca chin-strap helmet. 1933

Suffragette Card Game Snap Grandma. A card game, possibly a version of Snap with a suffragette theme. One of eight cards, this shows Dear old Grandma who claims, I never needed a vote Date: circa 1908

Servants Night-time Visiting Ban at Congleton, Cheshire
Following claims, in 1842, that the practice of allowing young men to pay night-time visits to female servants in agricultural areas of the Wrexham Union resulted in many single mothers at

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

PEARY 1898
ROBERT EDWIN PEARY American explorer in the Arctic whose claims are still in question. Date: 1856 - 1920

Peary Photo
ROBERT EDWIN PEARY American explorer in the Arctic whose claims are still in question. Date: 1856 - 1920

Montague Guest
MONTAGUE GUEST Politician who apparently acquired a reputation for asking questions in the House of Commons. His other claims to fame can only be guessed. Date: CIRCA 1881

Boasting actor submits acting claim to Sir Henry Irving
Tradgedian (disappointed) - " You should see me play amlet, Irvin! Why, I could act is bloomin ead off!" Sir Henry Irving looks less than impressed with this claim by a jobbing actor rather

A couple claims justice before the king (14th c

Liberty claims her own!. Allegory showing the figure of Liberty gathering up the specters of fallen soldiers from a cemetery. Date 1917 or 1918

Oldest boy of family of nine, seventeen years old, claims two years schooling; living with his family in open field, on US Route 70 between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee. Date 1936 Mar

Advert for Leichners slim figure bath 1928
Keep slim and fit. Safe, simple and convenient reduction in weight - better health - a clearer skin - all yours bedtime bath a packet of new and wonderful Leichners slim figure bath No.1001

The Oldest Chemists Shop
Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, which, naturally, claims to be the oldest chemists shop in England! It is in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Date: founded circa 1720

Trip to Jerusalem Cellar
The rock cellar of Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem inn, at Nottingham, England, which dates from c. 1165 and claims to be Englands oldest public house. Date: 12th century

Oldest House in Wales
The Aberconway, an ancient timbered building in Conway, north Wales, which claims to be the oldest house in Wales. Built c. 1300, a fine example of medieval architecture. Date: early 14h century

Bulgaria claiming independence - manifesto
The Manifesto of 22nd September 1908 in which Prince Alexander of Bulgaria declare himself King; independent of the Turks. Date: 1908

London Clearing House
The London CLEARING HOUSE, an institution enabling bankers to adjust their mutual claims for cheques and bills Date: circa 1860

Racial / Aborigine Family
A native Australian family group is attacked by others - probably a dispute over territorial claims Date: 1863

Les Charlatans Italiens
Print of etching of " Les Charlatans Italiens" by Karel Dujardin, 1657. HPG/8/2/1 (x)"

Andorra Revolution
Revolution breaks out in the independent republic of Andorra, where Carlist claims and church influence provoke unrest

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

Fable / Wolf and Crane
THE WOLF AND THE CRANE A crane agrees it will extract a bone from a wolfs throat on promise of a reward; the wolf claims not closing its jaws on the cranes head reward enough

Mercury & the Woodcutter
MERCURY & THE WOODCUTTER A woodman who has lost his axe begs Jupiter to send it back; Mercury brings axes of gold & silver, but the honest woodman claims only his own

Fable / Rat and Elephant
THE RAT AND THE ELEPHANT A rat claims he is as good as the elephant on whose back rides a wealthy sultan and his entourage; the sultans cat reminds him he is vulnerable

Molls Coffee House
Formerly Molls Coffee House in Exeter, Devon now a fine art dealers. The panel on the front claims the naval and military generals met here before fighting the Armada

Aquatic Velocipede
The unnamed inventor of this aquatic velocipede claims to have used it successfully through the winter. Three air filled receptacles keep him up, pedals give motive power

Royalist Portraits
To discourage legitimism, portraits of the comte de Chambord, who claims the throne, and his countess, are seized in the atelier of artist Perignon, Paris

Gladstone wearing an electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1886 for the Medical Battery Companys Electropathic Belt, featuring a caricature of William Gladstone, Prime Minister wielding an axe and wearing the belt

German Tank in Snow
A German tank in the snow- covered Russian countryside. The caption claims that the Germans are successful in all weathers, but events were to prove otherwise

DON CARLOS
Don Carlos, chief contender for the throne, claims to be legitimate heir. Reactionary, opposing reform, staunchly Catholic, he is seen returning from mass at Estella

Talmas Audience
French actor TALMA, by sheer will-power, sees his audience divested of their clothes and transformed into skeletons, which he claims inspires his finest performances

Possession / Cadiere 1730S
At Aix-en-Provence, Catherine Cadiere claims to have been bewitched and seduced by Pere Girard, and to be possessed by devils in consequence

Kind-Hearted Butcher
I m a kind-hearted fellow, wouldn t hurt a fly!, claims a butcher who has just slit the throat of a lamb

Jehan De Varennes / Froiss
Jehan de Varennes, French nobleman and religious reformer, preaching : devout and ascetic, he claims to be the true pope, and attracts a numerous following

Bureau De Constatations
The BUREAU DE CONSTATATIONS, where claims to have been cured are evaluated by a team of doctors

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