Clover Collection

4-Leaf Clover - Barde
Clover plant with several four-leaf clusters

American St Patricks Day Card Date: circa 1910

Frog celebrating the arrival of 1907 by firing a cannon
A wonderfully odd German New Years card, welcoming in the arrival of 1907. The illustration rather bizarrely depicts a frog (holding a lucky four-leafed clover)

Trifolium pratensis, clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Boy and Clover - 1
A boy walks through the snow carrying a very large four- leaved clover Date: 1910

Svata Hora, Pribram, Czech Republic
The key religious objects and buildings at the pilgrimage site of Svata Hora, located just above the city of Pribram in the Czech Republic (Central Bohemian Region)

New Year Card 1909
January 1st greetings card including pink ribbons and a four leaf clover for luck in the New Year

King George V - Oval portrait
King George V (1865-1936) - Oval portrait. Date: circa 1910

London I Cannot Leave You
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for London I Cannot Leave You, words by Kieran Tunney, music by Lord Foley. The image shows a view of St. Paul's Cathedral. Date: 1941

Cary Grant and Lucile Fairbanks
Hollywood stars Cary Grant (1904-1986) and Lucile Fairbanks (1917-1999) at the Clover Club. Date: 1939

Clouded Yellow butterflies on Clover by David Parry

Jack Hulbert in Clowns in Clover, Adelphi Theatre, London
Jack Hulbert in Clowns in Clover, Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London, also with Cicely Courtneidge and June. Date: circa 1920s

Art Nouveau abstract design Date: early 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - In Clover
The caption on the postcard is In Clover. Being In Clover meant that one is in a very happy state of mind. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1945

Old lady, eastern alchymist, etc
Old lady or black underwing, Mormo maura 1, eastern alchymist, Aedia leucomelas 2, and Dypterygia scabriuscula 3, 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann

Spotted clover, Guernsey underwing, straw underwing, etc
Spotted clover, Schinia scutosa 1, 2, Epilecta linogrisea 3, Guernsey underwing, Polyphaenis sericata 4, and straw underwing, Thalpophila matura 5, 6

Zigzag clover or trefoil, Trifolium medium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1794

Sweet clover species, Melilotus officinalis, and tuberous hawkbit, Leontodon tuberosus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Bird vetch, Vicia cracca, and yellow sweet clover species, Melilotus officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Yellow sweet clover species, Melilotus officinalis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Red clover, Trifolium pratense, mountain clover, T. montanum, and blue fenugreek, Trigonella caerulea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch

Plumed cockscomb, Celosia argentea, and clover, Trifolium species. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Crimson clover or Italian clover, Trifolium incarnatum, Trefle incarnat. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Cowslip Burnet, Clover, Docks, Thistles, Kecksies and Burs (King Henry V). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare

Red clover, Trifolium pratense
Common purple clover, red clover or honeysuckle trefoil, Trifolium pratense. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

Yellow sweet clover or melilot, Melilotus officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 659
Lepidoptera. Euclidia glyphica (Burnet Companion) [Plant: Trifolium subterraneum (Subterranean Clover)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 259
Coleoptera: Bolboceras mobilicornis = Odontaeus armiger (Many-horned Scarab) [Plant: Lotus corniculatus (Common Bird?s-foot Clover)] Date: 1824-39

Name Postcard - Jennie Date: circa 1909

American Valentines Day card
To my Sweetheart An amorous young chap in full pierrot fig, presenting his beloved (wearing her prettiest purple ball gown) with a giant heart as a sign of his affection. Date: circa 1910s

Envelope with red seal on a greetings postcard
Envelope with red seal and a four-leaf clover on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Shaftesbury Park, Carrickfergus - an elevated view of the park and the clover pond. There are people and in the distance buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Carrickfergus)

Advert for Wilson & Gill jewellery 1894
Selection of novelty jewellery from Wilson & Gill, in Regent Street, London. 1894

Trifolium montanum, mountain clover
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Saint Patrick / Anon Col
SAINT PATRICK Shown in military dress on horseback with club and a shield with three leaf clover motief. Date: 390 - 461

The Clover Room inside Hotel Bristol in New York City, USA
The dining hall called The Clover Room inside Hotel Bristol at West 48th Street in New York City, USA. Date: circa 1910

Contented pig couple on a French postcard. Date: circa 1890s

A scene from Clowns in Clover at the Adelphi Theatre, London (1927) Date: 1927

Joseph Clover
JOSEPH CLOVER Vet of Norwich, known as the Father of the Veterinary Art. Date: 1725 - 1811

Afternoon hats 1867
Two women wearing finely woven straw circular bonnet without a brim or crown, decorated with wheat and clover leaves, tied loosely with lace around the chin. 1867

Illustration, Pieridae -- Colias Palaeno, Colias Phicomone, Colias Hylae, Colias Edusa. The plants are Sainfoin (Onobrychis Sativa and Coronilla Varia) and Purple Clover (Trifolium Pratense)

Elegant woman with pig & clover
Art Nouveau style beauty with pig and clover to signify good luck. Artist: Raphael Kirchner Date: circa 1900

Botanical Sketchbook -- Dutch Clover. Date: 1920s

Hungry Peter as a growing piglet drinking from a bowl
In Clover -- Hungry Peter the pig as a growing piglet, drinking milk from a bowl with a blue ribbon tied round his neck. Date: 1912

Irish New Year Souvenir postcard featuring a number of Good Luck devices. Date: circa 1906

Thessaloniki, Greece - Various sights - Good Luck postcard
Good Luck sent from Thessaloniki, Greece - Various sights - Greetings postcard. Date: circa 1916

Egypt - The Colossi of Memnon Date: circa 1903

Douglas World Cruiser Major Martin and Lt Wade
Douglas World Cruiser. Major Martin and Lt Wade at Clover Field, Santa Monica, California

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