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Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931Underwood creates the new portable typewriter. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key
Advert for Underwood portable typewriters 1931Your personal letters... write them on the Underwood portable. With a quiet carriage that never interrupts the train of thought, a quieter key action and shift key
Advert for Terrys exerciser for men 1939Christmas gift ideas from Herbert Terry exercisers, including steelstrand expander, golfer pocket wrist exerciser, spring grip dumbbells
Advert for Dolcis shoes, shopping with five coupons 1941With five wartime coupons you could buy one pair of shoes from Dolcis. Casual shoes with contrasting coloures with a crepe sole and side lace. Casual shoes with 3 eyelette tie at front in suede
Advert, Women's dresses, Fresh as a Daisy Frock Co Ltd - fashioned for Spring Date: 1955
New fabric that stretches three ways Vita-Flex was made of an exclusive process in which pure rubber was interwoven with fine cotton backing. Date: 1939
Rational Gadgets For Your Coupons by William Heath RobinsonCustomers are put on scales to determine how much butter they are entitled to, the heavier the person is, the more butter they are given. Date: 1940
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coupon shortage and making doThe long Caption gives the little girls excuse for having patches. The Home Front War Effort was helped along by cryptic slogans such as Make do and Mend and Making do
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Wish I could buy you somefinkThe Caption has the little boy saying that he has no money AND cannot buy the girl anything so he wishes her a NO COUPON HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1944
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Sun is OutThe verse on the card contains the lines Coupon trouble grows - shes naught to dry - but pegs. Clothes rationing began in June 1941 and did not end until 1949
Inside of ration book for motor spirit, September 1939Coupons for petrol found inside a ration book issued by Surrey County Council, 5 September 1939. Petrol rations were based on the horsepower of a vehicle
Two Motor Fuel Ration coupons in a bookletTwo Motor Fuel Ration coupons for a motor cycle, valid for the month of October 1947, in a booklet of coupons issued by the Minister of Fuel and Power. (2 of 3) Date: 1947
Booklet cover, Motor Fuel Ration Book for a motor cycle, September 1947 to February 1948, date stamped Woolwich SE18, 22 August 1947. (1 of 3) Date: 1947
Clothing CouponsA clothing coupon book cover
Share certificate and coupons, Kilo-Moto GoldminesShare certificate and dividend coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines, in the Belgian Congo. Date: 1944
Ottoman Empire Bearer Bond. Date: 1863
British Food Rationing, First World War, 1918Diagram showing the weekly butchers meat ration allowed for an adult (with children receiving half the amount). Rationing was introduced at the end of World War One when ships carrying food
WW2 Christmas card, clothes rationingWW2 Christmas card, comment on clothes rationing. Date: circa 1942
Advert for Drages bedroom furniture 1937Drages fine funiture. Payable in a small deposit and then pay 50 months installments. Available department stores in Oxford Street, London, Manchester and Birmingham. Date: 1937
Wurlitzer advertisement, 1925Girl of 13 makes $75 a week! Alice Higgie of Chicago made this amount weekly in vaudeville in the summer of 1924, thanks to her easy to play Wurlitzer saxophone. Send for your free book now!
Advert for Veco reducing cup for weight loss 1926New 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
Advert for Harlene hair product 1916Great Epidemic of hair trobles, if you suffer from scalp irritation, complete or partial baldness, straggling or weak hair, thin or falling hair, splitting hairs, over-greasiness of the scalp
Obtaining Encyclopaedia Britannica booksEncyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925
WW2 - Cost of a Selfridges 3-piece suit in rationing couponsWW2 - Cost of a Selfridges 3-piece suit - Cost 8 guineas and 26 Clothing rationing coupons - 17th June, 1941. In 1942, each person had 60 coupons p.a. which reduced down to 24 coupons by 1945
Paris Worlds Fair of 1900 - Circus entertainersCircus entertainers and performers and their Caravan. Illustration by Caputo on a postcard published by Courmont Freres as part of a book of discount coupons for attractions at the Paris Worlds Fair
Coupon Wedding - Cloth in short supply leads to a rather daring wedding gown! Date: 1943
Advert for Wolsey womens clothing 1943Coupon wizard by Wolsey. 1943
Advert for Wolsey womens clothing 1942Coupon wizard by Wolsey. Date: 1942
The actor Nakamura Nakazo holding a rice coupon. Print shows the actor Nakamura Nakazo, full-length, standing on the shore, facing slightly left, holding a rice coupon. Date between 1781 and 1785
Hand knitteds conserve couponsInstructions on how to make a ribbed sweater with peep bo front, and a green jerkin with full pink sleeves and detachable dicky-collar
Shop Display 1940SA window display at Lovegrove & Sons family grocers, inviting people to Come and Spend Your Points Here, i.e. to use up their rationing coupon points during wartime
Coupon Allocation 1940SHousehold management : A housewife and her adult daughter have a cup of tea and a cigarette together as they work out their coupon allocation around the table
Clothing Ration CouponsAn example of clothing coupon book