Cracker Collection

Christmas Crackers 1907
Tom Smith Christmas crackers Louis Wains Cats 1907 Date: 1907

Overtime at a Christmas cracker factory by William Heath Rob
Colour illustration by William Heath Robinson depicting one of his usual contraptions designed to solve the increase in demand for Christmas crackers during the forthcoming festive season

A box of Christmas Eve crackers
A lovely box of Christmas crackers from the 1920s, with the contents intact and the box lid featuring a bright and jolly picture of Father Christmas being helped to cross the road by a policeman

Christmas cracker box label
Label for a box of Batgers crackers depicting three performing monkeys, one balancing with a parasol, another playing the ukelele and a third banginga drum

G Sparagnapane Christmas crackers
Catalogue cover for G Sparagnapane and Co, ornamental confectioners and manufacturers of Christmas crackers

Christmas crackers box label
Label for a box of Batgers Carnival crackers featuring a couple in fancy dress, he dressed as Harlequin, playing a ukelele and a banjo

Boy and girl in paper hats pull a cracker at the party table Date: circa 1929

Label design, Tom Smiths Christmas Crackers. circa 1900

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, end of a perfect day
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- Cracker the bull terrier at the end of a perfect day, having organised a successful dog show. Date: 1927

Sketches of a bull terrier by Cecil Aldin
Two sketches of a bull terrier by Cecil Aldin -- probably his own dog, Cracker. Date: 1939

Cracker Advertisement
Father Christmas Advertising Tom Smiths crackers

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cracker and Bogie
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cracker subjecting a small dog called Bogie to a nightly ordeal, holding her collar in his mouth and dragging her round the lawn on her back. Date: 1927

Christmas Crackers
Hovells Parlour Games Christmas Crackers, 1888 Date: 1888

Batgers Musical Party Crackers
A group enjoy a party game where everyone is given a whistle and one person, wearing a rather silly party hat, stands up and conducts

Batgers Crackers
A girl in a yellow party frock and matching hat slides down a staircase on a tea tray while a motley group of revellers in fancy dress cheer her on

Batgers Queen of the Party Cracker
Colour illustration taken from a Christmas cracker box

Batgers Artist Crackers
A colour illustration from a Christmas cracker box

Robins and Crackers
Two robins pull a cracker - a very early Christmas card

G Sparagnapane Christmas crackers
Catalogue for G Sparagnapane Christmas crackers, who claim to be the oldest manufacturer in the United Kingdom

Christmas cracker box label by Barribal
Label for a box of Christmas crackers featuring a design by the artist William Barribal. Typical of the artist, it shows a sensual looking flapper girl posing in a party dress while seated on a bench

Christmas Cracker box label
Label from a box of musical toy crackers featuring a cello playing pixie flanked by two smaller pixies holding Chinese paper lanterns against starry sky

Batgers Viking Crackers
A colour illustration from a Christmas cracker box

WW2 - Jack Warner Comic Strip
An illustrated wartime comic strip page for Jack Warner The Witty Wireless Wise Cracker. Date: 1942

Caley Crackers, Norwich - Coming To Your Town Date: 1950s

Children in fancy dress pulling a Christmas cracker Date: 1940s

Original Artwork - Girl with box of Christmas crackers
Original Artwork - Design for a postcard, featuring a girl in a yellow dress holding a box of Christmas crackers. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas Cracker packaging design
Original Artwork - Painted design for advertising/packaging for C.W.S. Christmas Crackers, with the crackers coming to life and wandering away! Date: circa 1937

Christmas place marker - Dutch boy with large cracker
Christmas place marker - Little Dutch boy in traditional costume, holding a large cracker. Date: circa 1937

Artwork suggestion for Party Tableware - Two Christmas Mice
Artwork suggestion for Party Tableware - serviette ring place cards designed for paper serviettes (or crackers) - Two Christmas Mice. Date: circa 1937

Christmas card, Black kitten in a sack - Best of Luck for Christmas. (front cover, 1 of 2) 20th century

Red cracker butterfly and palm nut grubs
Red cracker butterfly, Hamadryas amphinome (copied from Maria Sibylla Merian), and palm nut grubs, larvae of the South American palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum

Monarch, red cracker and doris longwing butterflies
Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Danais archippus), red cracker, Hamadryas amphinome (Peridromia amphinome) and doris longwing, Leparus doris (Heliconius doris)

Red cracker butterfly, Hamadryas amphinome (Amphinome, Papilio amphinome), caterpillar and pupa. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Cracker butterfly, Hamadryas arethusa, Panara
Cracker butterfly, Hamadryas arethusa, upper side 1, under side 4, Panara jarbas 2, and Symmachia menetas eurina butterfly 3. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Variable cracker and Indian orange-tip butterfly
Variable cracker butterfly, Hamadryas feronia 1, 2, and Indian species of orange-tip butterfly, Iphias glaucippe 3, 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Box Lid, Tom Smiths Christmas Crackers. 19th century

Box Lid, Victorian Christmas Crackers. 19th century

Cover design, clown with Christmas cracker
Cover design, clown blowing through a Christmas cracker. 1937

Christmas crackers, Batgers Eastern Crackers, with a silhouette of a camel

Christmas cracker box lid by William Haskell Coffin

Christmas card, Seasons Greetings. Date: circa 1950s

Two wooden dolls pulling a cracker on a greetings card -- Gay Young Sparks. Date: circa 1900s

Cutout birthday card, age 6, with two children pulling paper crackers. Date: circa 1920s

Victor G Ginn catalogue, Christmas Crackers. 1939

Label, Cherub with Love Letter riding in a rose
Christmas Cracker Label, Cherub with Love Letter or Valentines Card riding in a pink rose pulled along by butterflies. 19th century

Christmas Cracker Label with Snow Scene. 19th century

Cat and kittens with a tree on a Christmas postcard
Cat and four kittens with a decorated a tree on a Christmas postcard -- Temptation. Date: circa 1900s

Edwardian lady bursting from a Christmas Cracker
Edwardian lady (likely to be a stage star or popular singer) bursting from an exploding Christmas Cracker. Date: 1907

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