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Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth

Tsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings, most often near their entrances (helping them attract wealth and prosperity to those places as well as acting as a protection to their environments and the income which comes to them). Pictured here distributing money, a Chinese custom at New Year. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Paton's knitting wools advertisement, WW1 comforts

Advertisement for Paton's Alloa knitting wools. 'Begin your contribution to the Soldiers' Pool of Comforts. Remember the men in the trenches still need socks, gloves, mittens, helmets, mufflers and jerseys. Nothing is too good for them - and nothing is better than Paton's Alloa knitting wools.' Illustration shows women volunteers packing up comforts ready for distribution to soldiers at the front. Date: c.1915

© The Joyce Meader Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Countess Zia and Nada Torby packing mittens for troops, WW1

Countess Zia Torby (later Lady Zia Wernher) and Countess Nada Torby (later Mountbatten), daughters of Grand Duke Michael and prominent figures in society organised this group of society ladies who are busily engaged in packing knitted gloves and mittens for soldiers as part of the war effort in October 1914. Date: 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans