Font Collection

William Shakespeare on a Christmas card
Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Shakespeare with a quotation on a Christmas card (front and back covers) -- Heaven bless you and prosper your affairs (Henry IV, Part 2)

Boulton Paul Overstrand Bomber - RAF
Boulton Paul " Overstrand" High-speed Day or Night Bomber, powered by two Bristol Pegasus 600hp engines. No.101 (B) Squadron. Date: 1935

Baptism of King Guthrum, Viking leader
The Baptism of Guthrum, King of the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw - King Alfred was his Godfather. Guthrum was christened Aethelstan on his conversion to Christianity. 878

Interior of church, Heuru, San Cristobal, Solomon Islands
Interior of church, Heuru, San Cristobal (Makira), Solomon Islands. Date: 1906

The Font St John's Church Little Gidding Cambridgeshire
The, Font, St, John's, Church, Little, Gidding, Cambridgeshire, real, photo, postcard, Stearn's, Cambridge, , 13974360

Church Christening scene, suitable for christening party invitation card Date: early 19th century

Font-de-Gaume Caves, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

St Bartholomew's Church, Churchdown, Gloucestershire
Interior of St Bartholomew's Church, looking east, in the village of Churchdown, Gloucestershire Date: 1930s

Dragons - Tournai font at All Saints Church, East Meon
A close-up detailed view of the dark limestone Tournai font at All Saints Church, East Meon, Hampshire. Likely a gift from Bishop Henry de Blois

Adam and Eve - Tournai Font, All Saints Church, East Meon
A close-up detailed view of the Adam and Eve side of the dark limestone Tournai font at All Saints Church, East Meon, Hampshire

The Tournai font at East Meon Church, Hampshire
A close-up detailed view of the dark limestone Tournai font at All Saints Church, East Meon, Hampshire. Likely a gift from Bishop Henry de Blois

12th century font in the Church of Our Lady at Warnford
An early 12th century font in the Church of Our Lady at Warnford, Hampshire. Date: 1932

Royal Regalia 7 and 8 - baptismal font, salt cellar, crowns, coronets

Charles Dickens, places of birth, baptism, marriage, burial
Charles Dickens, places of birth, baptism, marriage and burial Date: 1912

The Chapel, Hatfield House - consecrated in 1614. Date: 1903

Camouflaged civilians, home guards and dogs in a London park hiding from the enemy above. Date: 1941

Priory Church, Malvern, interior looking West Date: circa 1890

Comic postcard, Woman, baby and vicar at baptism Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Father not present at baptism Date: 20th century

Font, Hereford Cathedral, Herefordshire, England Date: circa 1910s

Tewkesbury Abbey, interior, Gloucestershire, England. Date: circa 1920s

Font in the Saxon church of St. Marys at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England, scene of a treaty between Canute and Edmund Ironside in 1016. Date: circa 1920s

Comic postcard, dilemma at baptism Date: 20th century

English gentleman in his study hearing a case of poaching
English gentleman in his study with his wife hearing a case of poaching on his estate. A gamekeeper holds up a hare while the alleged poachers family plead for his life

Earl French Memorial Font, St Georges Church, Ypres Date: 2017

Baptistry Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton. circa 1880

Seventeenth century Horn Book, teaching aid, with the letters of the alphabet and two prayers. 17th century

Christmas card with geometrical designs and verse in gothic script. circa 1880

St Marys Church, Iffley, Oxfordshire - the Font
St Marys Church, Iffley, Oxfordshire, dating back to the 12th century - the Font, made of Tournai marble from Flanders. Date: circa 1845

Ancient Greek women at their toilet: washing hair in a font, trying on clothes, arranging hair, admiring a necklace, etc, Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso after a painting by Pelagio

Type founders making metal type near a furnace
Type founders making metal type for a printing press near a furnace. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Type founders making printing type in a workshop. The caster pours hot metal into letter moulds and then throws the letters to a polisher who sits at a polishing stone

South Chapel, Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire
South Chapel of Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

Advert, polishing and plating supplies, New York City, USA
Advert, Zucker & Levett & Loeb Co, polishing and plating supplies, West 25th Street, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1880s

Church interior with font, Bosham, Chichester, West Sussex
Holy Trinity Church interior with old font, Bosham, Chichester, West Sussex. Date: early 20th century

Atlantic City, New Jersey
Front cover of a Colourtone concertina postcard wallet envelope, showing the breakers at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Date: c. 1936

Ladies having a chat over Afternoon Tea. Date: 1905

Parish Church, Halifax, Yorkshire
Interior of Parish Church, Halifax, Yorkshire. circa 1900

View of the nave, Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire
View of the nave (looking east), the Abbey Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, dating back to the 12th century. Date: circa 1900s

Cover design, The Entr acte Annual for 1884, containing theatrical cartoons by Alfred Bryan. 1884

EDWARD VII / CHRISTENING
Victoria and Albert at the baptism of their first son, the future Edward VII Date: 1842

VICTORIA / EDWARD BAPTISED
Victoria and Albert at the baptism of their first son, Edward, the future Prince of Wales Date: 1842

The Prussians settle themselves in Saint-Severin church, using the font as a wash-basin, the altar as a food-store... Date: 1-3 March 1871

The Norman Font - St. Andrews Church, Hempstead, Essex
circa 1910s

Number 6
The number 6 - extracted from a point of sale card (indicating that an item is special value at 9 d.) Date: c.1920

RUSSIAN BAPTISM
Baptism ceremony in the Russian Orthodox Church - the Bishop holds up the child over the font Date: early 19th century

Large Letter Postcard from Bangor, Maine, USA, the county seat of Penobscot County. - featuring ladies and babies of the town. Date: 1909

Ornamental fountain in the Placa D Espanya, Barcelona, Spain Date: circa 1930s

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