Gift Collection (page 12)

Couple receiving lucky slipper on a Christmas card
Couple receiving a lucky slipper from two of Santas elves on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Boats in the harbour at Polperro, Cornwall. Date: circa 1960s

Three children and stockings on a Christmas card
Three children with their stockings on a Christmas card, with a decorative border of fir tree branches and presents. Date: circa 1890s

Dog carrying basket of flowers on a Christmas card
Large dog carrying a basket of flowers in his mouth on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl in historical costume on a New Year card, carrying a large gift box. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl with flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Little boy in a sailor suit on a Christmas card, holding a toy elephant on wheels. Date: circa 1890s

Five sovereigns on a Christmas card
Five sovereigns on a card -- May Good Luck hit you jolly hard this Christmas, and may you never want... a fiver. circa 1890s

Jug full of money on a Good Luck Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Sovereign on a Christmas card -- A Slight Token of Remembrance, from Pollie to Jack. Date: circa 1890s

Bag full of money on a German cutout Christmas card, with gold and copper coins bursting out. Date: circa 1890s

Purse full of money on a cutout Christmas card
Purse (open) full of money (notes and coins) on a cutout Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: 1889

Gift of money on a cutout Christmas card
Gift of money (notes and coins) on a cutout Christmas card. Date: 1891

Memorial Organ, New City Hall, Portland, Maine, USA
Herman Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, New City Hall, Portland, Maine, USA, the gift of Cyrus H K Curtis, built in 1909, dedicated in 1912

Little girl with two kittens on a Christmas card
Little girl with two kittens in a basket on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1870s

Children with potted plants on a Christmas card
Three children with potted plants on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cherub with flowers on a romantic German greetings card with the inscription: Belief, Love, Hope. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl with flowers and card on a Christmas card
Boy and girl in a domestic interior with flowers and card on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Street in Chinatown, New York City, USA, with shops and restaurants. Date: circa 1940

Kitten on a Good Luck gift tag. Date: circa 1900s

Gift tag, birthday cake with eight candles. Date: circa 1920s

Lady sitting on a hat box. Date: circa 1920s

Two cats in a basket on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Victorian Scrap, man with bouquet of flowers
Victorian Scrap, black man with bouquet of flowers. circa 1880s

Cartoon, A great Christmas present, WW1
Cartoon, A great Christmas present. A soldier opens a wooden crate marked Very Fragile to find his godmother is inside it. Date: 1916

Cartoon, German women at Christmas, WW1
Cartoon, German women at Christmas with a table full of gift items. A woman tells her friend she is lucky her husband is fighting in the war

Cartoon, There will be a party, WW1
Cartoon, There will be a party! A woman prepares for the Christmas festivities, with a picture of her absent soldier husband at the centre of the fireplace display. Date: 1915

Cartoon, the Christmas parcel, WW1
Cartoon, the Christmas parcel. A woman writes a note to go with her Christmas parcel to her husband, away fighting at the Front

Colmans Christmas Greetings to their Young Friends - Herald
J. & J. Colmans Christmas Greetings to their Young Friends All Around the World - A youthful Medievalo Herald announces the gift of this collection of fun historical tales and illustrations

How Betty can make a Christmas hankie for mother, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

Inscription by Cecil Aldin, Dogs of Character
Inscription by Cecil Aldin in Dogs of Character: " To Jessie, from Mickey & Cracker in grateful memory of all the lovely dinners she has made for them Dec 11 1928" (signed) Date: 1927

Home for Motherless Children, Children eating apples
Home for Motherless Children residents enjoy gift of apples sent from Canada by former resident

Highbury Home for Friendless Children, Pound Day
Highbury Home for Friendless Children, North London. Leaflet advertising a Pound Day where local supporters of the home were requested to make a gift of either one pound in cash

Japanese lacquer postcard artist at work in a London shop. Date: circa 1924

Blue iris and passionflower, Iris spuria and Passiflora alata.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Carnation and marigold, Dianthus caryophyllus and Calendula officinalis.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Foxgloves and pansies, Digitalis purpurea and Viola tricolor.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Iris and primrose, Iris pseudacorus and Primula vulgaris.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Crimson amaryllis and dwarf morning glory, Hippeastrum and Convolvulus tricolor.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Camellias and daffodils, Camellia japonica and Narcissus pseudonarcissus.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Blue anemones and white snowdrops, Anemone coronaria and Galanthus nivalis.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

Persian buttercups and honeysuckles, Ranonculus asiaticus and Lonicera periclymenum.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur Chez Marcilly, Paris

Tulips and fritillaries, Tulipa and Fritillaria.. Handcolored stipple engraving from Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Dedie aus Dames par un Amateur, Chez Marcilly, Paris, 1818

WW1 - Practical Gifts for the soldier at the front
WW1 - Practical Christmas Gifts for the service men at the front from John Pound & Co. These include lamps watches a map ase, a khaki campaign roll and an aluminium canteen Date: 1915

Useful gifts for serving soldiers and sailors - WW1. A weatherproof match box and an ever-pointed magazine pencil. Advertisement for J. C

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths tea & coffee service
Quailty tea and coffee silver service, for wedding gift. Date: 1927

Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194-1250). Holy Roman Emperor (1197-1250). Duke of Swabia (1212-1216). The regent receives a hawk as a gift. Frontispiece of Art of falconry of the Emperor Frederick II

Great Chinese bell at Buckingham Palace, 1844
An extraordinary Chinese present to Queen Victoria in 1844: a great Chinese bell in the library of Buckingham Palace. About five foot high and three foot in diameter

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