Hopeful Collection

Saucy and silly seaside postcard with cheeky caption
A Young man heads out to sea in a small rowing boat named the Saucy Sue - she instructs him: " Mind you don t goo too far, Darling!

Georgian cartoon, money for a beer shop
Georgian cartoon, hopeful man trying to persuade cook to invest her savings in a beer shop Date: circa 1820s

Comic Postcard - Improvements on Nature - Hair and Make-up (rouge, enamel, violet powder)
Comic Postcard - Improvements on Nature - Hair and Make-up (rouge, enamel, violet powder, a corset and a wig) - everything needed to transform ones appearance.. Date: 1910

GERMAN STRAW BOOTS
A German soldier makes himself boots of straw - a hopeful attempt to keep out the cold Date: circa 1943

Whats left?, woman and children waiting for leftovers
A woman and a group of children wait for leftovers at a fishmonger and poulterers shop. A well-to-do mother and daughter are seen leaving the shop

CATS MEAT MAN / PETHERICK
The cats meat man chops up meat on his barrow watched by a hopeful cat and dog. Date: 1870

Platform of Museum Underground Station
Central Line series. A variety of passengers awaiting their train on the platform at Museum - two prim and proper Bloomsbury Spinsters

Will You Be My Valentine by A. K. Macdonald
Lovely double page spread from The Tatler for Valentines Day. A poem is decorated with charming romantic vignettes. 1930

The personification of Hope, particularly in the maritime world. It is easy to see (when looking at this card) whereupon the phrase (and pub name!) The Hope and Anchor originates! Date: 1914

Caricature of F B Chatterton and Leopold Lewis
Caricature of Frederick Balsir Chatterton (1834-1886), theatre manager, and Leopold Davis Lewis (1828-1890), dramatist. What will they do at the Wells? 1881

Chunnel Hopes & Fears
Britain is both hopeful and fearful about the Channel Tunnel... Date: 1882

Hopeful Sick Await Mass
Invalid pilgrims wait patiently in their wheelchairs for the afternoon Mass in front of the Rosary Date: 1986

Signs of Spring by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy looks at some sprouting bulbs in a plant pot. Date: 1941

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Theres a Good Time Coming
" We have to gian the victory - that is our task." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister Theres a Good Time Coming - a little girl sees a future without rationing

An applicant for a Coachmans Job waits nervously Date: 1895

Great Expectations - Waiting to see An Ideal Husband
Satirical card entitled Great Expectations. A group of women waiting to see a performance of An Ideal Husband (an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde) at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Date: 1895

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

Advert for British Industrial Plastic Limited 1942
Shush - secret session for advancd thinkers. Post-war planners have been told - sometimes rudely - that we ve got to win the war first. We agree - absolutely

David Wright Home Chat calendar 1950 featuring dachshund
Front cover of a giveaway calendar incorporated into Home Chat magazine, featuring a dachshund hopefully holding his lead in his mouth, an unusual subject for David Wright

Two aspiring musical comedy artistes, London
Minter and Osborn of Manchester, contestants in the 13th Encore Competition staged in Collins Music Hall, Islington, London

Italy Rome Castel
formerly the Mausoleum of Hadrian : seen across the Tiber, where a hopeful fisherman is trying his luck. Date: 1890s

The visit of Dr Syntax to the widow hopeful at York
Dr Syntax talks to the hopeful widow whilst a gentleman eavesdrops on their conversation behind a screen

Technical Institute, Mining
Mining Technical Institute, Burnley, Lancashire, England. A class of teenage boys in hard hats, all hopeful to be one of tomorrows miners

The Wishful Thinker / W H Robinson
An elderly gentleman in a bath chair sits and waits to be pulled along by a small toy horse. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans

Cinderella dreams of a better life
Poor downtrodden Cinderella sits in the kitchen, dreaming of a better life (so distracted she misses the little birds tucking in to the supper for her evil sisters)

Swinging in Spain
El Columpio (= swing) in Andaluzia : most eyes except the dogs are on the young girl, hopeful or fearful that she will display her underwear

Happy Divorcee
Amoureuse - shes worried Fiancee - shes hopeful Mariee - shes dubious Divorcee - shes happy !

USA Cisco Station
Cisco Station, California, a typical frontier town at the time when hopeful settlers were pouring into the West

Holiday Snap
As this holidaymaking family stroll along the promenade at Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk, they are snapped by a hopeful photographer

Rabbit for dinner
An early Victorian print showing a couple outside their rural cottage contemplating eating one of their rabbits. The woman seems rather upset about it all but the dog looks hopeful

Pilgrims Progress 19
Hopeful and Christian cross the river

Pilgrims Progress 18
Hopeful realises he has been a great sinner, ut is now converted

Pilgrims Progress 15
Christian and Hopeful are prisoners in the dungeon of Giant Despair

Pilgrims Progress 17
Deluded by the Flatterer, Christian and Hopeful are caught in the net

Pilgrims Progress 14
Demas invites Christian and Hopeful to see the silver mine

The Magic Mistletoe by Balliol Salmon
A fancy dress party scene showing a Pierrot ignoring a hopeful young lady who has positioned herself under a bunch of mistletoe

Farmer Feeding Cats
A farmer or farm hand sits in a wicker basket and feeds two hungry cats, one of them begging on its hind legs! Note the hopeful dog on the right. Date: early 1930s

Girl & Mistletoe
ANTICIPATION ! A girl waits hopefully beneath the mistletoe

1918 / Russia & Uncle Sam
The Hopeful Doctor Uncle Sam has high hopes for the new Russia

Charladys Motorcycle
The motorcycle of the Royal Enfield travelling charlady with its hopeful sign: Stop me for cleaning, no job too small and mop and bucket ready to go !

Sewing Valentine Hearts
A hopeful young lady sews red satin hearts for Valentines Day

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping