Item Collection (page 6)

Trade catalogue for Kettles and Stands 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of brass kettles and urns for use on the tea-table. Date: 1911

Trade catalogue for savoury and biscuit moulds 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of designed moulds including crown, fish, butterfly and savoury and biscuit moulds. 1911

Trade catalogue for ice cream machines 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing ice cream making and freezing machines. 1911

Trade catalogue for irons 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a selection of irons. Date: 1911

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1929
Too tired to dance, a good partner - a fine band - a jolly evening wasted, because they are too tied to enjoy themselves. What a joy it is to get up each moring felling thoroughly rested

Advert for GEC Electric cleaner 1950
GEC Electric cleaner. 1950

Advert for Burndept - Ethodyne wireless 1925
Ethodyne wireless reception, double doors open front, with slight adjustments of only two dials, the Ethodyne enables you to listen to station after station, both British and continental

Maffeo Pinelli
MAFFEO PINELLI Venetian bibliophile, holding just one item from his library... Date: 1736 - 1785

Mending household items 1943
Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1943

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1938
Its the inside that matters most! If you are buying mattress you will, of course, buy one of the spring-interior type to-day demanded by everybody with modern ideas of comfort

Advert for Kolster-Brandes in expensive radios 1931
KB inexpensive radio, with three range of wave-lengths, short, medium and long. Comes in a walnut cabinet and stand. 1931

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1933
Unequalled for comfort, The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination. The Worlds most luxurious bed equipment. The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination is unquestionably the finest bed equipment ever made to ensure

Name Card (in wood) with Swallow - Lena
Name Card (in wood) with Swallow - " Lena" Date: circa 1907

Name Card (in wood) with Swallow - Tanya
Name Card (in wood) with Swallow - " Tanya" Date: circa 1907

Item from The Scout newspaper, reporting from Grenada in the West Indies on the 1st Grenada Troop, who have helped the Fire Brigade put out a fire at a local lumber yard. November 1926

Advert for Frigidaire electrical fridge
Frigidaire automatic electrical refrigeration cabinet, keeps your food fresh, with ice for cooling drinks, and it cost less than a garage for your car! Date: 1928

Advert for Vi-Spring Mattress 1931
Built to give better rest. Inmaking of a Vi-Spring overlay mattress spring follows spring until beneath every square inch of its surface there lies a small spring to give an exquisite softness

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1928
1056 springs make the Vi-Spring mattress the most luxurious mattress obtainable Date: 1928

Shakespeare statuette
A Shakespeare statuette made of mulberry wood, 15 inches high, believed to be early 17th century. It was on sale at Sotheby s, 14 July (year unknown), and was the property of Hugh Blaker (1873-1936)

Reindeer 1553
Though the spread of its antlers are somewhat exaggerated, the reindeer is already recognised as an important item in the economy

Tiffany Glassware
An unbelievably hideous item of Tiffany glassware, designed by Hugo Schnaper, who alone knows what its meant to be, or what function it is intended to perform

Crossness Opened
J W Bazalgette opens the Southern Pumping Establishment at Crossness, a key item in his Main Drainage system for Metropolitan London

Poor Richard - 3
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : If you would know the value of money, try to borrow some

Poor Richard - 1
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : He that hath a trade, hath an estate

Poor Richard - 2
POOR RICHARDs ALMANAC Franklins Lessons in Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c, a typical item : Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee

NORMANDIE (CARD)
A typical publicity item associating the company with the newest glory of the French merchant fleet

Mushrooms Walsh 1-6 1873
Various mushrooms of the Agaricus species: the poisonous item is labelled in green

Alchemy - Lunary
The mysterious herb LUNARY grows on a mountains brim, exposed to sun by day, moon by night, thus acquiring great power : an essential item in every alchemists laboratory

Bradley in Jugend
Torch dance - Heres the greatest American exponent of art nouveau, appearing in the greatest German jugendstil magazine - a stunning item by any standards

Making Fans, Japan
Japan. - The fan is an indispensable item of Japanese life, carried everywhere : these simple fans are for everyday use, others are more ornate and costly

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