Luck Collection (page 2)

WW2 Birthday Card, Digging Up Good Luck!
A WW2 birthday greetings card, Getting down to it and digging up a bumper crop of good luck for your birthday. The illustration portrays a boy digging up some horseshoes beside a black cat

WW2 Greetings Card, Fire Watchers
A WW2 greetings card, Good luck and best wishes from one fire watcher to another. The image shows two cats sat by a blazing fireplace. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, Good Luck
A WW2 greetings card wishing good fortune, of which there is no rationing! The image shows a cat shopkeeper showing his stock of horseshoes. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, R. A. F. Spitfires
A WW2 greetings card, Brave and gallant little Spitfires protect us day by day; This one to you comes winging, the best of wishes bringing, may good luck come your way

WW2 Birthday Card, Tons Of Luck
A WW2 birthday greetings card, the illustration shows a large delivery of good fortune, in the way of sacks of horseshoes, provided by a pair of cats and two horses, wearing tin hats and satchels

Royal Navy memorabilia, HMS Rodney
ROYAL NAVY: HMS Rodney rum measure, copper ashtray, caddy spoon, oval dish, sweetheart pendant, Vesta case and good luck horseshoe, framed

WW2, What Luck!
This illustration shows a wartime baby blissfully unaware of the threats and worries of the outside world, as he enjoys the milk. Date: circa 1940s

The Lottery, by William Hogarth Date: 1724

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Good luck for Victory!
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Good luck! And good luck for Victory Date: circa mid-1970s

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Charles Crumplin letter
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - First Class Bedroom Steward and victim Charles Crumplin, handwritten letter on Titanic stationery with White Star Line watermark, undated but written from Queenstown

Leslie Howe of Tottenham Hotspur with chimney sweep
Leslie Howe of Tottenham Hotspur, lucky handshake with chimney sweep supporter William Carpenter Date: 1946

Three Japanese Gifts for Felicitous Events, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Osaka. Top: Symbol of Supreme Felicity - red and white silk crepe, pine foliage, crane and tortoise

Photographs of the Grand National, including two falls, and group clearing Becher's Brook. Captioned, The Grand National: Luck - Good and Bad - Round the Course'

Pink and blue flowers on a German greetings card, with white and gold ornate border. circa 1890s

A German custom where walnut shells are floated in a bowl of water, either the walnut comes together or drawn to the side, according to their movements it brings good luck or ill-luck. Date: 1908

Political cartoon, On the Turn of the Card by Francis Carruthers Gould - Gladstone peers in through the door. Date: 1894

Disadvantages of a short cut. "I have kept my dear Amelia waiting a deuced long time
Disadvantages of a short cut. " I have kept my dear Amelia waiting a deuced long time! - but this short cut will soon bring me to her enchanting presence;

Comic postcard, Soldier and civilians, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Bad Luck Crest designed by fighter pilot, WW2
Bad Luck Crest, a form of modern heraldry designed by a fighter pilot who escaped from Dunkirk during WW2 Date: 1941

Design for a Christmas Good Luck card
Design for a Christmas Good Luck greetings card. Mother stirring the Christmas cake mixture while her two children watch. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Good Luck at School card design
Original Artwork - design for a Good Luck at School greetings card with a boy and a girl in new school uniform and a cat wearing a matching school tie! Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - Wishing you Luck, as the new term begins
Postcard design - Heres Wishing you Luck, as the new term begins. A schoolboy walking off for the first day at school. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, Man looking under his bed Date: 20th century

Greetings postcard, Bride and groom Date: 20th century

Good Luck postcard, Bride and groom leaving church Date: 20th century

Good Luck postcard, Little boy with horseshoe Date: 20th century

Good Luck postcard, Black cat with playing cards Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Lemons and squeezer Date: 20th century

Good Luck postcard, Black cat drinking beer Date: 20th century

"Theres nae luck about the house!"Cartoon and comment about house-building in London in
" Theres nae luck about the house!" Cartoon and comment about house-building in London in the 1850s. The houses are falling down, propped up by miserable crutches

Comic postcard, Man enjoying a glass of beer in a deckchair on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic seaside postcard, All cats are lucky Date: 20th century

Good Luck postcard, Two black cats Date: 20th century

A Run of Luck, the great sporting drama, Boston Theatre, USA, with real horses and hounds. Showing a race scene. Date: late 19th century

Comic postcard, Dog with horseshoe tied to tail - not so lucky! Date: 20th century

Good Luck postcard, Royal Irish Guards, WW1. Bonne Chance Pour Toi, Mon Garcon. Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Black cat on Good Luck card, climbing up the tablecloth Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, Two black cats on Good Luck card Date: circa 1918

Comic postcard, Scottish Soldier in the British Army, WW2 - Good luck at the front! Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, Good Luck in the Army! WW2 - a cat with rifle, bayonet and khaki cap. Date: circa 1940

Shanghai Races - statues outside the race club
Chinese racegoers lighting candles and burning incense in front of statues of the patron saints of the Hwa Hewi (Flower Society)

Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar in Pot Luck, 1922
Miss Norah Blaney and Miss Gwen Farrar in Pot Luck at the Vaudeville Theatre, 1922. Date: 1922

Christmas card, Black kitten in a sack - Best of Luck for Christmas. (front cover, 1 of 2) 20th century

Cabbage palm, Cordyline fruticosa
Cabbage palm, good luck plant, palm lily, Cordyline fruticosa (Dracaena ferrea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1819

Tango Room, Club Fortune, Reno, Nevada, USA
Tango Room, Club Fortune, East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1938

Good Luck card, Lucky Black Cat in a Boot

Daikoku is one of the Seven Gods of Luck in Japanese mythology, known as the god of wealth and guardian of farmers. He is often depicted carrying a wish-granting mallet in his hand

Scottish golf team after the Professional International 1936
Still no luck - Photo of the defeated Scottish golf team after the Professional International Golf match including Scottish James Braid (centre) 1936

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