Luck Collection (page 5)

Slate with pen and comic greeting on a Christmas card -- May you never have to chalk it up! Date: early 20th century

Puppy with barrel on a German Good Luck card
Little white puppy with a barrel on a German Good Luck card. Date: circa 1890s

Puppy with horseshoe on a Christmas card
Puppy with a horseshoe on a Good Luck and Merry Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two pigs on a Good Luck card, one of them smoking a pipe. Date: circa 1890s

Snowman and woman on a Christmas postcard
Snowman with a woman sitting on his knee on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Bluebird and horseshoe on a Good Luck New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Good Luck greetings card with playing cards. Date: circa 1890s

The Opening Bar by Blam New Year celebrations
Vivid illustration celebrating with entertainers celebrating and wishing good luck for the New Year of 1926. Date: 1926

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a vase with a blue and white oriental design, containing four spills with seasonal greetings written on them. Date: circa 1890s

Three frogs and rocking horse on a cutout card
Three frogs dressed as clowns on a rocking horse on a cutout greetings card. circa 1890s

Seascape and flowers on a Scandinavian greetings card
Seascape with a ship in moonlight and floral decoration on a Scandinavian greetings card with fretwork edging -- Hearty Congratulations. Date: circa 1890s

Children and dog on a cutout German greetings card
Children and large dog on a cutout German greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Doves in snow on a German greetings card
Doves in the snow on a German greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl with flowers on a German greetings card
Boy and girl in a garden with a large basket of flowers on a German greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Doves and flowers on a German greetings card
Doves, dovecot and flowers on a German greetings card, with verse. Date: circa 1890s

Spray of flowers on a German greetings card with gothic style lettering. circa 1890s

Superstition / Throw Salt
If you spill some salt you must throw it over your left shoulder or else you will have bad luck Date: 1960s

Enlisting / Comic Postcard
A comic postcard on the subject of recruitment; the boys in uniform seem to have much more luck with the girls! Date: 1914

Bret Harte (Vanity Fair)
BRET HARTE American author, noted for The luck of Roaring Camp Date: 1836 - 1902

Fortuna (Pannemaker)
The Roman goddess of luck, emptying a purse full of coins on the world as she flies above it

Fortuna (Tooke)
The Roman goddess of luck, holding a cornucopia full of nice things, and a strange instrument

Folklore / Ring
POLYCRATES, TYRANT OF SAMOS throws a precious ring into the sea, to ward off ill luck, but a fisherman finds it and brings it to him - and soon Polycrates is murdered... Date: circa 515 BC

Bret Harte / Photo
BRET HARTE American writer ( The Luck of Roaring Camp etc.) Date: 1836 - 1902

Advert for John Bennett jewellers, novelty jewellery 1905
A seletion novelty animal style charms, scarf pins and brooches by John Bennett, jewellers, Cheapside. 1905

Good Luck card with pipe and playing cards. Date: circa 1890s

Good Luck card in the shape of a cigar. Date: circa 1890s

Leap-Year Monster
In Berry, central France, there is a monster who you should try not to see during Leap Year - for if you do, its sure to bring you bad luck Date: 1855

Two black cats for Good Luck - WW1 era postcard Date: 1917

The Luck of the Navy by Clifford Mills
Promotional postcard for The Luck of the Navy by Mrs Clifford Mills. First produced at Bournemouth, 1st August and then to Queens Theatre, 5th August 1918

The Luck of the Lansbergs
Promotional postcard for The Luck of the Lansbergs at the Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich Date: circa 1920

Two black cats made of felt, one with a blue bow, the other with a pink bow. Date: early 20th century

Dog with horseshoe and rose on a Good Luck card
Dog with a horseshoe and a pink rose on a Good Luck card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink and white flowers on a birthday card
Pink daisies and white snowdrops in a horseshoe shape on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Flowers in horseshoe shape on a French greetings card
Flowers and buds in a horseshoe shape on a French greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

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

Four boys pillow fighting on a Good Luck card. 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

Christmas and New Year telegram addressed to Sallie, with a greetings verse. 1890

Christmas cheque from the Greeting Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, for ten thousand kind greetings. Date: circa 1900s

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Good Cheer, Pudding Lane Branch, with five thousand welcomes to Newport from Thomas Howells to Mrs Box. Date: 1888

Cheque from the Christmas Bank of Prosperity, to Mr and Mrs Hancock from R and L Gunning. Date: 1934

Dog with horseshoe and holly on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Stork with basket on an audible good luck card (German). Date: circa 1890s

Robins on a horseshoe on a New Year card
Robins on a horseshoe with rural snow scene on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Six cats on a horseshoe on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

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

Cinderella at her wedding. Cinderella & the Prince at their wedding. Perraults fairy tale. Advertising illustration. C Luck, Colberg.Date: circa 1905

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