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Advert for J. C Vickery wind screen for match box 1914Electro-plated or polished lacquered brass, easy to use works in the must strongest winds patent match box screen. Flat silver pocket flask. 1914
Corner of Tottenham Court Road, London - Horse BusesA fantastic postcard image showing traffic on the corner of Tottenham Court Road, London - a number of Horse Buses make the (undoubtedly rather bumpy) turn! Date: circa 1903
Old Swedish Matchbox label with Chinese writing and a Royal Crest possibly made for Kwong Tuck Yee and the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s
Old Swedish Matchbox label for the Malaysian marketOld Swedish Matchbox label with flags for the Malaysian market for Cheng Chan and Co in Penang made without phospherous Date: c. 1910s
Old Japanese Matchbox label with Whooping Cranes made in Osaka in Japan Date: c. 1910s
Greetings card in the shape of a box of matchesGreetings card in the shape of a box of Bryant & May special safety matches. Date: circa 1890s
Health, Wealth and All Prosperity. The scene of a fun evening - pipes, cigarettes and cigars have been smoked, cards have been played and ale and whiskey have been drunk! Date: circa 1909
A young bellboy lights up his Gitanes Cigarette on this charming Trade Card designed by Rene Vincent. Date: 1934
Frogs with pipes on a cutout New Year cardFrogs with pipes, a cigar, a cigarette, an ashtray and a box of matches on a cutout New Year card. circa 1890s
Patient in Bed 29 Quex Park VAD HospitalPhotograph of a patient (name unkown) in Bed 29 in C Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital during the First World War. The man has suffered a severe wound to his right hand or arm
Patriotism / Matchbox 1928Where was your box of matches made? Is it British? Buy British goods and Keep Britain Busy. Date: 1928
Sport / Football / SpecificASTON VILLA Vs EVERTON Semi Final replay, Aston Villa win by 2-1. Date: 1905
Christmas card with cigar and box of matchesChristmas card with a cigar in a holder and a box of matches. Date: circa 1890s
Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks outCartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918
Bath Characters by EdouartAnn Arter, a fruit woman of bath (left) and Elizabeth Smith, 63 years of age, Scotch woman, soldiers widow. Sold matches for forty years
Suffragette Votes for Women Match HolderA ceramic figure of an Old Maid suffragette painted in the colours of the W.S.P.U. She wears a Votes for Women sash and a rather sour expression. Below is the caption, A Match for Any Man
Munitions Workers WW1. Man and woman workers in Munitions factory, captioned, The only kind of matches allowed in a munition factory. Referring to safety notice on wall. Date: circa 1916
Fire safety for children -- a boy and girl playing near a wrecked car. The boy is about to strike a match near the open fuel cap
Schoolgirl cricket players, WW1Girls at a school in Scotland playing cricket during the First World War. The Tatler suggests they are ladies we expect to see at Lords in the coming days of sex equality. Date: 1915
Scout producing fire, AustraliaA scout producing fire without matches or flint in New South Wales, Australia
Cigarette box in the form of a tank, WW1Cigarette box in the form of a tank, the sponsons to carry cigarettes and the turret to contain a box of matches. Trench Art
Sketch cover, Georges Carpentier & Gunboat Smith, 1914Front cover of the Sketch magazine featuring a photograph of the much-publicised boxing match at Olympia between the Frenchman
Girl in fancy dress, Camborne, CornwallGirl in fancy dress for a carnival at Camborne, Cornwall, dressed in a matchbox costume with no more strikes written, punningly, on the side
Lord Roberts funeral and football in war, WW1A Voice That is Still, And Ears Which Are Still Deaf. A page in the Tatler criticising the continued attendance at football matches of thousands of young
Captain Leslie Cheape playing polo against America, 1914Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player pictured playing his part in the England victory over America in the International
Tennis and flirting, 1916Illustration by Annie Fish to accompany the Tatlers gossip column, The Letters of Eve, showing a lady arriving on a tennis court fully garbed and ready for a game
Englands victory over America in polo, 1914Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting the famous victory of the British polo team over the Americans at Meadowbrook in the International Polo Trophy - also known as the Westchester Cup
Davis Cup doubles match, Wildings lastThe last competitive lawn tennis match played by Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and four times Wimbledon Champion (1910-1913)
Anthony Wilding at Wimbledon in 1913Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand born tennis player and Wimbledon champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 pictured playing on court and defeating M. E
Anthony Wilding playing tennis at CannesCaptain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand tennis player pictured playing a game on the Cannes Club Courts in 1911. Won Wimbledon four times in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913
Match box with wind screen, World War OneA combined silver match box and wind screen, a novelty but nevertheless extremely useful to men at the front and available from Charles Packer and Co of Regent Street, London
The new game of push ballA new game introduced from America played at Headingley, Leeds, involving the pushing and rolling of a huge ball measuring 18 feet in circumference and with rules similar to football
Davis Cup PlayersThe Davis Cup Tennis Tournament in Paris, France : (left to right) : John VAN RYN Wilmer ALLISON, Jean BOROTRA, and Henri COCHET. Date: late 1920s
Russian itinerant street peddlar / vendor. Date: 1902
Hennen & Wadhams marriage Feb 1911
Pixies dancing
Valentines Postcard - Matchless ValentineCupid strikes a match of love, casting his spell on two sweethearts... Though you may set these all alight, My heart is safe you know; For that has been aflame for you Sweetheart, long long ago
Still life. Tobacco, pipe & matchesFrom a magazine illustration 1929
Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street
Art Deco Cigarette CaseA stylish Art Deco cigarette case, with an ash tray and a box of matches beside it. Date: 1930s
Brighton Bowls 1950SIs there anything so restful as a game of bowls on a beautiful day? Several matches in progress in Brighton. Date: 1950s
1905 CUP FINAL - 2THE F.A. CUP FINAL at Crystal Palace - Aston Villa defeat Newcastle United by 2 goals to none - action at the goal mouth Date: 1905
Matchmakers filling frames with wax strandsWomen working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands
Lenglen, Borotra and Lacoste playing doublesTwo pictures showing French pairs playing doubles at Wimbledon in 1925. On the left is a sartorial duo; Suzanne Lenglen in her bandeau stretching for a smash, while her partner Jean Borotra
Sketches at Wimbledon 1879Sketches at the Championship lawn tennis match, Wimbledon by Harry Furniss. Vignettes of the final round of the tennis matches and the attending spectators
Lawn Tennis Championship matches at WimbledonVignettes showing scenes at Wimbledon in 1887, including several of the fifteen year old Miss Lottie Dod serving the ball in the year she first won the Championship
Various Titanic itemsVarious items from RMS Titanic, namely receipts for meals and typing, a headed letter card, a restaurant card, and a box of matches