Merchant Collection (page 2)

Joseph Yates Ltd - 33 Vauxhall Bridge Road
Joseph Yates Ltd - Timber Merchant - 33 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, London

The Battle of Pacocha; Action between HMS Shah and Ameth
Engraving showing the battle between HMS Shah and Amethyst and the Peruvian Ironclad turret ship Huascar on the 29th May 1877

Ships of the P&O, Cunard, Orient, Union and Guion Lines, 188
Engravings of the steamships Lusitania, Khiva, Mexican, Australia, Arizona, Zambesi, Poonah, Nepaul, Ganges, Geelong, Rosetta, Umbria and Etruria (left to right, top to bottom)

Use of the Naval Rangefinder for Merchant Navy Navigation, 1
Illustration showing how a Naval Barrster or rangefinder could be used for Merchant Navigation. In this instance the officer of the merchant ship is finding his distance from the lighthouse in order

Wine expert at Tanners Wine Merchants, Shrewsbury
A wine expert with a glass of claret in the old shop of Tanners Wine Merchants, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The company was established in 1842 by sea captain William Tanner

Quintin Hogg, English merchant and philanthropist
Quintin Hogg (1845-1903), English merchant and philanthropist. Statue erected by the Royal Polytechnic Institution to the memory of their founder, Regent Street, London

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Promotional postcard for The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; set to music by Adrian Welles Beecham. First produced at the Grand Theatre, Brighton

View across the Golden horn toward Topkapi Palace
View across the Golden Horn (with Topkapi Palace in background) looking over the done and minarets of a Constantinople Mosque

John Bews shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands
John Bew, Wholesale & Retail Tobacco & Cigar Merchant, and Ship Insurance Agent -- his shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands, with a female assistant standing in the doorway. Date: circa 1905

John Joseph Mechi
JOHN JOSEPH MECHI merchant and agriculturist Date: 1802 - 1880

Benjamin Bovill, c. 1824
Illustrated portrait of Benjamin Bovill, the English merchant, c.1824. Date: 11 October 1890

Map of London
Map, made by Pieter Vanden Keere, showing the extent of London in 1593. Around the edge of the map are the crests of twelve of the Merchant Guilds

Merchant ship
A merchant ship carrying Australian apples and pears

Artificial Respiration being Applied by British Sailors
A service in which the dictates of humanity over-rule all antagonism towards the rescued enemy: artificial respiration being applied by British soldiers

Lipton / Sir Thomas / Vf 01
J Reid Walker wears a ? Homburg hat, wing collar & red tie, black waistcoat & lounging jacket, grey herringbone tweed trousers with turn-ups & a front crease Date: 1909

Colquhoun / Freeman
PATRICK COLQUHOUN Police magistrate, Scottish merchant and reformer, founder of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce in 1783

Nathaniel Bentley
NATHANIEL BENTLEY : hardware merchant of Leadenhall Street, London; after his fiancee died on their wedding eve, he neglected his appearance, earning the name Dirty Dick

Samuel Montagu
SAMUEL MONTAGU (born Montagu Samuel) first baron Swaythling Jewish merchant banker in London, statesman (MP for Whitechapel) philanthropist, promoted metric system etc

German U-Boats
Terrified by German U-boats, the English pretend to be neutral (the Norwegian and British merchant navy flags are conveniently similar !)

Whittington (Benoist)
SIR RICHARD (DICK) WHITTINGTON Merchant, Lord Mayor of London and cat-lover

Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander Henderson
Cartoon, Mr Louis Engel (musician and music critic) and Mr Alexander Henderson (theatre owner and director) - I ll have my bond! (A reference to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.) 1885

Portraits of different Indian castes: Brahmins 1, 2, Kshatriyas or Khatri, Punjabi mercantile caste 3, 4, Vaisyas 5, 6, Sudras 7, 8, Hindus of upper India 9, 10, and Mughals 11, 12

DUTCH MERCHANT VESSELS
Dutch West Indies Merchant Vessels. Date: early 17th century

Jeweller and Antique Silver Dealer - Arthur & Co. 36 New Bond Street, London. Now Delvaux - a high end handbag shop, thankfully retaining many of the period frontage feature depicted here. Date: 1906

Front cover of Beehive knitting pattern booklet for men's socks, hats, balaclavas etc, for Royal Navy and Merchant Navy sailors and for the Army Date: 1918

Change of Wind: Merchant Men Making For London

A British hospital ship during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Tea Merchant in China early 1900s

Building Liberty Ships in the USA

Collection of ocean liner books
OCEAN LINERS: Good collection of liner books including Union Castle Chronicle, Normandie Her Life and Times, Titanic and The Californian, etc

MV Royal Daffodil, Eagle Steamer
M.V Royal Daffodil Eagle Steamer, WW2 service including Operation Dynamo, Dunkirk evacuation

Dick Whittington and His Cat, pantomime - six scenes

House of a wealthy merchant, Amritsar, India, early 1900s

Seed and corn merchant, Uxbridge, early 1900s

Union-Castle Line MV Dunnottar Castle, Southampton
Union-Castle Line Merchant Vessel Dunnottar Castle steam passenger ship, to South and East Africa Date: 1950

WW2 - Minesweeper Otter Float
A photograph which shows some WW2 merchant seamen deploying an otter float upon a minesweeper. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Barrage Barge
A photograph of a British WW2 barrage barge hauling down her balloon. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Merchant Seamen
A photograph showing a crew of British WW2 merchant seamen, with smoke trails in the background, indicating an enemy raider being shot down. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Merchant Mine Disposal
A pair of photographs which show British WW2 merchant seamen spotting, and then disposing of an enemy sea mine. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Minesweeper Apparatus
A photograph depicting some British WW2 merchant seamen lowering some sweeping apparatus from the deck of a minesweeper to sea, by crane. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - HMS Rawalpindi
A photograph of HMS Rawalpindi, a British armed merchant cruiser which was sunk in action fighting German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during WW2. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Merchant Service Food Import
A photograph showing a group of British WW2 merchant workers loading a cart with food supplies. Date: circa 1942

WW2 - The Merchant Service Fights Back
An illustrated front cover for an educational WW2 children's book, The Merchant Service Fights Back, told by Wilson Macarthur

WW2 - View Of A Merchant Ship
A photograph of a merchant ship seen from above, with an emphibious plane in the foreground, relative to a true to life novel, Seven Pilots written by Charles Patrick Ranke Graves. Date: 1942

WW2 - North Sea Spy
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, North Sea Spy, written by Frank Elias. The image shows some Merchant Navy crew gesturing towards a large ship. Date: circa 1940s

Arab Bazar, Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa. Also pictured on image 13924865. Date: circa 1909

Tunisia, North Africa - A Perfume merchant. Date: circa 1908

Tunisia, North Africa - the interior of an Arab shop specialising in ornate furniture, traditional crafts and decorative items. Date: circa 1930s

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