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Rice Merchant and Money Lender - Sri Lanka - A Chettiar. The white horizontal lines adorning his body identify him as a follower of the Hindu God Shiva. Date: circa 1920s
Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers 1893An assortment of elegant and inexpensive novelty Victorian jewellery. Special old gold and silver and precious stones taken in exchange or bought for cash
USA - The New York Cotton Exchange - Cotton Exchange. New York. The New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE) was a commodities exchange founded in 1870 by a group of one hundred cotton brokers
Wheel of Fortune. Miniature, 15th century. FranceWheel of Fortune or Rota Fortuane. Concept in medieval and anceint philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate. Miniature, 15th century. France
Latvia. Riga. House of the Blackheads (Melngalvju nams). Erected in 14th century for the Brotherhood of Blackheads, a guild for unmarried German merchants in Riga
Jakob Fugger (Jakob I)JAKOB FUGGER (JAKOB I) German founder of the Fugger firm (financiers and merchants in Augsburg, Germany). Date: ? - 1469
William N. Froy & Sons - exterior factoryExterior of William Nathaniel Froy & Sons, in Hammersmith, London West. Builders merchant, manufacturing and selling fittings, including taps, baths, stoves and glass. Date: 19th century
Vitramant Coloured Pedestal Lavatory (washbasin) finished in black enamel. Date: circa 1920s
Standard Sanitary Appliances suite in Rose de Barry pink. Date: circa 1920s
Vitromant Coloured pedestal Lavatory (Wash Basin)Vitromant Coloured pedestal Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) in pink enamel with chromium plated fittings. Date: circa 1920s
Kosovo - Street Market at PristinaStreet Market at Pristina (Prishtina), the capital and largest city of Kosovo. Date: circa 1906
Wood Market - Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa - a scarce commodity in the arid desert landscape of Central Mali. Date: circa 1910s
Grotesque Fish Merchants - AlgeriaGrotesque Fish Merchants, shouting their wares up to the houses - Algeria. Date: circa 1903
Street scene, Pilot Point, Texas, USA, with Farmers & Merchants Bank and various shops. Date: circa 1910
North Cape farmstead, Norway, with farming people and merchants with their ponies. One man is holding a long trumpet. Date: circa 1900
Bazaar in Cairo, EgyptView into a bazaar with various stalls and shops in Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1910
Merchants sell Mother-of-Pearl necklaces - Bethlehem, Israel. Date: circa 1910s
Advert for Coronation jewellery 1902Advertisement for the snappily named The Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers & Silversmiths of Trafalgar Square, London featuring a number of different novelty Coronation-themed pieces of
Itinerant street Merchants in Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1902
Godfrey Baring MP (for the Isle of Wight)A sgned postcard portrait Sir Godfrey Baring, 1st Baronet (18711957) - Liberal Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight and later Barnstaple
General view of Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South AfricaGeneral view of Krugersdorp, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: 1909
Transporting cheeses - Alkmaar, the NetherlandsTransporting round Edam cheeses at Alkmaar - a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Alkmaar is famed for its traditional cheese market. circa 1910s
Meat market, GhardaiaCustomers and merchants exchange money and goods at the meat market in Ghardaia. Animal carcasses line the walls and a young merchant boy looks straight into the lens of the camera. Date: circa 1910s
Merchant selling melons and watermelons, GhardaiaCustomers look at the stall of a merchant selling melons and watermelons on a street in Ghardaia. Date: circa 1910s
Grocery shop and general storeA Evans & Co. - merchants, general stores, grocer s. The grocer stands in the doorway of the shop, while signs proclaim, " large supply of fine eggs, fresh from the farm"
Weighing round Edam cheeses at Alkmaar - The NetherlandsWeighing round Edam cheeses at Alkmaar - a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Alkmaar is famed for its traditional cheese market. circa 1910s
Bergen, Norway - Bryggen (Tyskebryggen - German Wharf). Date: circa 1905
Overworked Clerk - Finished for the Day (4pm)The Overworked (!) Clerk - Finished for the Day (at 4pm!). Date: 1906
Ancient Art. Anatolia Peninsula. Turkey. Ritual vessel shapeAncient Art. Anatolia Peninsula. Turkey. Between 2000-1750 BC Mesopotamian Assyrian merchants established trading colonies in Anatolia. The center was Kanesh Kharum. Ritual vessel shape of a lion
Book of accountsAccounts between merchants. Trial of Antoni Pla. Book. 1499. Diocesan Archive of Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain
Ledger. Bills of exchangeAcceptance of bills of exchange among merchants of Barcelona and Florence. 1411. Ledger. Diocesan Archive. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain
Jesus expel the merchants from the Temple. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy
Myanmar - Yangon - Rangoon Rice Merchants (Group photograph). The European merchant on the right appears to have been slotted into the shot
Bronze Statue of Ii Naosuke - Hikone Castle grounds, JapanHikone Castle grounds, Shiga Prefecture, Japan - Bronze Statue of Ii Naosuke (1815-1860) - daimyo of Hikone (18501860) and also Tairo of Tokugawa Shogunate
Merchants & Noble 1350SMerchants: hood, long cote- hardie, gipon, piked shoes, cape, front buttoning super- tunic, girdle with pouch, dagger & rosary. Nobleman: gipon, knightly-girdle, mantle Date: 1350s
Racial / Pakistan 1984A group of street merchants (men and boys) on the main street at Noshki, West Pakistan. Date: 1984
Cov. Garden BreakfastAt Covent Garden, a breakfast stall for the market porters and merchants - pies and oysters, coffee enjoyed beneath the flaring oil torches. Date: 1870
Merchant Checks GoodsA British merchant supervises a stock take of goods while his assistant jots down the details in a ledger with a quill pen. Date: 1827
Hans Jakob Fugger / FurHANS JAKOB FUGGER Member of the famous German family of financiers and merchants. Bavarian chancellor; art patron and family chronicler. Date: 1516 - 1575
Lloyds Merchants RoomLLOYDS - scene in the Merchants Room as members discuss the news from the Crimea War Date: 1854
Two Chinese merchants, and merchants wifeTwo Chinese merchants, one in summer dress, the other in winter dress, and a merchants wife. Date: circa 1770
Ceremonial Calls, ChinaCHINESE NEW YEAR Merchants exchanging ceremonial calls Date: 1881
Drapers shop, c. 1810A drapers shop, c.1810 Date: C.1810
Firefighters in action at a fire in a merchants yard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
Armitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Armitage Green BasinArmitage Coloured (Mottle) Ware - Armitage Green Wash Basin (sink). Date: circa 1920s
Vitromant Coloured Water Closet (toilet)Vitromant Coloured Water Closet Suite (toilet) - finished in fetching pink enamel with a polished mahogany seat. Date: circa 1920s
The Senlac Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin) Suite in Dove Tigrato, Veneto Crocicohio or Cippolino Versilla. Date: circa 1920s
Standard Sanitary Appliances suite in Claire de Lune Blue. Date: circa 1920s