Money Gallery

Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth

Tsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings, most often near their entrances (helping them attract wealth and prosperity to those places as well as acting as a protection to their environments and the income which comes to them). Pictured here distributing money, a Chinese custom at New Year. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

French poster, The Future Lies in Socialism

A French poster which declares that The Future Lies in Socialism, showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to the octopus monster of commercialism, foreign gold, political bargaining and prevarication. Date: 20th century

© Robert Hunt Library/Mary Evans

Bargaining, Commerce, Commercialism, Design, Economics, Economy, Equality, Facing, Fairness, Foreign, France, French, Future, Gold, Human, Ideal, Idealism, Left, Lies, Money, Monster, Octopus, Ordinary, People, Political, Politics, Poster, Prevarication, Socialism, Socialist, Wing

Official wording, Apprenticeship Indenture

Official wording of an Apprenticeship Indenture, between John Henry Watson of 3 Newland Street, Derby, and Messrs John Davis & Son (Derby) Limited. The document is signed by John Henry Watson himself (then about 17 years old), his father Walter Watson, and Henry Davis, Governing Director. The apprenticeship is for five years, dating from 25 June 1901, in the skill of instrument making. The apprentice's pay is agreed at 4 shillings and sixpence per week for the first year, rising to 6 shillings in the second year, 7/6 in the third, 9/6 in the fourth, and 12/6 in the fifth. The apprentice agrees to be obedient, not do any damage, not to take leave of absence without consent, and not to play cards, dice or other unlawful games, nor to frequent taverns or playhouses.
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3 January 1902

© Mary Evans Picture Library/GILL STOKER