Offer Collection

Carbolic Smoke Ball / 1893
Advertisement for The Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. which claimed to offer a cure for a wide variety of ailments. This led to a court case on grounds of deception & a landmark ruling

In the Famous Plug Street Wood by Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres. The scarred trees lining the soldiers route bear the scars of shelling

Tibetan tanka with an illustration of a relaxed Avalokite?vara. Tibetan art. FRANCE. Paris. Guimet Museum

Body Culture / Building
Charles Atlass body-building programme: " No other physical instructor in the world has ever dared to make such an offer!" Date: 1932

Charity Bootblacks
To raise money for hospitals, English girls offer their services as shoeblacks to passing gentlemen in the streets of London

Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. E
Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. Limestone. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. C. 1400-1365 BC. Origin unknown. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Prince George of Wales and the Edinburgh family
Prince George of Wales (1865-1936), later King George V (pictured centre) with his cousins, the children of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg

Litesome Body Belt
Advert for the Litesome Body Belt, underpants devised to offer support and relief while hiking miles " without exhaustion". " Every man should wear one constantly"

Archduke Maximilian receives the Mexican delegation
The reception of the Mexican delegation by Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian at Miramar castle, off the coast of Italy. The head of the delegation holds out a letter from Gutierrez de Estrada

The Knights Esclabor and Arphasar offer their

Spring Blossoms on Sale
Two pretty & fashionable German flower girls offer ready-made bouquets from their stall

Field Gun outside the TJaegershof Restaurant
The restaurant has a small but interesting museum which is concerned with the activities nearby, including the St Sixtus Abbey

Champion (Scissors) Ltd, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Champion (Scissors) Ltd, Champion Works, Petre Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire -- Rebuilding British Kitchens. Offer of Kumfi-Kut kitchen scissors when limited supplies permit, in a postwar letter

Altar of Incense
Incense offering in Judaism was related to perfumed offerings on the altar of incense during the Tabernacle and the First and Second Temple period

Cover design, Do it yourself, March 1967 - attack that damp at half the cost Date: 1967

The Deck Chair
An oil painting of a young woman reclined on a deck chair, holding a parasol to offer a bit of shade from the bright sun, which brightly lights up a picturesque countryside. Date: circa 1918

Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic
Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition - important archive of 52 negatives taken by Lt. Henry Birdie Bowers during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition that claimed the lives of Scott

The Conquest of Mexico (1519-21). Hernan Cortes in Zempuala
The Conquest of Mexico (1519-1521). Hernan Cortes in Zempuala, welcomed by the Cacique Gordo (Chief Gordo). Detail. Table belonging to a set of 6 made with the enconchado technique. Anonymous author

Indasia Advertisement
Advertisement for Indasia Eastern Perfume. The subtle fragrance of the East is harmonised in INDASIA Eastern Perfume. The illustration shows a woman with a magnifying glass

Book of the Dead. Tomb of Kha. Egypt
Egypt. Book of the Dead. From the tomb of royal architect Kha (Deir el-Medina). 1400 BC. 18th dynasty. New Kingdom. Egyptian Museum. Turin. Italy

Stele of Itenhab. C. 1877-1870 BC. Egypt
Stele of Itenhab who is seated at an offering table. Opposite her is her son with an older woman, probably the son's nurse. Limestone. Middle Kingdom. Reign of Sesotris II. C.1877-1870 BC

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Students demonstrating over grant offer
Students demonstrating over a 4% grant offer, in the days when students were awarded grants rather than loans. More than 75

SIERRA LEONE UNDERTAKERS
Black humour : The premises of Bungie the undertaker, Sierra Leone, Africa. He is as ready to offer good advice to the living as he is to provide for the needs of the dead! Date: 1930s

Japan Soul Festival Religion 1737 Souls Japanese
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THE MAGIC CUP
When the Little Folk offer you a MAGIC CUP, beware ! It may contain Love, or Sleep, or Oblivion, or even Death : but it is unlikely to be dietary, and certainly not organic

LYING IN STATE, ENGLAND
A dead person's shrouded corpse lies open for all to see, while servants offer food and drink to sustain the grieving mourners Date: 1737

During the Siege of Calais by Edward III, six burghers offer themselves as ransom for their fellow-citizens : his wife Philippa intercedes, and their lives are spared Date: 1346/1347

Tarpeia crushed to death by the Sabines
The legendary Tarpeia, having offered to betray Rome to the Sabines in return for gold, is crushed to death by their shields and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock. Date: 747 BC

Comic postcard, Woman offers man a drink Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Large woman at the seaside - bath chairs for hire Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman hanging off a cliff Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman in solicitors office Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman offers bathing dress Date: early 20th century

Melon sellers, Egypt
Melon sellers near the Suez Canal in Egypt offer up their wares. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, offer from a photographer Date: 20th century

Scenes from the islands of West Africa, 1820
Christopher Columbus in the Azores looking toward America 28, birds in the Canary Islands 29, and Napoleon Bonapartes prison Longwood House on St. Helena 30

Roman noblemen in laurel wreaths and toga at a sacrificial rite. The lack of beards dates the scene to Hadrians or Neros reign. Pompa Sacra. From a bas-relief in the Pio Clementino Museum

Representation of Charity - Money for a poor crippled boy
A moral postcard depicting Charity as two smartly-dressed young girls offer some coins to a poor, crippled young boy with crutches, sat at the side of the street. Date: 1909

Silhouette, Offering a Peach in the Hothouse. late 19th century

Young lady giving one hand in a minuet, 18th century. Copperplate engraving from The Polite Academy, or Instructions for a Genteel Behaviour and Polite Address in Masters and Misses, R

Bacchic initiation rites
Bacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings)

Recruitment poster, Offer Your Services Now, WW1
Recruitment poster, Offer Your Services Now, Our brave soldiers at the Front need your help. 1914

Tables of Shewbread
Shewbread or showbread are the cakes or loaves of bread which were always present on a specially dedicated table, in the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering to God. Date: circa 1880s

Fruitseller - Boy with fruit in his cart comes to the front door to offer fruit to his young friends. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930

A scene from David Copperfield
Charles Dickenss character, David Copperfield in the Old Coaching Inn at Yarmouth whilst on his memorable journey to Salem House School

Outside the Old Vic 1870
Prostitutes offer their services outside the Old Victoria Theatre, in the New Cut, London. Date: 1870

INDIAN GIRLS WITH JUGS
Two Indian girls, fetching water from the fountain, attract the attention of a young man though I dont think hes going to offer to help. Date: 19th century

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