Packet Collection (page 7)

Vintage seed packet: Calendula
A beautiful Calendula seed packet from the Burts Seeds Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage sweetcorn seed packet
A sweetcorn seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage red onion seed packet
A red onion seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage seed packet: Dwarf Nasturtium
A beautiful Dwarf Nasturtium seed packet from the Burts Seeds Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Toddler playing with car tyre, Balham, SW London
A toddler playing with a car tyre (attached to a parked car) in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Steam Packets off Margate 1821
Published Sept 5th 1821 by John Hudson, 86, Cheapside Main inscription: To His Most Gracious Majesty KING GEORGE THE FOURTH The Illustrious Patron of Steam Packets

Scouts with Coronation programmes
Two Scouts with supplies of Coronation programmes and collection tins at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953

Playing card reverse - advertising for Craven A cigarettes, featuring a stylish woman in 1920s costume with red cloche hat and fur-trimmed overcoat. Date: circa 1920s

Duty-free Cigarettes and Alcohol - Norway
Two women and a man pose on the deck of a Norwegian ferry boat wit their duty free spirits and cigarettes. Following WW2 there was still considerable rationing of food and drink in the UK

Track-gear nose landing gear of the Fairchild EC-82A Packet
Close-up of the track-gear nose landing gear of the Fairchild EC-82A Packet

Fairchild EC-82A Packet, 45-57746, fitted with track-gear landing gear

Fairchild C-82 Packet towing a CG-15 and CG-4A glider at Greenville (SC) Army Air Base

Fairchild XC-82 Packet 43-13202
Fairchild XC-82 Packet, 43-13202

Fairchild C-82 Packet

Fairchild C-82A Packet 44-23004
Fairchild C-82A Packet, 44-23004

Fairchild C-82A Packet 44-22962
Fairchild C-82A Packet, 44-22962

Teloschistes chrysopthalmus, lichen
Lichen shown in its herbarium packet from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Some lichens look virtually the same as dried specimens as in the field

Cigarette showcard, a woman selling packets of straight cut cigarettes and Dubec Turkish cigarettes Date: 19th century

Pearlings Victoria Cigarettes
Pearling and Co. Victoria cigarettes, 1909 1909

Buffalo & Chicago steam packet empire state: M. Hazard, Commander. Date between 1835 and 1856. Buffalo & Chicago steam packet empire state: M. Hazard, Commander. Date between 1835 and 1856

High pressure steamboat Mayflower first class packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River - Capt. Joseph Brown. Date c1855

Packet boat leaving Joinville Quay, Trouville, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

London Bridge steam wharf
Steam packet wharf at London Bridge on the River Thames. London Bridge wharf is the main point for the Herne Bay and Margate steam boats. Date: 1844

Advertisement for Du Maurier cigarettes, filtered for flavour -- the cigarette with the exclusive filter. Showing an elegant woman in black and white, with an open packet of cigarettes in colour

Alexandria, Egypt - Steam Packet Docks Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Craven Cigarettes
Craven A cigarettes - quality never varies they re always smooth and fresh! Date: 1937

Advert for Leichners slim figure bath 1928
Keep slim and fit. Safe, simple and convenient reduction in weight - better health - a clearer skin - all yours bedtime bath a packet of new and wonderful Leichners slim figure bath No.1001

RMSP Alcantara, armed merchant cruiser, WW1
RMSP (Royal Mail Steam Packet) Alcantara, a merchant cruiser which was turned into an armed ship during the First World War

RMSPC Pier, Barbardos
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Pier, Bridgetown, Barbados Date: circa 1910s

Packet for Balloon Post
An actual envelope for a letter sent by balloon post out of Paris during the Siege. The letters were limited to a weight of 4 grams ! Date: 1870

Buffalo Puppy Cakes Ad
Two puppies climb over a packet of Clarks Buffalo puppy cakes Date: 1890s

Russian Cruiser WWI
Russian Cruiser Askold which was nicknamed a Packet of Woodbines, on account of its five funnels, in service during World War I

Tunis, Tunisia - arrival of the Carthage
The Packet Boat Carthage arriving in Tunis, Tunisia

Poster advertising Edwards desiccated soups, full of nourishing vegetables

Belgium - Port of Ostende
Port of Ostende, Belgium. The mailship ferry departs the harbour as young boys fish off the pier, while others just lean on the railings watching the ships disappear into the North Sea

The Terraces - Monte Carlo with departing Steam Packet

Poster advertising Norway via Royal Mail
Poster for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, advertising trips to Norway and northern capitals. Luxury cruises on the SS Arcadian

Royal Mail Atlantis Cruises poster
Poster advertising a cruise on the RMSP Atlantis with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, featuring a smiling young woman in what looks like a North African location, carrying a water urn

Coaling a Royal Mail steam packet at Kingston, Jamaica
Scene at the harbour in Kingston, Jamaica, showing lines a women carrying baskets of coal on their heads on board a Royal Mail steam packet ship

Cigarette Paper Wrapper
Splendid wrapper for a packet of Zig-Zag cigarette papers, winner of many gold medals

SS Ireland, 1885
Engraving of the City of Dubin Steam-Packet Companys Mail Paddle Steamship Ireland, shortly after its launch, 1885. This ship, built in the Laird Shipyard at Birkenhead

SS Great Western in a Heavy Gale, North Atlantic, 1846
Engraving showing the Steamship Great Western being struck amidships in a gale during a crossing from Liverpool to New York in 1846

RMS Forth, 1849
Engraving of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Companys paddle-steamer Forth. Built in Leith in 1841, the Forth went missing between Southampton and the West Indies early in 1841

Corsica Bastia
The Mediterranean can get surprisingly rough : the packet-boat La Louise is wrecked at the entrance to the harbour of Bastia, in northeastern Corsica

A Bath-room on the R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of a bathroom aboard Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

The Childrens Playroom, R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of the Childrens Playroom aboard Royal Mail Steam Packet Companys Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

NORMANDIE
Surcouf is the worlds largest submarine before World War Two, with a range of 19, 000 km and carries 80 days stores for long trips away from base. She will be lost in 1942

Steamship Arcadian
passenger liner of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company

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