Penny Collection (page 3)

Arab dance and costume, Syria. Date: 1840

Arab family, Algeria, North Africa. Date: 1840

The At-Meidan racecourse and pillars, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, with the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed in the background. Date: 1840

Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish politician and philosopher
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Anglo-Irish politician and philosopher, Whig MP from 1766 to 1794. Portrait with associated locations -- Westminster Hall set up for the trial of Warren Hastings (top)

Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, glass engraver at work
Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, Holland Street, Blackfriars, London, glass engraver at work. 1841

View of Dumbarton Castle and Rock, Scotland
View of Dumbarton Castle and Dumbarton Rock, on the River Clyde, Scotland. Date: 1841

Arabian camels, resting with their owners. Date: 1841

The Dutch Housewife, by Nicolaes Maes, in the National Gallery, London. Date: 1655

Seven different dog breeds -- North American, Australian, South American, Scotch greyhound, English greyhound, African, Tibet mastiff. Date: 1841

Southwest view of Bethlem or Bedlam Hospital and London Wall, 1814. In the 18th century, visitors paid a penny at the Penny Gate to view the inmates

Porcini mushroom, Boletus edulis, and lurid
Penny bun or porcini mushroom, Boletus edulis, and the lurid bolete, Suillellus luridus, Boletus perniciosus. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pierre after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert

King bolete mushroom, Boletus edulis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms, Harper, New York, 1895

Title page, The Penny Magazine of the SDUK, 1842
Title page, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1842. Date: 1842

Zoo Animals Up To Date on Cycles - Hippo on Penny Farthing
Zoo Animals Up To Date on Cycles - Hippo on a Penny Farthing. 1892

Experiences on an Ordinary Penny Farthing Cycle. 1892

Velocipede competition in Leipzig, Germany 1885
Scenes from a velocipede competition in Leipzig, Germany. Date: 1885

Cartoon, Pillion-bibycle 1875
An idea for the tandem, a man pedaling at the front with the woman sitting precariously at the back sidesaddle. 1875

Guy Fawkes
A man from the country with a great display of the gunpowder plotters, asking " A penny for the Guy!" at neighbouring houses. Date: circa 1850s

Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, Penny Readings. 1901

G Sheridan Knowles, Christmas Pennies

Saturn and his rings! only a penny 1856
Street telescope exhibitor in London. Attracting passers by to have a look through the telescope on a clear night for a penny. Date: 1856

Penny for the Guy
Country folk carrying the Guy, asking " A penny for the Guy!" at neighbouring houses. circa 1850s

Guy Fawkess Day
Please remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot, with verse. 1867

Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902
Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning

Top Hat
Man wearing a top hat Penny Farthing in the foreground at Country fair Gloucestershire England Date: circa 1958

Otto von Bismarck playing the penny whistle, German Emperor William I and Russian bear dancing alone to the music. Date: 1875

British coin, George VI halfpenny
British coin, a George VI halfpenny for 1952, with a ship on the reverse. Date: 1952

Half penny dinners for poor children, East London 1870
Dinners for children cost half a penny in this soup kitchen in East London. Date: 1870

Electric cab 1897
Electric cab with adverts for The Graphic, Daily Graphic and Golden Penny, advertised on the side. Date: 1897

Dodo
Woodcut based on the painting by Roelant Savery in Penny Magazine, 1833 Date: 1833

VARIOUS ENGLISH COINS
A selection of British coins, including a half crown, a sixpence and a penny. Date: 1960s

OLD ENGLISH COINS
Old (pre-Decimalisation) British coins (left to right): Top - penny, half penny, threepenny bit. Bottom - half crown, two shillings, one shilling, sixpence - heads. Date: 1960s

London Transport bus tickets -5
Original London Transport bus tickets - penny ticket on the route from Alperton to Ladbroke Grove, threepenny from Golders Green to New Cross. Date: unknown

London Transport bus ticket -4
Original London Transport bus ticket - penny ticket on the route from Harrow Weald to Scrubbs Lane. The punch-hole indicates the particular journey being made. Date: unknown

FALL / GORDON SETTER / 1981
SALTERS PENNY ROYAL AND RHOVANION ROYAL HERITAGE Owned by Summers. Date: 1981

FLOWERS, PENNY A BUNCH
Flowers, penny a bunch! A woman, balancing a basket on her head, plys her trade Date: 18th century

PENNY GAFF 1870
Audience and actors at a Penny Gaff, London Date: 1870

BALLAD SELLER / WHEATLEY
A new love song, only hapenny a piece. A ballad-seller makes a sale. Date: 1796

C16 BRITISH COINS
A selection of British coinage dating from Queen Elizabeths reign. These include a Gold Rial, Gold Angel, Crown, Shilling, Sixpence, Groat and Penny. Date: 16th Century

Electric Shocks, Epsom 1860
Shocks for fun among the sideshows at Epsom racecourse on Derby Day Date: 1860

LAVENDER SELLER
Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin lavender! Date: circa 1805

PLANTS / THLASPI ARVENAE
PENNY CRESS Date: early 20th century

Birmingham Cricket Team(s) - Carte-de-visite - note the Penny-farthing bicycles! Date: circa 1880

Man playing tin whistle, Agra, India - 1
Indian tin whistle player with a luxuriant silver beard, and wearing a deep blue turban, plays his tin whistle in Agra, India Date: 1986

Man playing tin whistle, Agra, India - 2
Indian tin whistle player with a luxuriant silver beard, and wearing a deep blue turban, plays his tin whistle in Agra, India Date: 1986

Penny-farthing rider
Nicholas Bromage, champion penny-farthing rider, Wolverhampton Date: 1987

The Profligate Punished by Neglect and Contempt
Mezzotint on laid paper, by Valentine Green after Edward Pennys The Profligate Punished by Neglect and Contempt, one of a pair, published by R. Sayer and J. Bennet in London, dated 1775. Date: 1775

The Virtuous Comforted by Sympathy and Attention
Mezzotint on laid paper by Valentine Green, after Edward Pennys The Virtuous Comforted by Sympathy and Attention, one of a pair, published by R. Sayer and J. Bennet in London, dated 1775. Date: 1775

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