Penny Collection (page 6)

British coin, George VI threepenny bit
British coin, a George VI threepenny bit. Date: 1943

Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits are sold
Sold Again! -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits are sold for a penny each, although their mother had told them that they were worth their weight in gold. Date: 1912

British coins, two Queen Victoria pennies for 1890 and 1891. With Britannia on the reverse. Date: 1890-1891

British coin, Queen Victoria halfpenny
British coin, a Queen Victoria halfpenny for 1862. With Britannia on the reverse, with a lighthouse and a ship in the background. Date: 1862

British coin, George V halfpenny
British coin, a George V halfpenny for 1915, with Britannia on the reverse. Date: 1915

British coin, Edward VII farthing
British coin, an Edward VII farthing (a quarter of a penny) for 1909, with Britannia on the reverse. Date: 1909

British coins, three George V farthings (a quarter of a penny) for 1918, 1930 and 1932, with Britannia on the reverse. Date: 1918-1932

British coins, two Queen Victoria farthings (a quarter of a penny) for 1860 and 1868. With Britannia on the reverse, with a lighthouse and a ship in the background. Date: 1860s

British coin, George VI farthing
British coin, a George VI farthing (a quarter of a penny). Date: 1941

British coin, George V silver three penny bit
British coin, a George V silver threepenny bit, minted during the First World War. 1917

British coin, George III copper penny
British coin, copper penny, with a profile of King George III on the head and Britannia on the reverse. Date: 1797

British coins, three George V pennies for 1914, 1917 and 1919, with Britannia on the reverse. Date: 1914-1919

British coins, three Edward VII pennies for 1905, 1906 and 1907, with Britannia on the reverse. Date: 1905-1907

Children on a fairground ride costing one penny

A penny dinner for board school children
Children in a board school have dinner for a penny. Date: 14 March 1885

WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with alternative transport. Comic postcard from wartime England by Evelyn E Morris, showing alternative forms of transport available if the petrol pumps ran dry

WWII - General Lord Gort - Patriotic Postcard sold in aid of the Daily Sketch War Relief Fund, with one penny from every card sold being donated to the fund

Young Boy with a Penny Farthing Bicycle
Studio photograph of a small young boy with a large penny farthing bicycle. Date: circa 1890s

Sopwith Aviation Drawing Office 1914-1915. From left: Comfort, Williams, Bewsher, Ashfield, Pare, Cowlin, Penny, Shaw, Freelove, Smith and Nordun. Date: circa 1915

WWI Poster, Appeal to Women
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, An Appeal to Women, Make every Penny do the work of Two, Put your Savings in the War Loan. Date: circa 1916

Various manufactories, Birmingham: Osler glass works; Taylor & Co pin & wire works; Elkington electro-plate works; and Penny & Co steel pen works

Tunstead and Happing Corporation Penny Token

Ballooning celebration for Queen Victorias birthday
Front page of The Penny Satirist - A cheap substitute for a weekly Newspaper. Showing a large image of the Montgolfier balloon ascending from the Surrey Zoological Gardens with about ten people in

Balloons and parachutes
Full front page from The Penny Dispatch, giving five images of balloons and parachutes. Top left: the Royal Nassau Balloon, first ascent

Athletic sports. Date c1887 July 12

Man looking through penny peep show, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Date 1938 Nov

A Pretty Penny by Batcherlor
A glamorous bathing belle with a fashionable paper parasol poses elegantly on a penny coin. Date: 1927

Panic at the National Penny Bank, East London
Police were required to keep control as panic sent thousands of depositors to the Stepney Branch of the National Penny Bank in the Commercial Road, East London

A Penny Saved is a Penny Gained
" From " Proverbs", a series of postcards. " 1904

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

Hocktide Kiss
Hocktide at Hungerford, Berkshire, England. A Tutti Man carrying a bouquet demands a kiss from every female, or a penny fine! Date: 1930s

Where to eat dinner with chopsticks a la chinoise
Scene from 1920 of a Chinese restaurant in Londons Chinatown in Limehouse. The first Chinese to settle in Britain arrived in the late 18th century

Penny Post Jubilee 1890
A Penny Post Jubilee card, issued in 1890 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee (50 years, 1840 - 1890) of the Penny Post, which was introduced by Sir Rowland Hill (top left). Date: 1890

Safety Bike
A man wheels a Safety Bicycle, an early form of bicycle from the 1890s which replaced the Penny Farthing. However, he obviously does not think it safe enough to ride through Holborn, London! 1930s

Three children playing on a hill. A girl and boy dance, while another boy sits on a stile and plays a penny trumpet. Below is a hen and her chicks. first published 1879

Street music: 1892 slum scene
A noisy street scene of 1892:children dance to a barrel organ, competing with an accordion, penny whistle and the hubbub of passers by. 1892

Kangeroo safety bicycle advert, 1885
Faster than any bicycle, safter than any tricycle: the record breaking Kangeroo safety bicycle. Somewhat resembling a penny farthing, the machine was made by Hillman

Leaflet, A Defence of the Army Pay Corps
Opening page of a printed leaflet entitled: Non-Combatants in Khaki: A Defence of the Army Pay Corps. circa 1919

Birmingham workhouse penny, 1812

J Hassall. See saw Margery Daw
See Saw Margery Daw, Johnnie shall have a new master, Johnnie shall have but a penny a day, because he can t work any faster. 20th century

Scottish Penny Wedding
A Penny Wedding where the guests are expected to make a financial contribution to the cost of the wedding and setting up the newly-weds in the necessities of life. Date: early 19th century

EDITOR SEEKING DIRT
A penny press editor rakes for sensational claptrap in the muddy stream of twaddle and mock morality oblivious of the angel who bids him search for Truth Date: 1867

Ice Cream Vendor, London
Children buy penny ices from an Italian ice cream vendor in London Date: 1896

Nocturnal Cycle Rally
A nocturnal cycle rally at Woodford, Essex. Date: 1889

Penny Farthing Race
The Last Lap - a race on penny-farthing bicycles. Date: late 19th century

Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns! Old woman runs! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns! Date: 1913

Penny train arriving, Victoria Station, Central London
The workmens penny train arrives at Victoria Station, Central London, just before 6am each workday. Date: 1865

Cover page of pamphlet, A Night in a Workhouse
The cover page of A Night in a Workhouse -- an undercover expose of conditions in the casual ward of the Lambeth workhouse in London

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