Poke Collection

Suffragette Votes for Women Pepper Pot
A silver suffragette pepper pot or muffineer a small pot with a removable lid - the head of the figure. Holes in the bonnet dispense pepper or sugar

Ethiopia / Cartoon / Italy
French comment on Ethiopian defeat of Italy - Italy receives a poke in the eye from a long split bread or " pain fendu

FASHION & FLOWER BOOK
Grey patterned robe with long tight sleeves; a matching pelerine-mantelet with the lappets tied behind to form a bustle. A crucifix on a black ribbon is also worn. circa 1840

Doll representing a girl Victorine with her hands in her pockets. Wooden doll dressed by the young Princess Victoria. Color plate after an illustration by Alan Wright from Frances H

American pokeweed, Phytolacca americana (Virginian poke, Phytolacca decandra). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes

American white hellebore or Indian poke, Veratrum viride. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

FORTUNE TELLER 1820
Two ladies apprehensively consult a fortune teller, while their gentleman friends poke (literally) fun at them Date: 1820

THE LOCK STEP, or drilling for the Review.Coloured etching after Capt Charles Aylmer, 11th Regiment of Foot.Published bys W Fores, London, 4 Aug 1797.Having served in the Army from 1789 to 1799

Two fairies on a Christmas card, sitting by a fire, one with holly in his hair. With ornate gold and white edging. Date: circa 1890s

A wasted life: satire on the invention of tanks, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II chides Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer, for not inventing anything useful, like the armoured tanks of the allies. Date: 1916

SEASIDE HEADS
Two men and a woman poke their heads through a board, so that they can be added to silly bodies! Date: 1910

Egyptian street knife grinder - Port Said. A young boy is fascinated and has popped his head out of a small window to watch the grinder grinding away. Date: circa 1902

Promenade Dress 1840
Public promenade dress: green & black robe with skirt en tablier & bishop sleeves with reverse points at the cuff. Accessories: collar fastened with a brooch. Date: 1840

Sow and Piglet
A sow and her piglet poke their snouts out of their pen

Ladies by a Fireside
Two young ladies sit in front of an open fire : should they require them, a whole battery of tools are available to poke the coals, shovel the ash or brush the hearth

Mishap with an Umbrella
An unthinking young lady in a long horizontal bonnet, while keeping her head down, accidentally stabs a unsuspecting man with the point of her umbrella. OUCH!

Dairy Cows / Feeding Time
A row of cows heads poke out of their narrow units around feeding time

Ermine Muff 1840
Green pelisse-robe with cord fastenings down the front, on the reverse points of the cuff & the upper part of the bishop sleeves. An ermine muff & ermine & pink collar are worn

Lady in Shawl 1837
Pale grey robe: scallop shaped trim down one side of the skirt composed of black velvet & blonde lace, large Kashmir shawl & lace edged collar with brooch. Footman in livery

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