Poker Collection

Asprey Christmas presents, 1926
Colour advertisement for Asprey of Bond Street displaying a wide variety of Christmas present ideas, including an attache case, a shagreen cigarette box, leather handbag, crocodile handbag pochette

The Great Game of Poker
Four men sit around a table playing poker while a fifth stands watching the game and smoking

Poker, detail
Cast polished steel fire poker with a twisted brass handle and a floral finial, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a shovel

Poker
Cast polished steel fire poker with a twisted brass handle and a floral finial, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a shovel

Fire companion set
Chromed metal fire tongs with a thistle-shaped knop, from an Ianthe fire companion set, made in England c.1930. Date: c.1930-1939

Wartime advert for the Poker Flat range from Joyce Shoes. Date: 1943

Comic postcard, An Englishmans Home Date: 1909

Ancient keys and cooking utensils
Ancient keys found in Velletri 1, and various cooking utensils (pot, ladle, sieve and poker) found in Naples 2. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani

Stationery, Crystalate Manufacturing Co Ltd, Billiards and Pool Balls, Poker Chips and Counters, Dominoes, Draughts, Screw Stoppers, Bottle Tops, Tonbridge, Kent. 1900

A Poker, A Shovel, a Pair of Tongs and a Brush
Smiling Fireplace tools - A Poker, A Shovel, a Pair of Tongs and a Brush. Date: 1922

The Queen of Hearts - Holding a Royal Flush Date: 1910s

Advert for Parkins and Gotto, gambling items 1903
Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of gambling items, including a miniature shooting saloon, poker dice, puff billiards, roulettes

Fire shovel
Brass fire shovel with a turned shaft featuring three knops, a ball knop at the the top, and a bell-shaped pan, part of a set of fire tools made in England c.1650-1700. Date: c.1650-1700

Poker
Brass and wrought iron poker with a turned shaft featuring three knops and a ball knop at the top, part of a set of fire tools made in England c.1650-1700. Date: c.1650-1700

Set of fire tools
Brass and wrought iron poker with a turned shaft featuring three knops and a ball knop at the top, part of a set of fire tools made in England c.1650-1700. Date: c.1650-1700

Rabbits Playing Cards
Three rabbits playing a game of cards. Date: early 1930s

Tatler cover - Helen Wills Moody
HELEN WILLS MOODY (1905-1998) American tennis player and eight times winner of Wimbledon. Nicknamed Little Miss Poker Face. Championed the wearing of the sun visor which she is pictured wearing here

Stoking the fire before heading to bed on Christmas Eve
A young boy in nightshirt and nightcap stokes the fire with his Mother before heading to bed on Christmas Eve, to dream of the joy, fun and raft of surprises the morrow may bring... Date: 1912

Advert for Asprey gift for christmas 1936
Acceptable gifts for christmas. Date: 1936

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - security check before bed. circa 1910s

Card; Tongs and so On
The poker, the shovel. the broom and tongs, made Christmas merry with dance and songs Date: circa 1905

Suffragette, poker Rolling Pin. Scruffy woman with a poker in one hand and a rolling pin in the other declares, I want my Vote Date: circa 1910

Illustration from Paris Plaisirs number 84, June 1929
Illustration Le Poker de la Vie by Pem from Paris Plaisirs number 84, June 1929 Date: 1929

Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player
Miss Helen Wills (Moody), (1905-1998), American tennis player and eight times winner of Wimbledon. Nicknamed Little Miss Poker Face. Pictured in silhouette by Captain H. L

The winner. Theres no need for luck when a man has pluck, A smile and a cheerful song, and passes on strife in the game of life to help the world along

Poker Playing Pig of Colonel Wood
The American showman Colonel Woods large pig taking part in a game of poker. Date: 1872

Lady Fortune out to capture one more heart... Date: circa 1910s

Three of a Kind and Two Jacks - a very solid full house card hand in Poker - cheekily represented here! Date: circa 1920s

Silver Slipper Casino - Reno, Nevada, USA. Gamers taking on the roulette wheel and betting against the house in Blackjack. Date: circa 1950s

Norantea guianensis, red hot poker
Plate 87 from Original Watercolour Drawings of Plants made in British Guiana by Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (Dicotyledons)

A Round of Poker, 1902. Vallotton, Felix (1865-1925). Oil on cardboard. Date: 1902

Drunken Husband arrives home
Weather Forecast - " Stormy" (Thunder and Lightning to follow) A drunken husband arrives home to find his wife still up and awiting his return sat at a table with clock

A man who could not find a match for Wills Gold Flake cigare
Gentleman in a private theatre box who couldn t find a match, kindly receives a light from a hot poker by a clown on the stage. Date: 1930

Lear / Nonsense / Poker
There was an Old Man with a poker, Who painted his face with red oker When they said, You re a Guy! He made no reply, But knocked them all down with his poker

Triton's spear - Crane - Kniphofia
That, reddening on the Triton's spear, foretells the waning of the year. (The flower resembles Kniphofia or Red-hot Poker')

Gents Card Game (1 of 2)
Four country gents play a game of cards (1 of 2)

Casting / Firing a Horse
The Newly approved method of casting and fireing. A horse is firmy restrained with ropes before branding with a hot poker

Ballroom Dance / Forgotten
Though he has reserved this waltz on her dance card, he has not come to claim her - has he forgotten her ? is he drunk ? is he playing poker ? or has he found another ?

Modern Mantlepiece / 1873
An open fireplace with metal screen, ornate mantelshelf, fender and fire tools - the archetypal Victorian hearth

Helen Wills Moody (left), American tennis champion, photographed with Miss Coward (?) or Rowland (?). Known as Little Miss Poker Face, Wills Moody won Wimbledon eight times

Two Women Read by Fire
A young woman reads aloud by the fire while an older woman listens attentively

Georgian Girls Griddle
A group of young girls keenly watch as one of their number uses a griddle over an open fire while another stands by with a poker. Is it supper or a fortune telling custom?

Alice / White Knight / Poker
WHITE KNIGHT The White Knight slides down the poker

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