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Wartime Toby jugs, WW1

Advertisement for Soane & Smith of Oxford Street, promoting their range of Toby jugs based on wartime leaders, principally Sir David Beatty, Sir Douglas Haig, Lord Jellicoe, Marshal Joffre, Lord French, Prime Minister David Lloyd George, President Woodrow Wilson and Marshal Foch. Last but not least is a special design based on the character Old Bill, portrayed in the hugely popular cartoons by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander magazine. Date: 1918

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Poole Pottery

Poole Pottery on display at the Gieves Gallery at 22 Old Bond Street, London. Poole Pottery was founded in 1873 on Poole quayside, where it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory operations away from the quay in 1999. The company went into administration in 2006, but has since re-opened

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Different types of roman amphorae. 2nd century BC-3rd centur

Different types of amphorae. From left to right: wine amphora, 1st century AD, from Rome; amphora for fish, 1st century AD, from Spain; wine amphora, 2nd-1st centuries BC, from Baths of Titus at Rome, probably for wine amphora, 2nd -3rd centuries AD, from Egypt. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans