Pound Collection

Five pound note issued by the Bank of England

Lear / Owl & Pussycat / C19
The Owl & the Pussy-Cat went to sea, In a beautiful pea- green boat; They took some honey, & plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note

British 25-pounder field gun by G. H. Davis
Considered at the time to be the best field gun in the world: the British 25-pounder. Diagrammatic drawings of a famous British weapon

The Owl and The Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note

British Bank Notes
A One Pound and a Ten Shillings note issued following a moratorium announced by the Government at the outbreak of World War One

Old Uk Money 1969
A pile of " old" United Kindom currency, including pound notes shillings and copper coins before Decimalisation occurred on 15 February 1971

We Gladstone / Pound / Mayal
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE English politician MP sitting in a chair

EZRA POUND American writer

English Scientist Michael Faraday Portrait
Michael Faraday English scientist Date: circa 1830s

Advert for John Pound & Co dressing case 1912
Ladys real pigskin dressing case, with solid silver fittings. Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904

Ezra Pound / Morgan
EZRA LOOMIS POUND American poet, critic and editor

Advert for John Pound & Co cases 1913
Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904. With less time to run his business, he gave contol of the company to his two sons

Hastings at High Tide
Rough waves pound the sea wall during high tide at Hastings. A small sailing boat is tossed by the swell

The One Pound Look by Ricardo Brook
Front cover of The Bystander special issue focusing on the fall in the value of the pound during the first half of 1920. Here a rather aristocratic looking gentleman is fashioned out of a pound sign

Advert, Mackintoshs Week-End Chocolate Assortment -- Just look what you find in Week-End. Two shillings and ninepence for a half pound box. 1957

Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander Henderson
Cartoon, Mr Louis Engel (musician and music critic) and Mr Alexander Henderson (theatre owner and director) - I ll have my bond! (A reference to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.) 1885

Cherries, Fourpence a Pound! Cries of London

Advert, Blue Cross Pekoe Souchong Tea from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Date: 1891

RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque, Mr J Berriman
RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque for one pound and five shillings, made payable to Mr John Berriman, father of Second Class passenger and victim William John Berriman, dated 27 May 1917. Date: 1917

RMS Titanic - Relief Fund cheque, Mrs A L Slemen
RMS Titanic - Relief fund cheque for one pound and two shillings dated 28 April 1917 to Mrs Augusta Louisa Slemen, mother of Second Class passenger and victim Richard James Slemen of Cornwall

Advert, John Pound & Co, Oxford Street, London - Ladies Leather Dressing Case Date: 1911

Comic postcard, Chauffeur buying petrol Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman looking for nearest toilet Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man selling his car Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man lighting cigar with one pound note Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Postcard, letter, phone and money Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Money and a broken bottle Date: 20th century

WW2 poster, Join your savings group, now! Date: circa 1944

Photograph of Pound Inn, Leebotwood, Shropshire. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

An Ounce of Help is Worth a Pound of Pity. Artists interpretation of a traditional proverb. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916

Customs of Native American peoples
Interpreter Sacagawea reunited with the Shoshone people on Lewis and Clarkes Expedition 49, a Native American presents a tobacco pipe to the Medicine Stone 50

Cartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as dentist
Cartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as a dentist who has just extracted an eleven million pound tooth - And this is what you call painless dentistry, is it, William? 1885

Educational Bank, One Pound note, for scholastic use only

Two butter tokens in a Butter Token Book, part of a social security benefit scheme, for half a pound of butter at a reduced price. (2 of 2) Date: 1975

Booklet cover, Butter Token Book, part of a social security benefit scheme, for half a pound of butter at a reduced price. (1 of 2) Date: 1975

Debutantes court gowns of 1905
A page of Debutantes wearing traditional white court gowns. Date: 1905

ENGLISH POUND NOTES
A five pound note, a one pound note and a ten shilling note. Date: 1960s

CHERRIES FOR SALE
Round and sound, five pence a pound, Duke cherries: a woman weighs out a quantity of cherries from her wheelbarrow for two children, and ignores the attentions of a carter Date: 1795

Street trade - cherries
Woman in the streets of London selling cherries. Date: 1885

Joy-land! at The Hippodrome, London
Promotional postcard for Joy-land! at The Hippodrome, London. A WW1-era revue starring Shirley Kellogg and produced by her husband Albert de Courville. 1917

Great Exhibition cartoon - the pound and the shilling
The pound and the shilling. " Whoever thought of meeting you here?" Visiting the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace enabled a substantial amount of social mixing between the classes

Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai, India
Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai (Madras), India Date: circa 1920

WW2 poster, Join your savings group, now! Date: 1940

Broadcast Receiving Licence excluding television, issued in 1947, costing twenty shillings (one pound). 1947

Join Scotland?s Only Rifle Regiment, 1960 (c).Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, published by Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Meteorite fall at Ensisheim, Germany (now France)
Depiction of a Donnerstein (thunderstone), a 250 pound meteorite which fell into a field near the town of Ensisheim, Germany (now in north east France, near the border with Germany)

Marine Studios, Marineland, Florida, USA
A man feeding a 600-pound porpoise at Marine Studios, an oceanarium at Marineland, Florida, USA, watched by spectators. Date: 1939

Advert for John Pound & Co luggage case 1920
Advertisement John Pound & Co, compressed fibre cabin trunk, covered brown painted flax canvas, ladys purse and wrist bag. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904

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