Profiteers Collection

Cartoon, The good trader. A salesman of food and other items offers a French soldier some Camembert cheese for a much lower price if he will say where the 20th Corps is

Cartoon, Women also profiteer, WW1
Cartoon, Women also profiteer. Showing how women are also profiting from the war, either by socialising with servicemen or selling them expensive flowers, food and drink. Date: 1916

Front cover of The Bystander, 1915: US war profiteering
A British comment on war profiteering by America, and the British right to search neutral merchant vessels for contraband during World War One. Date: 1915

Cartoon, A nouveau riche man, WW1
Cartoon, a nouveau riche man, who has made his money from the war, tells a showgirl that he arrived in Paris in clogs, and he won t blush to admit it

Cartoon, Trader and French soldier, WW1
Cartoon, a trader claims to sell everything in his shop. A French soldier says: What if I offered to buy your wifes heart? The trader replies: That would be five sous

Cartoon, Fighting zone, WW1
Cartoon, Fighting zone. Two French soldiers have just bought food and drink from a trader. The trader is amazed that they keep buying cheap wine from him at an inflated price

WW1 - A Profiteer making use of his proft from the warfare. With their wealth, they could have a maid to wipe the dogs nose, instead of the wife " demeanin " herself. Date: 1919

Profit tears by Fred Buchanan
Two profiteers, with waistlines to match their wallets, bemoan the fact that " this could have been a good war had we had it in peacetime" - a comment on businessmen profiteering from World

A Legal Method of thrashing out grain or forestallers & regr
Profiteers vomit and disgorge products they have monopolised while Lord Chief Justice Kenyon threshes them with a flail enforcing the repealed laws against forestallers and regraters. Date: 1800

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