Quality Collection (page 6)

Sheila Kaye-Smith - 4
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH A writer of quality, notably of novels about Sussex such as Sussex Gorse photographed attending the flowers in her home at Holland Park, London. Date: 1887 - 1956

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan - Silk Industry - Conditioning House. Date: circa 1910s

Denmark - Copenhagen - Amalienborg Palace
A stunning pin-sharp photographic postcard of a View through the Colonnade in the Amalienborg Palace, the winter home of the Danish royal family. The statue Date: circa 1910s

Two Babies getting their milk direct from the cow
A quite surreal German postcard, showing two rather plump babies strapped to the back of two cows, their mouths clamped to long tubes originating from the cows udders

Soviet Armenia - Cheese Factory
Soviet Armenia - Kalinin Mechanical Steam Cheese Plant No.1 - Foreman Akushev inspects the pressed round cheeses. Date: circa 1930s

Chanute quadraplane glider (poor quality)

North American Navaho surface-to-surface missile is launched from Cape Canaveral. 1 March 1958. Poor quality photo. Date: 1958

Q is for Quality
Advertising for Fripps Toilet Soap. Alphabet series of 26 postcards featuring children using or holding the product. Date: c.1912

Buckeye girls manufactured of the best quality of vuelta abaja tobacco by CFS. & Bro. Illustration shows two young women smoking and dancing arm in arm. Date c1869

Select - manufactured of the best quality of vuelta abajo tobacco. Illustration shows a young woman seated on a veranda and a man standing before her with an open box of Select tobacco products; both

Tour of Eugenie Blair, A lady of quality by Francis Hodgson Burnett and Stephen Townesend. Date c1899

Butchers shop display, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A Prestcold refrigerated display cabinet at C R Harris Butchers in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, with advertising material for Birds Eye and Frood foods. 1965

Fish & Chip shop, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Behind the counter view of Blooms Fish & Chip shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1966

Craven Cigarettes 1937
Craven A cigarettes - My throat is safe with Craven A... you can trust their smoothness and quality. 1937

Quality Inn, The Strand, London
Quality Inn, next to Cafe Anglais on The Strand, London. Date: 1947

London Palladium, Argyll Street
The exterior of the London Palladium on Argyll Street, London. Black and White Milk Bars and Quality Inn are next door. Date: 1947

Bedtime Story 1930S
A loving mother reads a bedtime story to her child beside a table lamp. reflected in a dressing table mirror. Date: 1930s

Henry Brooke, Writer - 1
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality. Date: 1703 - 1783

Henry Brooke, Writer - 2
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality. Date: 1703 - 1783

Testing Seed Potatoes
A man and woman testing seed potatoes, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Henry Brooke, Writer - 3
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality, seated at a table, writing. with his autograph Date: 1703 - 1783

Apple Inspector
Boxes of freshly harvested and boxed English apples are inspected as they come in from the orchards, before being sent to the packing stations. Date: 1950s

Cafe Anglais on The Strand, London
Cafe Anglais, where you can meet, dine and dance to Alan Carr till midnight. The Lyceum on The Strand also offers old time dancing every Monday

Wilmot Breeden advertisement
A Beefeater stands guard on the right-hand side of this illustration, which features a lady in an elegant evening gown and fur stole, accompanied by a gentleman in ornate period naval uniform

Cocoa Tester
A woman uses a shaker to test the quality of a batch of cocoa. Date: early 1930s

SUNBEAM 1907
Frederick Eastmead and friends in a 15/20 Sunbeam, a quality tourer fitted with fold-back hood, windscreen, lamps, horn and spare tyre. 1907

Quality Street: Valentin
Phoebe and Valentine Brown walking in the rain. Date: First published: 1913

Conveyor Belt Control
A man responsible for quality control on a conveyor belt. Date: 1960s

White Star Line, SS Olympic window sketches
A White Star Line handwritten booklet entitled Particulars of Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, SS Olympic, May 1911. The vessel returned to the shipyard in Belfast in October 1911 for alterations

Preparing Seeds for Raspberry Jam rations
A ridiculous amount of workers chipping, shaping, carving, polishing and checking the quality of artifical seeds for raspberry jam rations during World War One Please note

Bullion Office. Bank of England. Sycee Silver
This bar of silver was used by the Chinese Emperor to pay a ransom. It is above the quality of British silver coin and has the date of issue

Dryden Jewelry Advert
The Spring collection of jewellery from Fahrner- Schmucks: quality, yet affordable prices

Lucas Electrics
Advertisement from 1959 for Lucas Quality Electrical Equipment showing a car driving through a snowy Christmas landscape

Reading Outside Shop
A bookseller stands in his shop doorway while customers leaf through his volumes of quality books outside the shop

The Launch of R. M. S. Queen Mary, 1934
Photograph of the launch of R.M.S. Queen Mary from John Browns shipyard, Clydebank, 26th September 1934. The Cunard Line ship is seen under the control of a number of tugs

Florence Nightingale visiting the Hut Hospitals, at Balaclav
Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father. Although it was not deemed suitable for ladies of Florences social standing to become

The Galley Head Lighthouse, near Cape Clear, Cork, 1879
Engraving of the Galley Head Lighthouse, near Cape Clear, November 1879. A Board of Trade paper had been issued that year, praising the lighthouse and the quality of its light

Touring in the Alps
Motor touring in the Alps : the quality of the road- surface ensures that even if you meet another vehicle, neither of you is likely to be travelling at speed !

Grandfather & Grandsons
A happy domestic scene: Grandfather reads a copy of Life magazine while his two well-behaved grandsons play a game of cards together

Imaginary Ufo (Buhler)
This painting captures the mysteriously ambiguous quality of the UFOs - part nuts-and- bolts spacecraft, part dreamlike shapes which echo subconscious archetypes

Footman and Butler
A footman and butler await the arrival of their masters carriage at the front entrance to a sizeable residence. The quality of the outfits befits the high status of the family

Money Changer / China
A money changer examines a coin to check against others which he stoes on strings to correctly assess size and weight

Swiss Gentleman
A Swiss gentleman of quality

Turkish Noblewoman
A Turkish woman of quality in the 16th century

French Lady of Quality
A French lady of quality during the reign of Louis XIV

Fruit and Fancy Cakes
Dundee cake of the first quality is available for 2/8, whilst an exceptionally rich fruit cake " of handsome proportions" is yours for just 11/. Date: 1937

Welsh Pony and Foal
A Welsh pony and her foal sharing quality time together in a paddock

Milk Inspector
A (British) Government Inspector quality checking bottles of milk on crates on the back of a milk float

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