Rum Collection

Piccadilly Circus by night, London. Date: 1960s

Cuba - Bacardi Building, Havana Date: circa 1950s

Cuba - Original Bacardi Factory, Santiago de Cuba Date: circa 1950s

Issuing Grog to Navy
On deck on the Royal Sovereign ship: sailors are issued with grog, a mixture of rum and water

Barman standing by well-stocked bar
Barman standing by a well-stocked bar. The cash register displays an advertisement for Bass & Co Barley Wine. Packets of Capstan cigarettes are on display below. Date: circa 1910

HMS Alexandra, rum rations, Royal Navy, probably circa 1900 (hand coloured photo)

Royal Navy, HMS Rodney items
MILITARIA, ROYAL NAVY: HMS Rodney items, rum measure, copper ashtray, caddy spoon, oval dish, sweetheart pendant, Vesta case and good luck horseshoe, framed

Royal Navy memorabilia, HMS Rodney
ROYAL NAVY: HMS Rodney rum measure, copper ashtray, caddy spoon, oval dish, sweetheart pendant, Vesta case and good luck horseshoe, framed

John Macarthur
A miniature portrait painting of the father of the wool industry in Australia, John Macarthur, 1767-1834. He was instrumental in organising a rebellion against the colonial government

Sultans Tombs - Mausoleum of Aleeddin Mosque, Konya, Turkey
The courtyard of Aleeddin Mosque (Camii) encloses two monumental mausolea or turbe. According to an inscription on the facade, Kilij Arslan II built the decahedral tomb with the conical roof

Sifaiye Medresesi at Sivas, Turkey
Sifaiye Medresesi - a medrese built in 1217 in Sivas, Turkey. It bears typical Seljuk features and was built by the Rum Seljuk Sultan Kaykaus I

Comic postcard, Women looking over garden fence Date: 20th century

Piccadilly Circus at night, London
Piccadilly Circus at night with illuminated advertisements. Date: circa 1956

Piccadilly Circus at night
Piccadilly Circus, London, at night, with advertisements reflected in fountain. Date: circa 1950s

Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator in
Captain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage

Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar

Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807

Indian almond, Terminalia catappa
Indian almond or Malabar almond, Terminalia catappa, Terminalia del Malabar. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Woman in fancy-dress costume of a demon
Woman in a costume by Sylvestre of a demon (diablesse) for a masquerade ball, Paris, late 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Ch. Fernique after an illustration by E

Jamaican industry was struggling against fierce rivalry of production volumes from the great European Nations manufactures

REYKJAVIK STORE 1876
From drums to rum, you may buy just about anything in this general store in Reykjavik, Iceland Date: 1876

RUM RUNNING USA 1923
RUM ROW Liquor carriers outside American territorial waters, off New Jersey, wait to unload their wares Date: 1923

Advertising postcard for Bacardi Rum from Cuba - A jolly pipe-smoking tourist staggering toward the gangplank bridge of his liner clutching his precious three bottles... Date: 1940

The private bar at Havana Club Rum, Havana, Cuba, with two bartenders and two customers. Date: circa 1930s

Yo, Ho, Ho & a Bottle of Rum - pirate by A. L. Grace
A ruddy looking pirate holds his rum bottle aloft. Date: 1934

New Year card in the shape of a jug of rum. Date: circa 1890s

Myers Inn and Liquor Store, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
Myers Planters Punch Inn and Liquor Store, Sugar Wharf, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1938

Mevlana Museum. Turkey
Mevlana Museum at the Mevlana Monastery, of the dervishes monks. Exterior. Konya. Turkey

Suspected Brit Smuggler
A British yachtsman suspected of rum-running throws an American customs man off his ship. Date: 1922

American anti-gambling cartoon
An American anti-gambling cartoon, showing a Rum-Soaked Old Sport sitting at a table. The verse below ends: It would be very hard to find / A more worthless, useless sample of mankind. Date: 1906

Rum Drink List at Don the Beachcomer
Reproduction of the illustration used on the front cover of the Rum Drink List at Don the Beachcomer (" Host to Diplomat and Beachcomer, Pirate and Prince")

Shipping Rum - British Guiana (Guyana)
Shipping Rum (and sugar cane required in the production of rum) - British Guiana (the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana)

Card in the shape of a bottle of rum -- Rum Stuff. circa 1900

Pierce Egans Anecdotes: decrepid horses at Smithfield
Colour plate How to pick a rum one to look at and a good one to go in Smithfield ffrom Pierce Egans anecdotes of the turf, the chase, the ring and the stage, 1827

Water coolers, spirit barrels, etc, Plate 41
Water coolers, spirit barrels, syphons, seltzogenes, refrigerative and syphon filters, Plate 41, in a range of styles. Date: circa 1880s

Ten Sous of Rum Please
Schoolmistress to a pupil: " Here, get me ten sous worth of best rum from the corner shop". Date: 1906

Niagara Falls / Rum Runner
Niagara Falls: a rum-runner is swept over the falls during the Prohibition Era Date: 1931

Advert for Silver Rays White Rum 1899
Mrs A. B Marshall s, label for Silver Rays White Rum, " highest quality mature in bond, highly recommended for culinary and medicinal purpose. 1899

These War Sensations by Bruce Bairnsfather
Insoluble A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Christmas Number 1916, offering a competition to fill in the blanks of a sentence uttered when Old Bill realises that his rum jar

Barrels of drink
Slide showing a picture of barrels containing various drinks stacked up. The drinks include gin, brandy, whiskey, rum, port, sherry, porter, ale and stout. Part of Box 366

Label design, Standard Bay Rum, Phil Eisemann, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: early 20th century

Wall plaque with ornate border - WWI
Wall plaque with ornate border showing plane, shells, parcels, tins, barbed wire, etc. Centre shows cartoon I likes me drop o rum. Good condition. Bairnsfather Ware

Large bowl with transfer - Bairnsfatherware
Large bowl with transfer - I likes me drop of rum Decoration around inside of rim and cartoons, etc. on the outside of the bowl. Inscribed on reverse - Grimswade - Souvenir of Great War, commenced

Wall plaque - A Memento of the Great War
Wall plaque with ornate border showing plane, shells, parcels, tins, barbed wire, etc. Centre shows cartoon I likes me drop o rum. A Memento of the Great War on base. Bairnsfather Ware

Cream pottery bowl - WWI - Bairnsfatherware
Cream pottery bowl. With transfer I likes me drop o rum. On reverse - Grimwades, Stoke-on-Trent. A Memento of the Great War

Natural History of the War by Bruce Bairnsfather
Natural History of the War The Flanders Sea Lion (Leo Maritimus) An almost extinct amphibian, first discovered in Flanders during the Winter of 1914-15

Black Watch with issue of rum, Western Front, WW1
Men of the Black Watch enjoying an issue of rum on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

View of Rum from Muck, Scotland
View of the island of Rum from Muck, Inner Hebrides, northern Scotland

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