Sealing Collection

British Military Recruitment Poster - Inter-war period
Recruitment poster, Join the Lancashire Fusiliers, 1920 (c). Printed by Gale and Polden Ltd, 1920 (c). Includes photographs of Victoria Cross winners from the regiment. Date: 1920

The Terra Nova of Scotts Antarctic Expedition
The ship Terra Nova - the vessel used by Robert Falcon Scott (1868 -1912) for his South Polar Expedition in 1911-12. Built originally for the Dundee whaling and sealing fleet (launched 1884)

Sealing bottles of Botot water, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Sealing bottles of Botot water, sold at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Grumman Avenger I FN757
Royal Navy - Grumman Avenger I FN767, fresh off the delivery ship, (marks left by gap sealing tape still evident). Date: circa 1943

Major Cavagnari sealing the treaty of peace at Gandamak, 26th May 1879. The treaty officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Date: 26th May 1879

Method of sealing an ancient letter - Paston correspondence
Method of sealing an ancient letter, an item from the correspondence of the Paston family in the time of Henry VI and Richard III (15th century). Date: 15th century

Handwritten address on a letter with red sealing wax
Handwritten address on a letter to the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth (John Wallop, 1767-1853), 61 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, from Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), British Prime Minister

Wax, glue, gum and dye with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede
John, King of England (1166-1216) signs the Magna Carta (Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England) - forced onto him by the feudal barons

SEALING LETTER WITH WAX
Sealing a letter with wax. Date: circa 1840

Envelope with sealing wax and one penny stamp, 1848
Envelope with sealing wax from Woodbridge, Suffolk, date stamped 2 June 1848, addressed to J W Candler, 23 Liverpool Terrace, Liverpool Road, Islington, North London

Sealing wax and seal with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Wax, glue, gum and dye with comic verse on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Last Will and Testament with verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Envelope with red seal on a greetings postcard
Envelope with red seal and a four-leaf clover on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a wooden crate. Date: circa 1890s

Alice in Wonderland, frog and fish footmen
Alice in Wonderland, the frog and fish footmen. Date: early 20th century

Te Heuheu, Maori chief and warrior, New Zealand
Hepi Te Heuheu (probably Tureiti Te Heuheu Tukino V, 1865/1866-1921), Maori chief and warrior, New Zealand -- portrait surrounded by stamps and a red seal. Date: 1906

Coming out of the Post Office by Charles Robinson
Illustration captioned Coming out of the Post Office. The scene shows a young girl holding a letter and licking the stamp as she leaves a crowded post office. Date: 1906

London Trade Card - Dorothy Mercier, Printseller and Stationer, at the Golden Ball, Windmill Street, facing Silver Street, Golden Square. 18th century

Robins and envelope on a New Year card
Three robins and an envelope on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Board Partition with Letter Rack and Music Book, 1668, by Co
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts (1657-1683). Flemish painter. Board Partition with Letter Rack and Music Book, 1668. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Fairy postman riding grasshopper on a Christmas card
Fairy postman riding a grasshopper on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Owl in an envelope on a Christmas card. Date: 1891

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Y Darn Papur
Y Darn Papur. Recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee as Poster No. 15. Welsh version of The Scrap of Paper - Prussias Perfidy

St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada - Bowling Bros Sealing Fleet
Wharves at St. Johns Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada - Bowling Brothers Steam Sealing Fleet Date: 1902

Mother Hubbard / Writing
Mother Hubbard/Writing

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Sealing Cans - Hackney Wick

Fantasy card - Istanbul - Telegram form
Fantasy postcard in the form of a telegram form, featuring a street scene in Constantinople (Kara Koy). The Imperial Ottoman Post and Telegraph Service

The Terra Nova, 1903
Photograph of the three-masted barque, Terra Nova, taken in 1903 when she was setting out for the Antarctic to try to find and help the Discovery expedition

Aristides Ostracised
Aristides the Just, victor of the Battle of Marathon, is approached in the Agora by an illiterate citizen, asking him to carve his name on a shell. Aristides is then ostracised

Sealing Doors, China
CHINESE NEW YEAR Chinese seal their front doors on New Years Eve, so that their good luck doesn t go with the Old Year

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