Seams Collection

White Star Line, RMS Olympic - ceiling ornament. Heavily decorated bronze strap, used to hide the seams in the coving woodwork at ceiling level

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic - brochure
White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic, The Largest Steamers in the World - red cover foldout cutaway brochure, The Central Shipping Agency, Bath. Date: early 20th century

WW2 Poster -- Typhus, How Is It Spread?
Information poster on typhus and how it is spread. Colour lithograph, British Army anti-typhus medical information poster, after 2nd Lieutenant Stacey Hopper

Costume / Seal Gloves 1935
Schiaparelli design: seal fur gloves, cellophane blouse, long light coloured coat with piped seams, velvet hat with aigrette & snood & a handbag with a lock shaped clasp. Date: 1935

Fashion Plate / 1845 / Men
A gent in day dress clothes, also a frock coat, S-B coat curving away at the front, strapped trousers with decorative side seams, cravats & waistcoats with collars

Fashionable women from 1861
Pardessus Imperatrice with corded seams; mantle with mauve silk trim; pardessus with scalloped cuff; black & green mantle with guipure pelerine; childs pardessus trimmed with gimp. 1861

WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threds
WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threads. Lovely card by Evelyn E Morris, relating to the need for austerity during wartime and hence a lack of available cloth for new clothes or repairs

Mining for Graphite in Madagascar, Africa
Mining for Graphite in deposits in Madagascar, Africa Date: 1910s

Advert for Symetra Bear Brand stockings 1938
Legs can be lovelier this year ! We must apologize for implanting the dark suspicion in your mind, but are you sure that your stockings look as lovely from dehind as they do from the front? 1938

Advert for Symetra Bear Brand stockings 1939
Out of the Christmas box Symetra Bear Brand pure silk stockings 1939

FUR COAT
A luxurious fur coat, spread out over a carpet to demonstrate its seams and sleeves. Date: 1940s

Hero Worship - postcard by Lawson Wood
Hero Worship - a postcard by Lawson Wood showing a housewife doting on her portly husband (bursting out of his uniform), having served him a meal and provided him with an ale and a comfy chair

Fashions April 1868
Girl: habit shirt, short dress, tunic of overlapping panels that end in tasselled points. Woman: green pelerine, dress with train & gored skirt with white edged seams

Frock Coats 1854
Three French gentlemen in frock coats with minor variations. A view is also given of the seams & vents at the back. Also trousers, shoes with bows, bowties & top hats

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