Sentimental Collection (page 4)

British fundraising poster, WW1
For Your Children. Buy War Savings Certificates and they will live to thank you, 1917. Colour half tone print of a pastel drawing by Rosina Mantovari Gutti, published as No

George R. Sims Dagonet Ballads - The Workhouse
An illustration inspired by In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse - one of the Dagonet Ballads written by George R Sims in 1877

Waiting for Daddy by Lawson Wood, WW1 postcard
Waiting for daddy. I must take care of mummy now. Illustration on a postcard showing a patriotic little boy wearing a pith helmet

Mother O Mine, WW1 postcard, Lawson Wood
Sentimental postcard showing a young soldier on horseback, thinking of his mother back at home as he goes into battle. Date: c.1916

British Tommy on leave returns home to his family
From a Somme dugout to the Home Fireside A British Tommy on leave returns home to his family - just in time for Christmas Dinner. Date: 1916

Leon Bloy Photo
LEON BLOY French writer, convert to Catholicism in whose cause he wrote several nauseatingly sentimental works, photographed in 1895. Date: 1846 - 1917

Beverley Nichols - 3
BEVERLEY NICHOLS Popular author who was not afraid to parade his feelings in a sentimental manner. Date: 1898 - 1983

Beverley Nichols - 2
BEVERLEY NICHOLS Popular author who was not afraid to parade his feelings in a sentimental manner. Date: 1898 - 1983

British Soldier and his Mother - Boer War uniform
British Soldier and his Mother - wearing Boer War uniform - sentimental postcard Date: circa 1904

Classic early 20th century sentimental postcard
Will you think of me, when I am away. Classic early 20th century sentimental postcard. This postcard was (interestingly, although not deliberately re)

Girl in toy cart - Off to the Market - Sentimental postcard
Girl with three little puppies in a toy cart - Off to the Market - Sentimental postcard Date: 1903

Canadian man sitting on his sled with his two huskies
A Canadian man sitting on his sled with his two huskies Date: circa 1930s

Sterne Yorick Illus
LAURENCE STERNE Sternes alter ego Yorick in his novel, Sentimental Journey, in his encounter with the Grisette Date: 1713-1768

A fair Puritan

Easter cross. Cross with biblical scenes and children with easter eggs. Date c1877

God bless our school. Print shows books, a globe, a bust sculpture, a still life painting and a painting depicting the majesty of nature, two chalk slates, and a map of America. Date c1874

Red-Ridinghood and the wolf. Date 1867

Head of the Madonna. Date 1921 or 1922

Dr. D. Jaynes tonic vermifuge. A sure remedy for worms. Advertisement for patent remedies, showing Moses held in a basket by a young woman. Date c1889

The home above

Heavenward

A Grey and a Chesnut horse
Reproduction of a painting of a Grey and a Chesnut horse, set within a pale green frame containing horseshoe motifs. Date: circa 1910s

Young couple in love - " Seems to me I ve always loved you!" Date: 1918

Little Girl feeds her two horses in the stables
Luxuries " At evening-time, she fondly tends To all the wants of both her friends." A little girl gives a few raisins to Dobbin and Bobbin. Date: circa 1906

Couple on a romantic walk with their horse
A smart couple heading through the countryside on a romantic walk with their fine grey horse. It would appear that the girl has been presented with a little posy of wild flowers by her beau

The Old Curiosity Shop, death of little Nell
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841. There, upon her little bed, she lay at rest

New Year Greetings Postcard " To day within my breast there swells A flood of earnest hope for you, And with the Chiming New Year Bells My greeting speedeth fresh

D those Raiders
Damn those Raiders! The searchlight from a German Zeppelin flying over the English coast spoils a tender clifftop moment between a soldier and his sweetheart. circa 1917

Princess Alexandra of Denmark lands at Gravesend on Saturday 7 March 1863 for her marriage to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales

19th century mother and baby
A woman in a crinoline from the mid-19th century tenderly hugs her small baby close to her while fairies and cherubs look with curiosity towards her and a wooden crib. Date: 1926

Kissing his daughter goodbye
I love a lassie - a sailor bids a fond farewell to his daughter in this touchingly sentimental card. Date: 1917

Sailor with his daughter
A jolly Royal Navy sailor with his young daughter peeking over his shoulder. She is holding (and waving) a small white ensign flag

Orphans - Young girl and two little tiny puppies
Possibly the ultimate sentimental postcard of all time.... This delightful photograph is entitled Orphans an one might be correct to assume that both the two puppies

Egypt - Three Shoeblacks ( at ease )
Egypt - Three Shoeblacks (" at ease" ) Date: circa 1910s

Standing at the Workhouse Gate - song cover
The front cover to the sheet music for Standing at the Workhouse Gate - a sentimental about a destitute mother and her children on the brink of entering the workhouse

British Ballad, Lucy and Colin
LUCY AND COLIN. British ballad by Thomas Tickell (1685-1740), based on the traditional Fair Margaret and Sweet William ballad

Sentimental Postcard - Mother and daughters

Sentimental Postcard - Two young girls amid blossoms

The Disaster of the Scott Expedition
Page from The Sphere, a journal which took great interest in the expedition to the South Pole of Captain Scott, which gives a commentary on the disaster

English postman
A postman collects the mail from a red letterbox on a snowy winter morning

Lichfield
Effigy known as The Sleeping Children in the cathedral of Lichfield, Staffordshire

Three Little Donkeys from Crete

Young girl with a baby donkey
Open your mouth and shut your eyes - a young donkeys look of anticipation soon to be turned to realisation. A delightful sentimental postcard

Except on Business
Young girl stands by a Christmas dinner table staring at a roast turkey. A dog sits on a dinner chair beside her looking hungry

Crusty Old Bachelors Christmas
Humorous illustration showing two old bachelors taking their Christmas dinner while reading newspapers at a restaurant or eating house

Caught
Children discovered in a larder or pantry by their parents and a horrified housekeeper or nanny eating jam out of a huge jar

Gold Dress 1830S
Late C19th century depiction of clothing from the 1830s. The dress has full sleeves tight from the elbow to the wrist & a full skirt & is worn with a belt & ruff

Green Scarf 1830S
Late C19th century depiction of 1830s costume: white dress trimmed in pink. The sleeves appear long & tight fitting. Worn with a long green scarf trimmed with black lace

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