Silk Collection

Map of the Empire of King Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon 356323 BC), from Greece in the west to India in the east. Date: 1807

Fashions for 1954
On the left, a caramel coloured restaurant suit in heavy silk shantung, its melting shoulder line, vertically seamed jacket, slanting pockets " are all allies for your pleasant evening"

The Royal Bride - Queen Elizabeth II portrait - Published in the Illustrated London News November 29 1947 1947

Silk moth and silkworm, Bombyx mori, on mulberry leaves, Morus alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van

Chiang Kai-Shek / Silk Pic
CHIANG KAI-SHEK Chinese general and politician

Fred Archer
FREDERICK JAMES ARCHER (1857 - 1886). Phenomenally successful jockey from the 1860s to the 1880s. Committed suicide after death of his wife, and owing to ill- health through excessive diet

Twenties flapper girl sitting at a cocktail bar
A flapper girl from the 1920s sitting at a cocktail bar on a high stool. She is slim, wears a slinky dress, and has a cigarette in a holder in her mouth. On the bar is her glass of champagne

Victorian silk birthday card, Girl with dog and flowers by a stream. 19th century

Steve Donoghue by W. Smithson Broadhead
Steve Donoghue (1884-1945), leading flat race jockey of the 1920s, pictured in a portrait by W. Smithson Broadhead specially commissioned by The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Wedding dress of Aphra Farquhar by Worth
A regal wedding dress of white pure silk and antique lace designed by Owen Hyde-Clarke of Worth for the wedding of Aphra Farquhar Fetherstonhaugh to the Earl of Dundonald in 1960

Red-headed girl seated in a sheer red dress. Painting by David Wright reproduced in Men Only Magazine

Zoroastrian (Parsee) Beauty - Iran. Date: 1910

Map of Persia (Iran) - all place names in their Latin form. The ancient realms of Assyria, Babylonia Date: 1807

Lady Charles Cavendish aka Adele Astaire
Adele Astaire (1896 - 1981) comedy actress and dance partner of her brother, Fred Astaire from childhood until 1932, when she retired from dance to marry the British aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer

David Wright woman reclining in black lingerie
Elegant woman with blonde hair, reclining on her bed in black lingerie and red shoes. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Good Morning ! by David Wright
Good Morning! by David Wright, featuring a woman looking at herself in a dressing table mirror while her silk dressing gown slips revealingly off her shoulder

Home of a Spitalfields weaver
Interior of a Huguenot silk weavers home in Spitalfields, London, showing the weaver hard at work at his loom, while other members of the family work on frames and spools

French lady getting ready to go out in her boudoir - she check the powder on her nose - " Yes, that is just perfect!" Date: circa 1910s

The parable of the laborers in the vineyard: The payment of the denarius. ca. 1500. Second Series cloth. Manufacturing in Brussels, possibly in the workshops of Pieter van Aelst

Ballerinas in their dressing room
Ballet dancers prepare for a performance in their dressing room. One dancer is seen applying make up, while the feet of another await her silk ballet slippers. c.1947

Britannia and Eve magazine, August 1940
Front cover illustration featuring a smiling woman, clasping her hands with joy and thinking very happy thoughts. She wears a orange silk dress, bright red lipstick and her hair in finger waves

Victoria Diamond Jubilee celebration bookmark
A beautifully embroidered silk bookmark to commemorate Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

Silk Weaver 1855
A Spitalfields weaver at work

Humming Bird Silk Print
Decorative silk print showing two green birds (possibly Humming Birds) nest building

Pocket watches and wristwatches 1929
A selection of pocket watches that register the minutes, seconds and fifth of seconds and a golfers pocket watch that has pure white metal case and also ladies wristwatches with lever moverment

A Pair of Silk Stockings by Cecil Harcourt
Promotional postcard for A Pair of Silk Stockings by Cecil Harcourt. First produced at the Criterion Theatre, 23rd February 1914

Saucy Postcard - Lady lovers bemoan (?) bad weather
Saucy Seaside Postcard - Two lady lovers bemoan (?) the bad weather, which opens up new opportunities for fun... Date: 1946

Promotional card for the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Ltd - Turkish Company with head office at Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey and branches in London, Paris, Constantinople (Istanbul), New York, Cairo

Design for Dress Silk or Print in brown and black. Body colour. Gouache on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1929

A pair of Angels
A very beautiful chromolithographic postcard depicting a pair of angels, one bowed in prayer and one holding a long thin scroll. Date: circa 1910s

Arrested by an undercover police officer
An undercover female police officer springs her Honey Trap on an unsuspecting criminal, who goes from a jolly evening with a fetching lady to staring down the barrel of a revolver!

Victor Stiebel / Day Dress
Design by Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) for a pink linen and silk surah summer dress. Scooped-out bodice is filled with a lilac spotted scarf & large knot tied to the belt

Showing her Knickers
A young woman lifts her dress to reveal her drawers which have decorative vandyked trim. She also wears a cloche hat, silk stockings and tango heel shoes

Advert for Gorringes womens underwear 1927
Advertisement for F. G Ravissant undergarments, the newest fashion of wrap-around corsets lightly boned, with dainty embroidered silk lacing and ribbon and buttoning. 1927

Advert for Gorringes womens clothing 1928
70th year anniversary offers, smart sultan coat of dull satin, crepe-de-chine printed dress and a elegant coat in crepe-de-chine givree a fascinating mixture of artificial silk and wool. 1928

Advert for Morley silk stockings 1931
Morley silk stockings British from top - to - toe. Date: 1931

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1933
Bear Brands newest expression in silken luxury. Dull lustred, gossamer thread and softest strength. 1933

Advert for Courtaulds Rayons 1936
The miracle of Rayons. Rayon is what you used to call artifical silk. Its name was changed because it isn t silk and it isn t artificial. It is beautiful thread

Packing Parachutes at US Air Fields, San Antonio, Texas, USA Date: circa 1942

CRESQUES, Jafuda (1350-1410); CRESQUES, Abraham ( -1381). Catalan Atlas. 1375. Fifth Leaf. Map of Delli. Detail. Camel caravan in the Silk Road to Catai crossing the mountains of Tian Shan

Humorous pictures showing the Chinese mode of transportation (four men harnessed to a carriage by their long pigtails) and a scene depicting the silk industry. Date 1895

Pucci outfit, 1965
Cotton velvet apres-ski jacket in a characteristic print of Florentine colour, partnered this season by second skin silk jersey tights, printed to match and ending in little trompe l oeil boots

Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste
Poster for Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste (The Juggler Comedian)

Violin accesories, Wurlitzer
Violin cases sold by the Wurlitzer company with prices ranging from 12 dollars fifty, to sixty dollars for an alligator skinned

Caravan to Peshawar
Camel caravan to Peshawar, North West Frontier Province, close to the border between (what is now) Pakistan and Afghanistan

Trabzon, Turkey - View from Poz-tepe
Hilltop view down over the Town and Bay of Trabzon from Poz-tepe. Trabzon on the Black Sea coast in north-eastern Turkey. The capital of Trabzon Province

Calendar girl by David Wright
A blonde woman dressed in a transparent black teddy which leaves little to the imagination relaxes on a chaise lounge and enjoys the sensation of a new pair of silky stockings through her elegantly

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