Smoking Collection (#39)

Prince Charming cigarettes
Advertisement for Prince Charming cigarettes using the image of the popular Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor. Date: 17th March 1923

Advert for Craven Cigarettes 1939

Fortune Teller with cards
French (Breton?) Fortune Teller with cards Date: circa 1910s

Naples, Italy - view toward Mount Vesuvius Date: circa 1908

George V inspecting boy scouts
King George V inspecting a line of boy scouts, who are standing to attention. A group of people are watching from the top of a wall

Alexei Tolstoy (1883-1945)

Reclining Oriental Beauty with Hookah Pipe - sprawled across a divan covered witha beautiful patterned fabric. Date: circa 1902

Fab Smokers Stand
This fabulous Smokers Stand is not only more decorative than the old wooden type, but more useful, because it cannot possibly topple over. Date: 1930s

Racial Types / Lapland
In summer Laplanders live in tents, moving from pasture to pasture with their reindeer. The reindeer move in vast herds, often many thousand strong. Date: 1930s

Old Hungarian Peasant
An old Hungarian peasant man with a large moustache, smoking a cigar. Date: 1930s

Dog, Pipe and Newspaper
An intellectual dog, smoking a pipe and reading a newspaper. Date: early 1930s

Irish Man on a Cart
A young Irish man wearing a cloth cap, riding home from work on his horse and cart and admiring the beautiful countryside. Date: 1930s

Stylish Roulette
The glamour of gambling - men in suits and smart women, gathered around a roulette table, chain-smoking... Date: 1930s

Stylish Table Setting
An idea for setting out your table ready for your bridge or card party. The candle may be left lit for the use of smokers. Date: 1930s

Sharkskin Cigar Case
A cigar case and cutter made of sharkskin, with silver trims. Date: 1930s

Art Deco Cigarette Case
A stylish Art Deco cigarette case, with an ash tray and a box of matches beside it. Date: 1930s

Mending a Puncture

Smoking Cyclists
Four cycling club boys take a break from their healthy exercise - one of them has a drink, while the other three smoke pipes! Date: 1930s

Shagreen Cigarette Case
A cigarette case of silver and shagreen, painted wood matchbox and a wooden cigarette holder. Date: 1930s

Cigarette Accessories

Prize Sheep Sale
The auctioneer asks for bids during a Prize Sheep Sale at Ipswich Cattle Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Date: 1930s

Cocktail Party 1930S
Well-to-do young men and women living it up at a cocktail party at the Burlington Club, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Vantella Shirt Christmas advertisement, 1953
A glamorous wife ties her husands bow tie, the finishing touch to the Vantella shirt she has bought him for Christmas. Date: 1953

Mrs Bobbitys cottage, with smoke rising from the chimney, and Mrs B herself shaking her tablecloth out at the back door. The birds have built their nest just above her head

Field kitchen and staff, France, WW1
A field kitchen and three staff in France during the First World War. This particular field kitchen catered for 200 men. Date: 1914-1918

Elegant woman in a dress by Paul Poiret
An elegant woman wearing a crepe dress in black, white and gold with a pattern on the skirt, by Paul Poiret. 1924

The Earl of Lonsdale at Bertram Mills Circus, 1935
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857 - 1944), English nobleman. The second son of the 3rd Earl of Lonsdale, he succeeded his brother, the 4th Earl, in 1882

Peasant Family - Kashmir - India
A beautiful very early photographic postcard showing a peasant Family in Kashmir, Northern India. There are three simple spinning wheels in the foreground

George Lester - Mail Carrier at Cortland Post Office
George Lester - Mail Carrier No.1 at The Cortland Post Office, NY, USA. Date: circa 1915

Silhouette of Phil May
Wonderful silhouette self-portrait of the celebrated English cartoonist, Phil May (1864 - 1903) showing him in profile smoking one of his signature cigars. Date: 1911

Dress by Henri Gowns, 1953
A romantic picture frock of grey-blue wild silk. The skirt is worked in huge petals and the rose which decorates the very plain strapless bodice is in muted shades of mauve, pink and grey

Kensitas cigarettes advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Kensitas cigarettes showing a domestic scene where a man, engaged in the masculine task of hanging a picture, is offered a Kensitas cigarette to steady his nerves. Date: 1953

Two sleeveless evening dresses by Doeuillet
Two fashionable sleeveless evening dresses by Doeuillet. On the left, a v-necked green dress with gold speckles. On the right, a black crepe dress with embroidered scoop neck

Giuseppe Garibaldi cruiser sinking in Adriatic, WW1
The Giuseppe Garibaldi armoured cruiser (launched 1899) sinking in the Adriatic during the First World War, having been hit by an enemy torpedo. Date: 18 July 1915

Italian naval action viewed from above, WW1
Italian naval action at sea during the First World War, viewed from above. Date: May 1917

Fire in the Baku oilfields, Armenia, apparently caused by a lack of discipline over cigarette smoking. Date: early 20th century

Natives of a cold country sitting round a fire
Natives of a cold country (probably Inuit Eskimos) sitting round a fire in a wood, smoking their pipes. Date: 19th century

Dr Syntax returned from his tour
Having returned from a journey, Dr Syntax sits smoking before the hearth, talking to a lady who is wielding a whip

Dr Syntax and the superannuated fox hunter
Dr Syntax enjoys the company of fox hunters whilst smoking his pipe

Ship with two funnels at sea, WW1
A ship with two funnels at sea during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Incense. The popular fregranced aromatics illsutrated by Gordon Nicoll who pays tribute to Three Nuns Imperial Tobacco. The picture portraying the products in a library with a porcelain pot

Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), British composer, who composed a work for mark the Festival of Britain. His name is particularly associated with a Celtic revival in music

Djibouti, Two women water carriers
A very odd photographic postcard from Djibouti, East Africa, featuring two women of starkly differing physical stature. On the left is a small woman smoking a large cigarette

King George V on board the Medina
King George V (1865 - 1936) in relaxed mood, smoking a cigarette and smiling at the antics of crew members on the deck below on the Medina in 1911. Queen Mary can be seen alongside him. Date: 1911

Lady in the Bath - Provocative
A rather saucy card showing a lady in the bath with the tagline: Why don t you come up an see me sometime? Date: circa 1940s

Concert at Queens Hall, London, 1893
The first smoking concert given by the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society at the then new Queens Hall, Langham Place, in the presence of the Prince of Wales(later King Edward VII)

The Old Dutchman in His Garden

Daks advertisement, 1951
Advertisement for Daks suits, featuring a couple of chaps sporting checked suits, and smoking pipes. Date: 1951

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