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Background imageSnobbish Collection: The Best People, by Gray and Hopgood

The Best People, by Gray and Hopgood
The Best People, a comedy by David Gray and Avery P Hopgood. First produced in England at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, March 1926, and later the same month at the Lyric Theatre, London

Background imageSnobbish Collection: Comic postcard, Man with a glass of beer on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with a glass of beer on the beach Date: 20th century

Background imageSnobbish Collection: Comic postcard, not the particular sort of maid Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, not the particular sort of maid Date: 20th century

Background imageSnobbish Collection: Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1

Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1
Cartoon, German intellectual women as seen by the French. Date: 1916

Background imageSnobbish Collection: We are IT - a (slightly unlikely) couple of fashionistas

We are IT - a (slightly unlikely) couple of fashionistas
We are IT - a (slightly unlikely) couple each totally confident they are displaying the height of style. They both have everything they want. Date: 1915

Background imageSnobbish Collection: An Extra-Special Romance by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon

An Extra-Special Romance by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a police officer initially snobbish about the special constable who is accompanying him on his beat

Background imageSnobbish Collection: Our Superior Inferiors - an upper class lady charity worker

Our Superior Inferiors - an upper class lady charity worker
Lady de Tomkyn (at Cabbage Charity Sale): " How on earth are we to clean these pototoes? I DARE not ask Simpson!" A well-meaning lady hoping to help out at a charity sale

Background imageSnobbish Collection: A Dowager during the London Season

A Dowager during the London Season
Sketch of a dowager, one of the cliched characters of the traditional London Season, perhaps acting as a chaperone and peering through her lorgnette

Background imageSnobbish Collection: The Tatler front cover, London Season Number - old school ti

The Tatler front cover, London Season Number - old school ti
Front cover of The Tatler, heralding in the London Season for 1959 and featuring a selection of old school ties from notable public schools, asking the question, Can you spot an escort by his tie

Background imageSnobbish Collection: Intellectual child cynic by Frank R Grey

Intellectual child cynic by Frank R Grey
An irritatingly intellectual little boy (called by the cartoonist, Repulsive Rupert) sits reading some hefty tomes at a table and says to his mother, who is darning socks

Background imageSnobbish Collection: The Etonian who had to play by H. M. Bateman

The Etonian who had to play by H. M. Bateman
Humorous illustration by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman entitled, The Etonian Who Was Asked to Play Nuts and May showing a snobbish boy in Eton suit looking aghast

Background imageSnobbish Collection: POSH GROUP

POSH GROUP
A rather snobbish looking group of spectators, well-to- do parents and relatives of boys taking part in the games on Sports Day at Cheltenham Boys College, Glos. England. Date: 1929


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