Sold Collection (page 10)

SUGAR OVEN
Household sugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house then baked in the oven

Aynho / Apricot Village
Cottagers in this Northants village grow apricots on the walls of their cottages. When the fruit is ripe, the fruit is harvested, sold and the money used to pay the rent

Horses Exported 1555
Swedish horses are exported by ship, to be sold in other countries

Devilish Funny Ha Ha
In Vienna statuettes of the devil are sold on 1 December but when an artist makes a life-size one for a client, returning late one night, he jumps from the window

Cucumber / Cries of London
Green and large cucumbers sold from a wheelbarrow in the street

Traveller Ad 1900
Advertisement for " The Traveller", sold not only in the United Kingdom, but also " in every Travel and Tourist Centre throughout the World through Thomas Cook"

HOUSE SOLD / 1970S
A family of four view their new house which still has the " Sold" sign outside

Joseph Sold by Brothers
He is sold by his brothers to a caravan of merchants, whereby he is taken to Egypt

Pineapples Sold, London
The West India Companys great sale of pineapples draws a crowd in London

Billingsgate / M connell 2
BILLINGSGATE FISH MARKET The fish sold by auction

Cromptons Flu Powder
Cromptons flu powder, sold for 2d

Turnips & Carrots Sold
A woman sells turnips and carrots carried in panniers strapped to a donkey

Britannia Cunarder
Passenger liner of the Cunard Line which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ends her career sunk as a target ship

Romeo & Juliet / Book
Frontispiece for book of Shakespeares Romeo & Juliet which was to be sold at Cuthbert Burbys shop near the exchange

Pineapples Sold by Slice
A trader selling Pineapples - a penny a slice from a barrow when this fruit was still a rarity in Britain

Flag Day Flags
Flags sold on behalf of the YMCA and the Red Cross (possibly with St Johns, hence the unusual shape)

A Ship Shop
The Ship souvenir shop: Toys, gifts and radios etc. are sold. Two little girls admire a cuddly dog. A couple leaf through postcards. A cricketer and his pal are at the door

Street Market Dakar
An extremely uninformative photo of a street market at Dakar - almost everyone is turning their back on the photographer and its hard to see what is being sold

B and W Minstrels
Five black-and-white minstrel scrapos, still joined together as they were sold as a set

Tuberculosis Stamp - 5
French postage stamp sold in aid of the fight against tuberculosis

YMCA FLAG
Flag sold in the streets in aid of the lodgings provided by the Young Mens Christian Association

Joseph is Sold
Joseph is sold by his brothers to some Egyptian merchants

Hunting Alphabet - O
O for the young oss some Coper has sold - look at his teeth and you ll see that hes old

Paper at Turkestan
Ppaper of the kind we know today is thought to have been invented in Turkestan in the 6th century : here it is being sold at Samarkand in present- day Uzbekistan

Boys Sold as Sweeps
Children sold by their parents to work as chimneysweeps

Pope Benedictus IX (2)
POPE BENEDICTUS IX He sold the papacy to Gregorius VI, but later resumed the papacy for a few further months, causing great confusion

Pope Benedictus IX (1)
POPE BENEDICTUS IX He sold the papacy to Gregorius VI, but later resumed the papacy for a few further months, causing great confusion

TALLY MAN
A TALLY MAN in a cottage - a house-to-house trader who sold goods on instalment, keeping a tally of what his customers owed him - an early form of buying on credit

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