Sterling Collection

Sterling Ladies munition workers football team, WW1
The Sterling Ladies (munitioneers) football team, pictured having just defeated the Handley Page Ladies Football Club in a match at Cricklewood in 1918. Date: 1918

Music cover, Down at the Old Bull & Bush, words by Russell Hunting, Percy Krone and Andrew B Sterling, music by Harry Von Tilzer, sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde. Date: 1905

Sparta, Ontario, Canada
The Sterling Bank of Canada and Eakins General Store at Sparta, Ontario

The One Pound Look by Ricardo Brook
Front cover of The Bystander special issue focusing on the fall in the value of the pound during the first half of 1920. Here a rather aristocratic looking gentleman is fashioned out of a pound sign

Advertisement for Swan Pens, by Mabie, Todd and Co. Captioned, Send a Swan!, and Give Swans this Xmas!, with illustrations of ladies pens with rolled gold or sterling silver mountings

Three travelling vanity cases made of crocodile and Morocco leather. Date: 1907

Advert for Mappin and Webb presentation silver ware, 1925
Advert for Mappin & Webb presentation silver ware, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for Sterling toilet Service from Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, London, 1925 showing cloth brush, powder jar, hair brush, dressing comb and hand mirror Date: 1925

Advert for Sterling Premax hornless loud speaker, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for Sterling Primax hornless loud speaker, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert, Sterling Engine Company, Modern Fishing Boat
Advert, Sterling Engine Company, Buffalo, New York State, USA - Modern Fishing Boat with Sterling Dolphin 6 cylinder 300 hp engines. Date: 1931

Advert for Mappin & Webb sterling silver xmas gifts 1927
Mappin & Webbs range of sterling silver Christmas gifts. 1927

Advert for Charles Packer, electro-plate items 1927
Sterling silver afternoon tea set and electro-plate pyrex glass dish, nut dish and crax and an oak whisky barrel. 1927

Christmas present - Dutch doll sugar tongs 1922
Novelty sterling silver Dutch doll sugar tongs with enamelled face, available by Vickery of Regent Street. 1922

Trade Catalogue for Tantalus frames 1930
A choice of fumed oak, mahogany and Princes plate Tantalus frames with finely cut glass decanter bottles and a elegant mahogany or oak cocktail table completely fitted with English cut-glass

Trade Catalogue for decanters, cocktail sets 1930
A choice of Princes plate cocktail trays and shakers with either 6 etched or cut glasses. Different shaped English cut glass decanters with sterling silver mount. 1930

Trade Catalogue for dessert and cake baskets 1930
Selection of sterling silver pierced dessert and cake baskets. 1930

Advert for Mappin & Webb Edwardian items 1907
Selection of Princes plate and sterling silver items from 1907. Date: 1907

Advert for Mappin & Webb luxury items 1916
Varity of sterling silver luxury Christmas gifts for the homefront. 1916

Advert for Mappin & Webb tea & coffee service 1929
Seletion of three different style sterling silver tea and coffee service, with tea pot, sugar basin, cream jug, coffee pot, kettle and stand and tea tray. 1929

Advert for Mappin & Webb sterling silver service 1908 Advert for Mappin & Webb
Advertisement for Mappin & Webb, sterling silver, tea and coffee service. Date: 1908

Advert for Mappin & Webbs dressing cases 1907 Advert for Mappin & Webbs dressing
Two travelling vanity cases made of crocodile and Morocco leather. Date: 1907

Advert for Mappin & Webb Sterling Silver items 1904
Selection of household items from Mappin & Webb, specialists in sterling silver plate. 1904

Mappin & Webb Advertisement, 1895
Advertisement for Mappin & Webbs Sterling Silver and Princes Plate, published in 1895. The items shown include (clockwise from top left)

Advert for Elkington & Co Victorian items 1893
Selection of Victorian sterling silver household items; coffe and tea service with tea kettle, afternoon tea set, fruit dishes, biscuit box, salts bottles, claret jug, scent bottle, cigar case

Advert for Mappin & Webb silver items 1892
Selection of silver sterling work from Mappin & Webb, fluted monteith salt cellars and spoons, renaissance fruit spoon and sifter, sugar basin and sifter, Louis XIV period, richly chased and pierced

Advert for J. C. Vickery luminous & grill-guard watches 1918
Active service wrist watches. Sterling silver high-grade lever wrist watch, with luminous hands and figures. Sterling silver very reliable luminous wrist watch with very detachable grill guard. 1918

The Sterling Companys Womens Football Team, 1917
Photograph of the Sterling Companys Womens Football Team, November 1917. The photograph was taken prior to a match against Harrods Womens Football Team, played at Barnes, South London

Advert for Mappin & Webb unusual presents 1936
If you or your friends are requiring smart and unusual presents.... remember Mapplin & Webb.... Date: 1936

Advert for Mappin & Webb vanity items 1934
Mappin & Webb advertising a variety of items. 1934

Miss Elvira D. Mullens and Mr J. S. Barney
After their wedding ceremony: Miss Elvira D. Mullens and Mr J. S. Barney, the New York Vocalist. Date: 1928

Advert for Mappin & Webb wedding gifts 1935
Suggestions for wedding gifts for Mappin & Webb, Regant Street, London. 1935

Advert for Mappin & Webb christening presents 1935
Jubilee Mark on silver 1935, sterling silver christening presents with relief. Date: 1935

Sterling silver goods, Plate 206, showing salt cellars, muffineers and cutlery. Date: circa 1880s

Sterling silver goods, Plate 207, showing bells, a trowel, bouquet holders, whistles, a dram flask, cutlery and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Sterling silver goods, Plate 205, showing pots, cruet sets, cutlery and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Hookahs and Pipes, Plate 129. Date: circa 1880s

Seletion of sterling silver, electro-plate cutlery 1929
A selection of sterling silver, electro-plate and stainless steel butter, bread, cake knives, cheese scoop, sugar sifter, tea infuser, asparagus tongs, wine cork, crumb scoop, pickle, butter

Advert for Mappin & Webbs Christmas presents 1888
Selection of artistic and useful Christmas presents. 1888

San Marcus Building, Santa Barbara, California, USA
San Marcus Building, State Street, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Date: 1915

City Hall and Opera House, Derby, Connecticut, USA
City Hall and Sterling Opera House, Elizabeth Street, Derby, Connecticut, USA, in October 1905. Date: 1905

Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, USA. Date: circa 1930

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths tea & coffee service
Quailty tea and coffee silver service, for wedding gift. Date: 1927

Broadway and Telegraph Street, Oakland, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Suffragist Frances Sterling. Frances Mary Sterling (1869-1943), member of the london Society for Womens Suffrage, joint Hon. Sec. of the N.U.W.S.S until 1911

Scouts cooking in South Australia
Three Scouting Pack Leaders of the First College Park Group, South Australia, functioning as cooks for a Commissioners Weekend course held at Glenalta, Sterling, 9-10 June 1934. Date: 1934

Advert for Mappin & Webb dressing case 1935
Morocco dressing case, with sterling silver fittings. 1935

John Sterling
JOHN STERLING scholar and writer, greatly liked, friend of leading writers especially Carlyle who wrote a biography. Date: 1806 - 1844

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