Sterling Collection (page 2)

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

Major Thomas Skinner
Major THOMAS SKINNER British soldier who did sterling service in India and Afghanistan, but died young as a result of his efforts. Date: 1800? - 1843

Advert for Handbags at The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company
A seletion of clutch bags made of a variety of materials, polished crocodile, pebble grain and polished morocco all on sale at The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company. Date: 1931

Professor Sterling in Way down East. Date c1898

A womens war workers football match at Barnes, 1917. The upper picture shows play by the Harrods Company forwards, and the lower one, the Sterling firms team

Hair Brush Sets - 2
Dressing table sets, comprising hair-brush, clothes brush and mirror in a choice of tasteful colours, in fine enamel and sterling silver, from Mappin & Webb. Date: 1930

Hair Brush Sets
Dressing table sets, comprising hair-brush and mirror in a choice of tasteful colours, in fine enamel and sterling silver, from Mappin & Webb. Date: 1930

Hair Brush Sets on sale at Mappin & Webb

How John Bull Felt
After surviving the hundred pages of cartoons and skits showered upon him in our recent Special " Falling Pound" Number

A Sovereign Remedy
John Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920

Will it Come to This
A possible scenario due to the falling value of the pound against the dollar in 1920. A brashly dressed cigar-smoking American changes a dollar at a bank and when asked how he would like it, replies

Nero
A rather drunk looking man smoking a pipe and playing an accordian sits ignoring the British pound note beside him going up in flames

Golden Grain
A satirical picture of an American reaper with a huge scythe representing the rate of exchange being sharpened with a lathe representing sterling currency

Silber and Flemings Silver, Jewellery and Clock Departments
Engraving showing the interior of Silber and Flemings sterling silver plate, gold and silver jewellery and watch and clock departments in their Wood Street store, London, 1884

Spot of Gardening
This dependable looking chap partakes of a spot of gardening and what better to keep his chest warm than this knitted two-tone waistcoat using basket weave stitch

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