Thrift Collection

Wartime pig food poster
We Want Your Kitchen Waste - poster encouraging the saving of food scraps for use as pig food, to be collected by the council. It also feeds poultry

Thrift, Armeria maritima (Statice armeria). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Instructions for creating decorative patches to repair holes in fabric, with ideas for motifs. Date: 1943

Prickly thrift, Acantholimon glumaceum. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe

Sea lavender, Limonium sinuatum (Purple-cup t statice or thrift, Statice sinuata). Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis The Botanical

Egyptian thrift, Statice aegyptiaca. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1823

Curtis British Entomology Plate 297
Hemiptera. Chorosoma arundinis (Sea-reed Cimex) = Chorosoma schillingii (the original generic description) [Plant: Armeria maritima (Common Thrift)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 47
Coleoptera: Pogonus burrellii = Pogonus luridipennis (Burrellian Pogonus) [Plant: Statice limonium (Lavender Thrift)] Date: 1824-39

Reducing the Gas Bill
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a Scottish man blowing into his gas supply in an attempt to reduce bills watched by his son in a tartan kilt

Thrift flowered heath, Erica rubella.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

Clincher tyres advertisement, WW1 - Reginald McKenna
Advertisement for Clincher Tyres during the First World War featuring a caricature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginald McKenna who says we must economise

He is piling up his Thrift Stamps, are you? Buy Thrift Stamps. Poster showing a squirrel hiding nuts in a tree. Date 1918

Thrift stamps. We licked them at the front, you lick them at the back. Poster showing a soldier pointing to German soldiers, on the left, and savings stamps, on the right. Date 1915

Advertisement for Black & White Whisky
Advertisement for Black & White Scotch Whisky, featuring a fine silhouette of the Old Laird of Dumbiedikes passing advise to his son Jock (and also to Mr Novit)

Poster, Join the Thrift Column (a play on words -- not the Fifth Column!). Advertising the Post Office Savings Bank. Showing a long queue of people waiting to open their accounts. 20th century

Armeria Plantaginea taproot
Taproot of the Armeria Plantaginea (Thrift)

Armeria Plantaginea root
Root of the Armeria Plantaginea (Thrift)

Acantholimon Glumaceum (Prickly Thrift), a perennial alpine plant of the Plumbaginaceae (plumbago or leadwort) family, with bright pink or purple flowers in the summer, best suited to rock gardens

The Economy Campaign
In the new climate of thrift during World War One, this family economises by eating pets, fashioning a pram out of a soapbox and drowning the family dog

Coupon Allocation 1940S
Household management : A housewife and her adult daughter have a cup of tea and a cigarette together as they work out their coupon allocation around the table

Mother Skinflint / Thrift
MOTHER SKINFLINT, THE THRIFTY HOUSEWIFE You re a genius for saving! Yes, everyone knows. You would skin a flint and starve the crows!

Plants / Armeria Maritima
Thrift, Sea-Pink, Ladys Cushion

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