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Wartime pig food posterWe 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)
Instructions for creating decorative patches to repair holes in fabric, with ideas for motifs. Date: 1943
Prickly thrift, Acantholimon glumaceum
Sea lavender, Limonium sinuatum (Purple-cup t statice or thrift, Statice sinuata)
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 297Hemiptera. Chorosoma arundinis (Sea-reed Cimex) = Chorosoma schillingii (the original generic description) [Plant: Armeria maritima (Common Thrift)] Date: 1824-39
Curtis British Entomology Plate 47Coleoptera: Pogonus burrellii = Pogonus luridipennis (Burrellian Pogonus) [Plant: Statice limonium (Lavender Thrift)] Date: 1824-39
Reducing the Gas BillComic 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
Advertisement for Black & White WhiskyAdvertisement for Black & White Scotch Whisky
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 McKennaAdvertisement for Clincher Tyres during the First World War featuring a caricature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
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
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 taprootTaproot of the Armeria Plantaginea (Thrift)
Armeria Plantaginea rootRoot 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 CampaignIn 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 1940SHousehold 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 / ThriftMOTHER SKINFLINT, THE THRIFTY HOUSEWIFE You re a genius for saving! Yes, everyone knows. You would skin a flint and starve the crows!
Plants / Armeria MaritimaThrift, Sea-Pink, Ladys Cushion