Thumbs Collection

Hoffmann / Suck-A-Thumb
THE STORY OF LITTLE SUCK-A- THUMB The great, long, red-legg d scissor-man cuts off Conrads thumbs

Gladiators in the Arena
Gladiators in the arena

WW2 poster, Wings for Victory, Lets Go, National Savings. Date: circa 1944

Farm Workers and Tractor
A group of farm workers gathered round a tractor, some are waving at the camera, one gives a thumbs up. Date: late 1960s

WW2 - The Champion Book For Boys
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's annual, The Champion Book For Boys. The image shows a Royal Air Force pilot giving a big thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

Wartime Mars Bar Advertisement
A wartime advertisement promoting the Mars bar, The stuff to give the troops. The illustration portrays a British soldier giving a thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

Tiggerty-Boo! Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Tiggerty-Boo! the force's thumbs up song, by Hal Hallifax. Broadcast and recorded by Geraldo and his orchestra

Give Them The Wings For Victory
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Give Them The Wings For Victory, words and music by Harry Staite and George A. Barnett. The image portrays a smiling Royal Air Force pilot giving a thumbs up

WW2 - Boy's Own Paper March 1941
An illustrated front cover of a WW2 children's paper, Boys Own, March 1941. The image shows two British Royal Air Force pilots giving each other a thumbs up from different fighter planes

WW2 Greetings Card, Thumbs Up!
A WW2 Home Guard themed greetings card, the illustration portrays a British serviceman giving a double thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Christmas Postcard, We Can Take It!
A WW2 Christmas themes postcard, the illustration portrays some British servicemen of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and the Army, giving thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Christmas Card, Albuhera
A WW2 Christmas card issued by the Middlesex Regiment at Albuhera, the image portrays a solder giving a double thumbs up. Date: 1940

WW2 Christmas Card, The Best Present!
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration portraying a jolly British soldier popping out of a gift box with a thumbs up! Date: circa 1940s

WW2 British Marine And Royal Navy Sailor
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a British marine standing with polishing gear

Keep smiling! Sheels are piling, Men are joining, Women toiling, All are working, Nothing shirking, So.... Thumbs Up! Date: circa 1916

STEVENSON / POEMS
Picture Books in Winter: Summer fading, winter comes; Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, & the picture story books. Date: First published: 1885

RURAL GENDARMERIE / 1930
A French policeman stands outside his rural gendarmerie. He stands waiting for some action with his thumbs tucked into his belt. Date: 1930

Stunt woman cannonball loses her knickers
Liza Knight, an 18-year-old stunt performer from Leicester, felt quite a draught after being shot from a cannon during a rehearsal

The punishment of Adoni-Bezek, a Canaanite king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, was attacked by the armies of Judah and Simeon and suffered the same fate

Agnes Richardson, Lots of Luck
Agnes Richardson, Fums Up, Lots of Luck. 20th century

Welsh Crwth - Rare Musical Instrument
Welsh Crwth - a very rare musical instrument - this example is held in a private collection on Anglesey. Hollowed out of a single block of wood, with the soundboard glued

Bathing Beauty / Periscope
A bathing beauty thumbs her nose at a periscope: " Goodness, I m not afraid of that - I ve seen too many in my time!"

Statue at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar Date: 2016

WW2 - 1st day cover - I m working with Uncle Sam. Date: 1943

Christmas card in the shape of gloves
Christmas card in the shape of a pair of overlapping orange gloves. Date: circa 1890s

WW2 Christmas card, jolly sailor giving the thumbs up. Date: 1941

WW2 greetings card, smiling soldier
WW2 pop-up greetings card, smiling soldier in khaki uniform. Date: circa 1942

WW2 greetings card, Thumbs up
WW2 pop-up greetings card, Thumbs up! Date: circa 1942

Fums Up lucky mascot, WW1
Fums Up, one of a number of charms or mascots produced during the First World War and designed to bring good luck. Date: 1916

Thumbs down!. Illustration shows a skeleton labeled Death as a gladiator standing over a Sick Person; before giving the death stroke

Booklet, Springboks during Second World War
Pages from a booklet, A Picture Story of the Union of South Africa, produced by the Ministry of Information. Showing South African troops, nicknamed Springboks, during the Second World War. 1940s

Lear / Nonsense / The Nile
There was an Old Man of the Nile, who sharpened his nails with a file, Till he cut out his thumbs, and said calmly, This comes of sharpening ones nails with a file! Date: First published: 1846

4000-lb Bomb being loaded into a Lancaster, Britain; Second
Photograph showing a 4000-lb Cookie bomb being loaded into an Avro Lancaster of the Royal Air Force, at an airfield somewhere in Britain, 1944

Thumbs & Toes Cut Off
Adoni-Bezek, king of Jeru- salem, is defeated, captured, and punished by having his thumbs and big toes cut off : but spare your tears, thats just what he did to others

Thumbing Ones Nose
She thumbs her nose

A Cheeky Chick
A cheeky chick thumbs his beak at another who is putting on airs

Thumbing a Lift
A young man hitch hiker, thumbs a lift from a Denis McCarthy lorry

King in Streets
Top-hatted citizens wave their hats, a cloth-capped worker thumbs his nose as Friedrich Wilhelm IV, king of Prussia, rides through the streets of Berlin to the University

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