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Dandelion Clock & PrayerA dandelion clock is used as a metaphor for measuring your life by loss and not by gain
Wishing chair, Giants Causeway, Ireland
The Wishing Well, Upwey - early 1900s
The Wishing Well, Upwey near Weymouth
WW2 Royal Air Force Greetings CardA small WW2 greetings card wishing the recipient good luck. The card is complete with a Royal Air Force blue ribbon and an attached metallic horse shoe. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 Greetings Card, Touch Wood!A small WW2 greetings card wishing the recipient good luck. The card is complete with a red, white and blue ribbon and the shape of a ship made out of wood. Touch wood for luck! Date: circa 1940s
WW2 Spitfire Greetings CardA small WW2 greetings card wishing the recipient good luck. The illustration shows some crossed Union Jack and Royal Air Force flags, the card has a metallic Spitfire fighter plane attached
WW2 Good Luck Greetings CardA small WW2 greetings card wishing the recipient good luck through the imagery of a black cat, the card includes a metallic horseshoe to represent the letter C in Luck. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 Christmas Card, Royal Navy SeagullsA WW2 Christmas greetings card, the illustration shows a procession of seagulls in flight, wearing sailor hats, wishing the recipient good luck. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 Birthday Card, Bags Of Good LuckA WW2 birthday greetings card, wishing the recipient good luck with the presence of black cats. The image shows a smiling General Post Office worker delivering the mail. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 Greetings Card, Westland LysandersA WW2 greetings card complete with a red ribbon, wishing the recipient the best of luck. The illustration shows a trio of Westland Lysander British army cooperation aircraft in flight
WW2 Greetings Card, Black CatA WW2 greetings card wishing good fortune through the symbology of black cats and horseshoes. The cat is wearing a tin hat. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 Greetings Card, Good LuckA WW2 greetings card wishing good fortune, of which there is no rationing! The image shows a cat shopkeeper showing his stock of horseshoes. Date: circa 1940s
Wishing Well at Upwey, near Weymouth, Dorset - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J
The Queen gave him a glass of the richest cordialIllustration, The Queen gave him a glass of the richest cordial, the Wishing Cup, by Muriel Baines Date: 20th century
Wishing Pool at Topkapi PalaceThe Wishing Pool at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1975
Christmas fold-out greetings card - playing card king - Wishing you Good Bridge this Christmas. Date: circa 1937
Postcard design - Wishing you Luck, as the new term beginsPostcard design - Heres Wishing you Luck, as the new term begins. A schoolboy walking off for the first day at school. Date: circa 1937
The Wishing Cap, by Minnie AspreyIf I the wishing cap could find, I should want the funniest things! by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918
Locations connected with the Battle of Culloden, ScotlandLocations connected with the Battle of Culloden (1746), near Inverness, Scotland - Well of the Dead, Cairn and Graves of the Clans, Wishing Well, Cairn, Cumberland Stone, Culloden Cottage
Three dogs playing cards on a New Year cardThree dogs playing cards at a table on a New Year card -- Wishing you all good fortune. (1 of 2) circa 1890s
The Wishing Well, Upwey, Dorset1906
Whats left?, woman and children waiting for leftoversA woman and a group of children wait for leftovers at a fishmonger and poulterers shop. A well-to-do mother and daughter are seen leaving the shop
ZEPPELIN PUB SIGNA public house in Germany which, wishing to be very up- to-date, adopted a zeppelin as a pub sign. The old sign of the Post-horn can still be seen hanging above it! Date: 1930s
Cartoon, A Red Study (Cardinal Manning)Cartoon, A Red Study -- HENRY EDWARD MANNING, Cardinal Manning. Date: 1875
Southend - Never Never Land - The Wishing WellSouthend - Never Never Land wishing well, with wish makers and wish fishers. Date: circa 1935
San Toy, musical comedy - wishing you good luck and merry times. circa early 1900s
Wishing Chair, Giants Causeway - a close in view of a column structure. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Bushmills). Date: circa early 1900s
WW2 Christmas card with plane and crewWW2 pop-up Christmas card with plane and crew -- wishing you the best of luck. Date: circa 1942
Girl and boy in historical costume on a greetings card - Wishing you well. Date: circa 1900s
Children with snowballs on a Christmas card -- Wishing you fun and jollity. Date: circa 1900s
Handmade card in the shape of a wishing wellHandmade greetings card in the shape of a wishing well, with a handle to turn to make the red bucket appear. Date: circa 1890s
Three angels answer the prayers of the mysterious woman Date: circa 1890s
Five members of the West Indies Auxiliary Territorial ServicPhotograph of five members of the West Indies Auxiliary Territorial Service sitting on a military vehicle, 1943-1947 (c).In the early stages of the Second World War black Caribbean women wishing to
An elevated and spectacular view of The Wishing Arch, Portan elevated and spectacular view of The Wishing Arch, Portrush, a eroded cliff formation. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Portrush). Date: circa early 1900s
Wishing Arch and Dunluce, Whiterocks, Portrush - a high level view of an eroded cliff arch with a glimpse of Dunluce castle and a continuing rugged coastline
Wishing Arch, Whiterocks, Portrush - An elevated view of an coastal eroded archway. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Portrush). Date: circa early 1900s
Lady Wishing for ChildA would-be mother gazes at a picture of a baby and wishes that she, too, could have one Date: circa 1840
Wishing you a delightful timeBoys and girls in period costume with bunches of flowers. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1903
Little girl with pug dog on a cutout greetings cardLittle girl with a pug dog in a cradle on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s
Aesthetic young man on New Year cardAesthetic young man on a New Year card: A most intensely utter & ecstatic New Year. Date: circa 1890s
Aesthetic young woman on New Year cardAesthetic young woman on a New Year card: May your New Year be quite intensely too too! Date: circa 1890s
Aesthetic young woman on Christmas cardAesthetic young woman playing a guitar on a Christmas card: Wishing you a quite too rapturously utter Christmas. Date: circa 1890s
Wishing well, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, MexicoThe wishing well at Agua Caliente, a popular leisure centre in Tijuana, Mexico, with a woman drawing water. Date: 1930
View of Hotel, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, MexicoView of the Hotel from the Casino, showing the wishing well on the left, at Agua Caliente, a popular leisure centre in Tijuana, Mexico. Date: 1930
WW2 birthday card, Wishing I could walk beside you. Date: circa 1942
Testing the Heart by Edmund BlampiedA young woman in peasant dress plays " He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" with a dandelion clock. Date: 1914
WW2 greetings card, Best of LuckWW2 greetings card, Wishing you the Best of Luck, showing a soldier, a sailor and an airman with flags. Date: circa 1942
Ramonas Marriage Place, San Diego, California, USAWishing Well at Ramonas Marriage Place (Casa de Estudillo), Old San Diego, California, USA. It is an historic adobe house, built by early settlers in 1827
Naval Recruiting Officer and Actor - WWI humourNaval Recruiting Officer: And what experience have you had. Actor (wishing to join): Quite considerable. I was two years a midshipman in HMS Pinafore
Ciss on Rose Day - WWI postcardCiss on Rose Day. Won t you buy my pretty flower. Caricature of Ciss. Includes card saying Happy Christmas with pressed leaf and ribbon (one leaf missing). Card on verso reads To Ciss
New Year Greetings 1911 / 1912 Wishing Wealth in year aheadNew Year Greetings Postcard wishing the recipient wealth and success in the year ahead. Sent from the model in this shot - Bell Dixon. Date: 1911
Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering a letterChristmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering good wishes. Traditionally chimney sweeps used to go door to door wishing (and hopefully bringing) folk good luck
Actors discuss rates of payFirst Budding Actor (to second budding actor) - " Oh yes, you hear about those salaries of Twenty-five and thirty shillings, but you never get em." Date: 1901
Boy wishes good cheer to all at ChristmasWishing good cheer and a Happy Home A young boy getting stuck into liquid Christmas Cheer and hoping the feeling is mutual throughout the household!! Date: 1908
Young GirlCharming illustration of a young Russian girl by Elizabeth Bem. Wish!! Date: 1909
Three children welcome in the New YearThree children crowd around the window as a little sprite brings a note wishing them a happy new year. Date: c. 1920
Lothair and InnocentThe Holy Roman Emperor LOTHAIR II, wishing to secure the good will of the Papacy, leads pope INNOCENT II in procession into Rome Date: 1131
Four children on a birthday postcard
Dog and Xmas GreetingA dog lies holding a card wishing people a bright and happy Christmas, a flower is pinned to the card for decoration. 1890
Good Luck postcardA Czechoslovakian Good Luck postcard, featuring a small girl sat in a barrel holding a bottle of sparkling wine (and spilling a glass of the same), surrounded by large four-leafed clovers
A Shoeshine boy - New Years CardShoeshine boy from Algeria, holding a bunch of flowers, wishing the cards recipient a Happy 1906 !
Ireland - Greetings CardA greeting card from Ireland (interestingly depicted as one country)
Hungarian SympathyAll Europe is in a state of revolution this year : the Hungarians express their sympathy with the French republicans, wishing they too could discard their rulers
India Naini TalA popular summer resort for those wishing to escape the heat of the Plains
Fable / Two LizardsTHE TWO LIZARDS: two lizards were bemoaning their fate as lowly creatures, & wishing they d been born proud stags, when hounds tore apart the very stag they d admired
Fable / Lion, Wolf & FoxTHE LION, THE WOLF AND THE FOX: An old lion, wishing to find a cure, summons his animals. The wolf slanders the fox, but finds he comes off worst in the end
Chester City Steps 1930SThe Wishing Steps, Chester, Cheshire, England. If you want to make a wish, you must run up the whole flight of steps, then down and then up again, all in one breath!
French Troops Off to WarA poignant scene, showing two young women saying goodbye to French soldiers as they march enthusiastically away to the Western Front
Christmas Card DogA dog holds a card wishing people a joyous Christmas. A large flower decorates the card
Racial / China / Cut PigtailMany young Chinese, wishing to westernise themselves, cut their pigtails
Tortoise & Two DucksTHE TORTOISE & TWO DUCKS A tortoise wishing to travel is flown by grasping a stick in its mouth, supported by two ducks; the foolish tortoise speaks and plummets to earth
Using Hand SignalsThe driver of this car is using hand signals to indicate that he is pulling out or wishing to turn right!
