Shillings Collection (#5)

Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, Maidenhead
Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, High Street, Maidenhead, with some amazing temporary reductions to three shillings and sixpence, and a four-day turnaround. Date: 20th century

Licence for a mechanically propelled vehicle, otherwise known as a road tax disc, issued by Surrey County Council and valid until 31 December 1951

Cover design, Laugh It Off Annual for 1945, bubbling with sparkling wit and humour. Showing a fun-loving young woman in a giant glass of champagne. Date: 1945

WW1 poster, War Loan, Invest Today
WW1 poster, War Loan, five shillings, Invest Today, apply at nearest Post Office. Date: circa 1916

WW1 poster, War Loan, subscriptions here, five shillings upwards, with a 4.5 per cent interest rate. Date: 1914-1918

WWI Poster, Crush the Germans
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, Lend Your Five Shillings to your Country and Crush The Germans. Date: circa 1916

WWI Poster, Help Your Country
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, Help Your Country, Invest 5 - Today in the War Loan. Date: circa 1916

WWI Poster, Pay Your 5 - and Help Crush the Germans
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, Pay Your 5/- for this [War Loan] and Help Crush the Germans. Date: 1916

Scouts with Coronation programmes
Two Scouts with supplies of Coronation programmes and collection tins at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953

British coins, two Elizabeth II shillings for 1956 and 1963. With two different lion, shield and crown designs on the reverse. Date: 1956, 1963

British coins, two George VI shillings for 1945 and 1948. With a lion and crown on the reverse, showing two different styles. Date: 1945, 1948

British coin, George VI florin
British coin, a George VI florin (two shillings). Date: 1948

Money and munitions by G. H. Davis
Money and munitions: an illustrated armament catalogue. Pictures showing the various costs of the weapons used during the Second World War, ranging from a battleship at 8, 000

British coins, three George V shillings for 1923, 1926 and 1929. With a lion and crown on the reverse, showing a slightly different style for 1929 compared with the earlier two. Date: 1920s

British coins, three George V florins (two shillings) for 1921, 1922 and 1923. Date: early 1920s

Cartoon, British father wheeling pram, WW1
Cartoon of a British father wheeling a pram past a Post Office during the First World War. He is looking at the War News of battle casualties, and comments: What a life

Liberty shawl
Shawl in Liberty colourings from their own works at Merton Abbey. Georgette ground with embossed design in velvet, hand coloured

Liberty jumper
Jumper in hand-printed crepe de chine, with collar and facings of plain silk, from Libertys own works at Merton Abbey. Available in a variety of designs and colours, costing 3

Liberty silk shawl
Silk shawl hand printed at Liberty & Cos own works at Merton Abbey. Reproduction of an old Indian design, 56 inches square, including fringe, costing 2, 17 shillings and sixpence. Date: 20th century

Advertising material displayed on a car, with a man sitting alongside. One poster reads: Stop this car for a free drive, and the other reads: See the seaside from the air

Pit Door / La Porte du Parterre November 9 1784
Artokoloro

Agricultural workers and their families at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, in the week that admittance was one shilling (5p)

This ticket will admit one person into the... on the day of Mr. Lunardis ascension, price three shillings. Admission ticket to one of Vincent Lunardi early balloon ascensions, probably from London

Advertisement for silhouette portraits, Leicester
Advertisement for silhouette portraits by silhouette artist H.L. Oakley MBE, at Joseph Johnson and Company Limited, Market Street and Belvoir Street, Leicester

Advertisement for silhouettes, Jenners of Edinburgh
Advertisement for Jenners of Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, offering silhouette portraits by the well-known silhouette artist H. L. Oakley MBE

Shock Proof Car Clock
A shock proof car clock (with luminous figures), which adheres to the dashboard by means of its rubber casing. Only 7 shillings and 9 pence from Harrods of London. Date: 1930s

International currency

Workhouse Teachers Salary Receipt, Whitehaven
A receipt for the quarterly salary payment of twelve pounds and ten shillings. It is from the Whitehaven Union, signed by workhouse teacher William Benson on 24 December 1856

TIN MOULDS
Tin moulds were quite a lot cheaper than copper moulds, around 5 shillings apiece; though even that is quite a lot by todays standards

Emigrants waiting to board ship, Liverpool, 1907
Illustration showing European emigrants, waiting on the quayside at Liverpool to board a ship to America, 1907. These majority of these emigrants travelled third class

Ready-To-Wear Suit
For the swift service of those who want something supreme and smart at a moments notice - and it costs only 55 shillings !

The Strawberry Trade - pottling
Engraving by Ebenezer Landells showing a rural scene with women pottling strawberries. Pottles were small, basket-like containers which would be carried in great quantities by women from Middlesex

Glover Makers 1932
Two cottage glove makers in the Cotswold village of Ashton Keynes, working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and earning a mere 28 shillings a week during the 1930s Depression

Tom Thumb Cash Register
The handsome " Tom Thumb" cash register is priced at twenty- one pounds and ten shillings

Gas Light Cooker 1935
NEW COOKERS FOR OLD : Mr Therms Special Christmas Offer for the latest enamel cooker with Regulo control for 20 quarterly payments of 12 shillings

Maple Brass Bedstead
A brass bedstead from Maple s, Londons best-known furniture store : cost, 38 shillings to 52s 6d according to width : you tighten the mattress with a handle

March / Pension Increase
30 old age pensioners marched from St Pauls to the House of Commons to demand an increase from 10 shillings to 1 a week. Here they gather for a chat before the march

Surburban Semi
An English suburban semi- detached house in Dudding Hill, Neasden, north London, available for 10 down and 10 shillings 7 pence per week for 15 year"

Mens Combinations
Passion-killers for men ! Picture your boy-friend in these Aertex combinations (open all down front) down to either knees or ankles. Prices from 7 to 14 shillings

Mens Vest and Drawers
Aertex half-sleeve vest and trunk drawers - this two-piece garment suit is priced from seven shillings and sixpence

Using a Good Companion
This lady is using an Imperial Good Companion Model portable, which cost her nineteen pounds and fifteen shillings, including the carrying case

Gifts for the Troops
Card acknowledging a gift of two shillings by Arthur Bray, as part of a scheme whereby schoolchildren send Christmas Gifts to Our brave Soldiers and Sailors

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