Promoting a business is a top priority. These days the internet, television and radio are the likely avenues to a widespread audience but almost a century ago is was just down to the printed word or free gifts with a purchase. The famous biscuit manufacturer, Peek Frean, created tokens to promote their...

Not one, not two but six. Yes six!! A classic design and classic product all wrapped in one. Possibly dating from the 1920's these ceramic mugs have been produced to promote OXO. Each mug has a tapered, fluted body with a waisted foot base. They all have the word "OXO" within a shield motif repeated...

This compact, single volume incorporates all that is required to alliviate symptoms of common ailments using the power of plants. However, on reading the conditions that can be treated and the ingredients of the treatments we high recommend that none of the preparations are created or used in any form....

Legendary guitarist of Queen, Brian May, is also an astrophysicist and leading light in saving British nature. But few people know he is an authority on stereoscopes and 3D imaging so much so that he has re-established the London Stereoscopic Company and developed his own entry level viewer known as...

Legendary guitarist of Queen, Brian May, is also an astrophysicist and leading light in saving British nature. But few people know he is an authority on stereoscopes and 3D imaging so much so that he has re-established the London Stereoscopic Company and developed his own entry level viewer known as...

The last thing on the mind of the heavily pregnant Mrs Miles of St Neots, Cambridgeshire was that she was about to create a UK and eventually a world record. But on 28th November 1935 she did exactly that by giving birth to quadruplets Ann, Ernest, Paul and Michael, who would go onto become the UK's...

Not everything is as you expect and that's the case with this item. On the outside this looks like a double pack of ordinary "Hamilton" playing cards by The United States Playing Card Company of Cincinnati featuring on the reverse a rural scene with traditional costumes - one pack blue and the other...

Do you want your car to be a good - getter up on the coldest morning - to leap from the deepest dumps to the top of its form? Then fit an Exide battery. Forget about the car hook me up to one now! The item depicts a vintage car approaching a tight bend at night with it's lights on. This advertisement...

Surely too good to be true a single health tonic that can cure almost anything from Influenza, Lassitude, Malaria, Anaemia, Sciatica to the dreaded Brain Fag! This paper advertisement was salvaged from a very dilapidated road map of Britain. We are unsure of a precise age but most likely some time from...

A pre-advertisement advertisement stating that a new Lancaster car featuring a Daimler Fluid Transmission is to be launched soon. Taken from the Connoisseur magazine of March 1946, this shows a company heavily involved for 6 years in war work now looking to make a successful return to their peace time...

Do you have 280 to spend on a top of the range Ford motor car? Well that's how much you would have had to spend according to this advertisement taken from The Connoisseur magazine in May 1938. In surprisingly good condition for it's age there is some slight surface blemishes which are hardly noticeable....