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You never know what may lie inside an advertisement. This Gem is a trade card for Washburn Crosby Company Flour Mills, produced in around 1890 to advertise their Gold Standard Flour. What makes this trade card a Gem is the fascinating folding design: the picture of a traditional windmill on the front of the card…
“You worked blindly and towards an unknown end; but your end was certain.” This beautiful watercolour is from a collection by Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston. The collection consists of a number of watercolours of different windmills, each with poetic anecdotes, which make up a beautiful and moving series exploring the state of milling and…
‘By a piece of singular good fortune, no one was killed.’ This book called A Train Errant shines a light on a little-known aspect of the First World War. The book contains a bound collection of newsletters called The Orderly Review, which were published on board Great War Ambulance Train No.16, which was donated to the war effort by the…
“It was then that she heard the bloodcurdling screams of her stricken husband.” This contemporary sketch was sold following a miller’s brush with death. The caption describes what is happening in the picture, as well as the reason for the sketch: Toot Hill WindmillIn the Parish of Stanford Rivers, Essex,Shattered by Lightning, June 18 1829,This sketch sold…
