Food and beverage advertising
PLEASE NOTE:
Those marked with *VM are not currently physically mounted. We have suggested a suitable colour, but we will mount in a colour to suit you (within reason!). Please use our order/enquire form to request this and for any other queries.
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Boudoir Biscuits
French ad for cocktail biscuits, from Plaisir de France
Date: c1953
Picture size: 7.5" x 11.25"
Mount: 12" x 16", sandstone
Bird's Custard
- always trumps
Vintage advert
Date: 1927
Picture size: 8.5" x 13"
Mount: 14" x 18", cream
McVitie's Digestives
Date: 1932
Picture size: 9" x 13"
Mount: 14" x 18", light olive green
Bovril
"A little Bovril keeps the doctor away"
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Date: 1920 Picture size: 9.25" x 14.25" Mount: 14" x 18", Black (VM) |
Ovaltine
Early and rare advert. A little grubby with faint crease marks, but looks fine behind glass. Double mounted.
Date: c1920
Picture size: 5.75" x 8"
Mount: 11" x 14",
Mid green/sahara
Ryvita
Makes you fit and keeps you slim.
Date: 1936
Picture size: 7.5" x 10"
Mount: 11" x 14", Cream (VM)
Oxo
"The Mighty Atom"
Vintage advert
Date: 1924
Picture size: 9.25" x 14"
Mount: 14" x 18", Hussar Blue
New Berry Fruits
A common gift in the '50s and '60s
Date: 1952
Picture size: 8" x 10.75"
Mount: 12" x 16", Mid green
Batchelors
English canned fruits and vegetables; Viyella ad on reverse
Crease, bottom left
Date: 1943
Picture size: 7.5" x 10.5"
Mount: 12" x 16", Cream (VM)
Bovril
"Don't forget the Bovril!" Illustrated by Tom Purvis
Date: 1924
Picture size: 9" x 14
Mount: 14" x 18",Cream
Crawford's Shortbread
Ad for Crawford's White Heather Shortbread. Foxed round edges and a little grubby (was a back page of Punch almanack)
Date: 1934
Picture size: 7.5" x 10"
Mount: 11" x 14", cream (VM)
Schweppes
Sport in Schweppshire. Edward the Confessor plays golf.
Date: 1951
Picture size: 7.25" x 9.75"
Mount: 11" x 14, dark blue
Cadbury
Marlborough assortment, made at Bournville
Date: 1926
Picture size: 8.75" x 12.75"
Mount: 12" x 16", cream (VM)
Crawford's Biscuits
Tartan shortbread. Manufactured in Edinburgh
Date: 1937
Picture size: 7.25" x 10"
Mount: 11" x 14", Sage green
Crawford's shortbread
Austerity mention as just post-war.
Date: 1949
Picture size: 7.5" x 10.5"
Mount: 11" x 14", Post box red
Cake Royal
J & J Beaulah Ltd, Boston, England. Early advert.
Date: c1921
Picture size: 4.5" x 7.25"
Mount: 10" x 12",Wedgwood blue
Bird's Custard
"Knowing Bird's - aren't we?"
Date: 1926
Picture size: 8.75" x 13.25"
Mount: 14" x 18", Cream (VM)
Mayfair Toffees
Made in Sunderland
Date: 1955
Picture size: 8" x 11"
Mount: 12" x 16", Sandstone
Mackintosh's
Carnival assortment.
Date: 1935
Picture size: 9.25" x 13.5"
Mount: 14" x 18", Maroon
Mackintosh's
Christmas de luxe.
Date: 1934
Picture size: 9" x 13"
Mount: 14" x 18",Cream
Colman's Mustard
"Still indispensable."
Date: 1919
Picture size: 5.25" x 8.5"
Mount: 10" x 12", Cream (VM)
Colman's Mustard
"The condiment for beaf-eaters."
Date: 1920
Picture size: 5" x 8"
Mount: 10" x 12", Cream (VM)
Ovaltine
"And so to bed ..."
Date: 1935
Picture size: 9" x 12.75"
Mount: 12" x 16", Red
Oxo
"Just right". Little grubby but largely hidden by mount (it is a back page)
Date: 1933
Picture size: 9" x 13"
Mount: 14" x 18", Cream (VM)
The photos of the prints are not proportionately sized, so please check the measurements given. Picture size is approximate, though overall mount size is pretty accurate.
Any noticeable marks or creases are noted in the description.
Mount colour is as accurate as possible, but of course may show up differently on different computers.