Cost Collection

Schneider Trophy Air Race
Souvenir programme cover design, Schneider Trophy Contest. Date: 12 September 1931

Mount Pleasant Hotel, Kings Cross, London
The Mount Pleasant Hotel at the corner of Kings Cross Road and Calthorpe Street, Central London. The building was originally erected in 1894 as one of Londons six Rowton Houses - large

Jersey Airways Poster
Jersey Airways Ltd poster, showing a passenger biplane flying from the south coast of Britain to Jersey. Listing duration and costs of flights from London and Portsmouth. 20th century

New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars. Date 1942 Aug.?

This cost a pretty figure by Merlin Enabnit
Pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979) posed provocatively in her underwear while examining a string of pearls. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) French singer in her dressing room at Alexandra Palace before taking part in a BBC cabaret show called Cafe Continental

Battle of Salamanca
Wellington decisively defeats the French under Marmont at Salamanca, destroying the French army at relatively little cost

Soho, London - NCP car park, Brewer Street W1
Soho, London - NCP car park, list of charges, Brewer Street W1. 1973

Mormon Temple
The Mormon Temple, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah built 1893 at a cost of nearly $4 million !!!

Map of London Underground railway, Hampstead Tube
Map of London Underground railway extension, highlighting the recently opened Hampstead Tube (Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway), branching out to Golders Green and Highgate. Date: 1907

Advert for the purhcase of a house in Golders Green (engraving)
609537 Advert for the purhcase of a house in Golders Green (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The F. A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, 1923
Aerial photograph of Wembley Stadium before the start of the 1923 F.A. Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United

Copper Moulds
Copper jelly and cream moulds - the more elaborate cost as much as 18 shillings, a great deal of money in those days, 30 or more in year 2000 term"

Caricature of John Corlett of The Sporting Times
Caricature of John Corlett (1841-1915), founder, proprietor and editor of The Sporting Times. Real Jam! He is annoyed that the cabman charges eighteen pence to drive someone one mile and 1700 yards

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Covent Garden Advert
A stall at Covent Garden would cost you a guinea in the 1880s, (say x 100 today) showing that opera-going has always been an expensive, elitist affair. Date: circa 1880

Demonstration against the toll on Chelsea Bridge, London
A demonstration against the charging of a toll on the new Chelsea Bridge, London

Oregano, Lecce, Lecce province, Puglia, Italy, Europe

Garlic for sale on the market in Cours Saleya, Nice, Alpes Maritimes, Cote d Azur, Provence, France, Europe

Wed's or Neuwied's hummingbird, Trochilus cyanogenys or Ornismya wiedii
FLO4660958 Wed's or Neuwied's hummingbird, Trochilus cyanogenys or Ornismya wiedii. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina (Ornismya amethistina). Juvenile
FLO4660940 Amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina (Ornismya amethistina). Juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Berylline hummingbird, Amazilia beryllina (Ornismya arsinoe). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after
FLO4660934 Berylline hummingbird, Amazilia beryllina (Ornismya arsinoe). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Black-bellied thorntail, Discosura langsdorffi (Ornismya langsdorfii). Immature
FLO4660866 Black-bellied thorntail, Discosura langsdorffi (Ornismya langsdorfii). Immature. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Dark hummingbird, Aphantochroa cirrochloris (Ornismya simplex, Trochilus cirrochloris), albino variety
FLO4660811 Dark hummingbird, Aphantochroa cirrochloris (Ornismya simplex, Trochilus cirrochloris), albino variety. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Antillean mango, Anthracothorax dominicus aurulentus (Trochilus aurulentus). Juvenile male
FLO4660724 Antillean mango, Anthracothorax dominicus aurulentus (Trochilus aurulentus). Juvenile male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene

Purple-throated carib, Eulampis jugularis (Trochilus auratus). Male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an
FLO4660652 Purple-throated carib, Eulampis jugularis (Trochilus auratus). Male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's

Dusky-throated hermit, Phaethornis squalidus (Trochilus squalidus). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an
FLO4660636 Dusky-throated hermit, Phaethornis squalidus (Trochilus squalidus). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's

Plovercrest or black-breasted plovercrest, Stephanoxis lalandi (Ornismya delalandii), juvenile
FLO4660882 Plovercrest or black-breasted plovercrest, Stephanoxis lalandi (Ornismya delalandii), juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Amazilia hummingbird (dumerilii), Amazilia amazilia dumerilii (Ornismya dumerilii). Adult male
FLO4661043 Amazilia hummingbird (dumerilii), Amazilia amazilia dumerilii (Ornismya dumerilii). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Golden-tailed sapphire, Chrysuronia oenone (Ornismya oenone). Male adult. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after
FLO4660944 Golden-tailed sapphire, Chrysuronia oenone (Ornismya oenone). Male adult. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Broad-tailed hummingbird, Selasphorus platycercus (Ornismya tricolor). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an
FLO4660860 Broad-tailed hummingbird, Selasphorus platycercus (Ornismya tricolor). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's

Blue-throated mountaingem, Lampornis clemenciae (Ornismya clemenciae), female
FLO4660826 Blue-throated mountaingem, Lampornis clemenciae (Ornismya clemenciae), female. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

White-bellied woodstar, Chaetocercus mulsant (Ornismya cyanopogon), juvenile
FLO4660824 White-bellied woodstar, Chaetocercus mulsant (Ornismya cyanopogon), juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Purple-crowned hummingbird, Amazilia violiceps, female. (Violet crown fly bird, Ornismya sephanioides)
FLO4660803 Purple-crowned hummingbird, Amazilia violiceps, female. (Violet crown fly bird, Ornismya sephanioides). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Green-breasted mango, Anthracothorax prevostii (Trochilus prevostii). Juvenile
FLO4660776 Green-breasted mango, Anthracothorax prevostii (Trochilus prevostii). Juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Lucifer sheartail, Calothorax lucifer (Hummingbird, Trochilus simplex). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an
FLO4660756 Lucifer sheartail, Calothorax lucifer (Hummingbird, Trochilus simplex). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's

Antillean mango, Anthracothorax dominicus aurulentus (Trochilus aurulentus). Female
FLO4660713 Antillean mango, Anthracothorax dominicus aurulentus (Trochilus aurulentus). Female. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Green-throated mango, Anthracothorax viridigula (Trochilus mango, Trochilus nitidus). Juvenile
FLO4660705 Green-throated mango, Anthracothorax viridigula (Trochilus mango, Trochilus nitidus). Juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Green-throated mango, Anthracothorax viridigula (Trochilus gramineus). Adult male
FLO4660661 Green-throated mango, Anthracothorax viridigula (Trochilus gramineus). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Costings of King George IV'S Coronation, 1820
1577071 Costings of King George IV'S Coronation, 1820; (add.info.: List of the cost of the Coronation of King George IV (1762-1830)

Long-billed starthroat, Heliomaster longirostris (Ornismya superba). Juvenile
FLO4661216 Long-billed starthroat, Heliomaster longirostris (Ornismya superba). Juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina (Ornismya amethistina). Young adult
FLO4660909 Amethyst woodstar, Calliphlox amethystina (Ornismya amethistina). Young adult. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Azure-crowned hummingbird, Amazilia cyanocephala (Ornismya cyanocephala), male juvenile
FLO4660878 Azure-crowned hummingbird, Amazilia cyanocephala (Ornismya cyanocephala), male juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene

Allen's hummingbird, Selasphorus sasin (Ornismya sasin). Almost adult plumage
FLO4660848 Allen's hummingbird, Selasphorus sasin (Ornismya sasin). Almost adult plumage. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere

Lucifer sheartail, Calothorax lucifer (Ornismya cyanopogon), juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an
FLO4660842 Lucifer sheartail, Calothorax lucifer (Ornismya cyanopogon), juvenile. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's

Crimson topaz, Topaza pella (Trochilus pella). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration
FLO4660569 Crimson topaz, Topaza pella (Trochilus pella). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural

Gilded sapphire, Hylocharis chrysura (Ornismya chrysura). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an
FLO4660806 Gilded sapphire, Hylocharis chrysura (Ornismya chrysura). Adult male. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's

Green violetear, Hummingbird thalassinus (Ornismya anais). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration
FLO4660792 Green violetear, Hummingbird thalassinus (Ornismya anais). Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural

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"Unveiling the true cost: From Schneider Trophy Air Race to Mount Pleasant Hotel, Kings Cross, London" "Discovering the hidden costs through history: Jersey Airways Poster to New York's Italian-American cafe espresso shop on M" "This cost a pretty figure: Exploring Merlin Enabnit's masterpiece and Josephine Baker's legacy" "Soho, London - NCP car park, Brewer Street W1: The price of convenience in the heart of the city" "Revisiting the Battle of Salamanca and Mormon Temple: The sacrifices made for faith and victory" "Cultivating dreams with cannabis seed starter kits at Bloemenmarkt, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe" "The F. A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, 1923: A legendary match that came at a great cost" "Navigating through Hampstead Tube.