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Background imageMoney Collection: Lear / Owl & Pussycat / C19

Lear / Owl & Pussycat / C19
The Owl & the Pussy-Cat went to sea, In a beautiful pea- green boat; They took some honey, & plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note

Background imageMoney Collection: Five pound note

Five pound note issued by the Bank of England

Background imageMoney Collection: London Stock Exchange - The Stock Jobbers Pitches

London Stock Exchange - The Stock Jobbers Pitches. Date: early 1960s

Background imageMoney Collection: Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth

Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealth
Tsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth)

Background imageMoney Collection: Rent Day, c1584-1638. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Rent Day, c1584-1638. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Rent Day, c1584-1638. From the Burghley House Collection, Lincolnshire

Background imageMoney Collection: National coal strike - demands of miners 1912

National coal strike - demands of miners 1912
National coal strike, to secure a minimum wage that lasted from February to early April 1912

Background imageMoney Collection: Recruitment poster, Coldstream Guards

Recruitment poster, Coldstream Guards
Recruitment poster, Smart Men Wanted for the Coldstream Guards, showing rates of pay, with Windsor Castle in the background Date: 1923

Background imageMoney Collection: Northern Trust Company Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Northern Trust Company Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Northern Trust Company Bank, La Salle and Monroe Streets, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageMoney Collection: Horse drawn vehicles and barrows in Borough High Street, London, 1904

Horse drawn vehicles and barrows in Borough High Street, London, 1904
Horse drawn vehicles, barrows and shop fronts, 309-317 Borough High Street, London, 1904. Men and boys wait with barrows and horse-drawn carts

Background imageMoney Collection: Harlequin and Death, 1907. Artist: Somov, Konstantin Andreyevich (1869-1939)

Harlequin and Death, 1907. Artist: Somov, Konstantin Andreyevich (1869-1939)
Harlequin and Death, 1907. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Background imageMoney Collection: Someone Drops a Sixpence Near Somerset House - HM Bateman

Someone Drops a Sixpence Near Somerset House - HM Bateman
H.M. Bateman had a particular loathing for the taxman as exemplified in this cartoon showing the inhabitants of Somerset House (then the home of the Inland Revenue)

Background imageMoney Collection: The Income Tax Official in Hades by H. M. Bateman

The Income Tax Official in Hades by H. M. Bateman
A tax man from the Inland Revenue suffering his worst nightmare - locked in a cage suspended over a pile of cheques and money he cannot reach. Cartoon by H. M

Background imageMoney Collection: Enjoying the Ice near a Town, c. 1620, by Hendrick Avercamp

Enjoying the Ice near a Town, c. 1620, by Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634). Dutch painter. Enjoying the Ice near a Town, c. 1620. Rijskmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Background imageMoney Collection: Group photo, Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, USA

Group photo, Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, USA
Group photo of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Background imageMoney Collection: 1923 German Hyperinflation

1923 German Hyperinflation
A boy and men with a pile of useless Deutsch mark banknotes as hyperinflation hits Germany in 1923

Background imageMoney Collection: British Bank Notes

British Bank Notes
A One Pound and a Ten Shillings note issued following a moratorium announced by the Government at the outbreak of World War One

Background imageMoney Collection: Parable Of The Talents

Parable Of The Talents
An engraved depiction of The parable of the talents from the New Testament Book of Matthew 25:14-30, circa 1700

Background imageMoney Collection: Farrows Bank Ltd. - The Peoples Bank

Farrows Bank Ltd. - The Peoples Bank - 1 Cheapside, London

Background imageMoney Collection: French poster, The Future Lies in Socialism

French poster, The Future Lies in Socialism
A French poster which declares that The Future Lies in Socialism, showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to the octopus monster of commercialism, foreign gold

Background imageMoney Collection: Mental Cruelty by H. M. Bateman

Mental Cruelty by H. M. Bateman
A banks customer struggles to control his reactions at seeing piles of money being handled by the staff behind the counter

Background imageMoney Collection: Cans of Spam 1940S

Cans of Spam 1940S
Canned Spam luncheon meat, priced at 1 4D (one shilling and four pence in old money), on a shelf in a grocery store

Background imageMoney Collection: The Star Money - 1

The Star Money - 1
Die Sternthaler : the child gathers up the star money

Background imageMoney Collection: Old Uk Money 1969

Old Uk Money 1969
A pile of " old" United Kindom currency, including pound notes shillings and copper coins before Decimalisation occurred on 15 February 1971

Background imageMoney Collection: OLD ENGLISH COINS

OLD ENGLISH COINS
Old (pre-Decimalisation) British coins (left to right): Top - penny, half penny, threepenny bit. Bottom - half crown, two shillings, one shilling, sixpence - tails

Background imageMoney Collection: Money / Stones / Yap 1885

Money / Stones / Yap 1885
Two chiefs of Yap Island, western Caroline (Pacific) Islands with three huge perforated stones which were used as currency

Background imageMoney Collection: Metric System

Metric System
Applications of the metric system to dimensions, weight and money

Background imageMoney Collection: Political Ravishment, or the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger!

Political Ravishment, or the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in Danger!, 1797. From a private collection

Background imageMoney Collection: Good jobs. Good money. Good times

Good jobs. Good money. Good times. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster published by Her Majesty?s Stationery Office, 1973. Printed by Impress Limited, 1973

Background imageMoney Collection: Opening of the Anglesey Hunt

Opening of the Anglesey Hunt
An opening custom of the Anglesey Hunt, whereby hot coppers or small change (heated in a bucket by the fire) are thrown from the balcony of the Bulkeley Arms Hotel following the hunt ball

Background imageMoney Collection: Arabian-Byzantine coin. Coin. FRANCE. Paris

Arabian-Byzantine coin. Coin. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Background imageMoney Collection: Share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields

Share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields
A share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields Limited, representing 35 shares. Gold deposits were first discovered along the Yukon River in Canada in 1896, and this triggered off a gold rush

Background imageMoney Collection: Two businessmen and different business models

Two businessmen and different business models
The Old Way. The New Way. Two businessmen and different business models and their success or failure. Giving credit or paying cash. Date: 1870

Background imageMoney Collection: Suffragette selling badges

Suffragette selling badges Date: circa 1910s

Background imageMoney Collection: Euro bank notes

Euro bank notes. Three fifty Euro bills

Background imageMoney Collection: Humanised turkey in the role of a banker

Humanised turkey in the role of a banker
A humanised turkey dressed in a suit, cast in the role of a fat banker, surrounded by bags of money

Background imageMoney Collection: Pearly King / Collection

Pearly King / Collection
A pearly King collects money for charity from a group of women enjoying a picnic

Background imageMoney Collection: Charity Bootblacks

Charity Bootblacks
To raise money for hospitals, English girls offer their services as shoeblacks to passing gentlemen in the streets of London

Background imageMoney Collection: Bank of England / Dividend

Bank of England / Dividend
Dividend Day at The Bank of England

Background imageMoney Collection: Thomas Newton, Butcher

Thomas Newton, Butcher

Background imageMoney Collection: Advertisement for National Savings

Advertisement for National Savings -- your savings soon mount up -- showing a plane soaring above the countryside

Background imageMoney Collection: London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange LIFFE LIFFE

London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange LIFFE LIFFE

Background imageMoney Collection: WW2 poster, Wings for Victory, Lets Go, National Savings. Date: circa 1944

WW2 poster, Wings for Victory, Lets Go, National Savings. Date: circa 1944

Background imageMoney Collection: Cartoon, The Macmillion (Andrew Carnegie)

Cartoon, The Macmillion (Andrew Carnegie)
Cartoon, The Macmillion -- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919), Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist

Background imageMoney Collection: A man wears dollar sign rings in a jewellery shop in Manhattan in New York City

A man wears dollar sign rings in a jewellery shop in Manhattan in New York City
A man wears U.S. dollar sign rings in a jewellery shop in Manhattan in New York City November 6, 2014

Background imageMoney Collection: The Juxon Medal: Charles I, 1600-1649, King of England 1625 [obverse], 1639

The Juxon Medal: Charles I, 1600-1649, King of England 1625 [obverse], 1639

Background imageMoney Collection: Fruit-Sellers Counting Their Money, 1618, (1914). Creator: BartolomA Esteban Murillo

Fruit-Sellers Counting Their Money, 1618, (1914). Creator: BartolomA Esteban Murillo
Fruit-Sellers Counting Their Money, 1618, (1914). Child street-vendors with a basket of grapes. Painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Background imageMoney Collection: The Blind Leading the Blind

The Blind Leading the Blind. Found in the Collection of Musee du Louvre, Paris

Background imageMoney Collection: After the marriage, 1874. Artist: Zhuravlev, Firs Sergeevich (1836-1901)

After the marriage, 1874. Artist: Zhuravlev, Firs Sergeevich (1836-1901)
After the marriage, 1874. Found in the collection of the Regional Art Gallery, Tambov

Background imageMoney Collection: French poster for the Socialist Party (SFIO)

French poster for the Socialist Party (SFIO)
A French poster for the Socialist Party SFIO (French Section of the Workers International)

Background imageMoney Collection: Poster, Back the Great Attack with War Savings

Poster, Back the Great Attack with War Savings, showing WW2 soldiers running across a beach. 1940s

Background imageMoney Collection: Poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, WW1

Poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, WW1
American poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, designed to raise money for the war effort during the First World War. Showing a menacing German with bloody fingers and bayonet. Date: 1917-1918

Background imageMoney Collection: One Million German Mark banknote - 1923

One Million German Mark banknote - 1923 - testament to the hyperinflation experienced by the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s. Date: 1923

Background imageMoney Collection: Official wording, Apprenticeship Indenture

Official wording, Apprenticeship Indenture
Official wording of an Apprenticeship Indenture, between John Henry Watson of 3 Newland Street, Derby, and Messrs John Davis & Son (Derby) Limited

Background imageMoney Collection: Wartime poster, More Ships

Wartime poster, More Ships -- come on! War Savings are Warships. Encouraging people to save money and help the war effort. Featuring a British bulldog wearing an HMS Victory naval cap. 1940s

Background imageMoney Collection: Poster advertising Post Office Savings Bank

Poster advertising Post Office Savings Bank
Poster advertising the Post Office Savings Bank -- money is power. Showing two tall smoking chimneys, possibly of Battersea Power Station. 20th century

Background imageMoney Collection: Phoenician coins and writing

Phoenician coins and writing
Phoenician coins. Engraving depicting various coins and medals from the Phoenician civilisation. Phoenicia existed as a collection of city states in the coastal areas of modern day Lebanon and Syria

Background imageMoney Collection: Peasant paying rent in the late Middle Ages

Peasant paying rent in the late Middle Ages
Tenant paying rent, from a book of surveying printed in England, 1523. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier illustration

Background imageMoney Collection: Origin Species, CH Bennett, banker - vulture

Origin Species, CH Bennett, banker - vulture
Vulturine. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a vulture to a banker

Background imageMoney Collection: Queen Alexandra and Empress Marie, Maundy Thursday

Queen Alexandra and Empress Marie, Maundy Thursday
Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) and her sister Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928), leaving the Maundy Thursday distribution ceremony at Westminster Abbey

Background imageMoney Collection: England, Greater London, The City of London

England, Greater London, The City of London. Abstract view of the modern architecture of the famous Gherkin building, in the financial square mile in the City of London

Background imageMoney Collection: UK money, pound coins

UK money, pound coins

Background imageMoney Collection: London Stock Exchange 1980s 1988 AB ports Harold Rattle Shares Money

London Stock Exchange 1980s 1988 AB ports Harold Rattle Shares Money Finance Busy

Background imageMoney Collection: John Aspinall with his giant Silverback Gorrila ponders the problems of running his Zoo

John Aspinall with his giant Silverback Gorrila ponders the problems of running his Zoo at Howletts, near Canterbury

Background imageMoney Collection: The Loves of the Fox and The Badger, or The Coalition Wedding. January 7, 1784

The Loves of the Fox and The Badger, or The Coalition Wedding. January 7, 1784

Background imageMoney Collection: The Parable of the Rich Fool, 1627. Creator: Rembrandt van Rhijn (1606-1669)

The Parable of the Rich Fool, 1627. Creator: Rembrandt van Rhijn (1606-1669)
The Parable of the Rich Fool, 1627. Found in the Collection of Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Background imageMoney Collection: The Parable of the Talents. Artist: Doetechum, Lucas, van (c. 1530-c. 1584)

The Parable of the Talents. Artist: Doetechum, Lucas, van (c. 1530-c. 1584)
The Parable of the Talents. From a private collection

Background imageMoney Collection: The Tax Collectors, 1520s. Artist: Massys, Quentin (1466?1530)

The Tax Collectors, 1520s. Artist: Massys, Quentin (1466?1530)
The Tax Collectors, 1520s. Found in the collection of the Liechtenstein Museum

Background imageMoney Collection: Cover design, Dombey and Son

Cover design, Dombey and Son
Cover design, Part XI of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, August 1847, with illustrations by Hablot K Browne. 1847

Background imageMoney Collection: Native of Yap carrying stone money

Native of Yap carrying stone money
A native man from Yap wearing a mangrove wood comb in his hair (a sign of high rank) carrying stone money on a pole over his shoulder. Date: 1937

Background imageMoney Collection: Caricature of Archdeacon Dunbar, Anglican clergyman

Caricature of Archdeacon Dunbar, Anglican clergyman
Caricature of Archdeacon Charles Gordon Cumming Dunbar (1844-1916), Anglican clergyman of St Andrews Church, Tavistock Place, London, who was involved in a divorce case in 1881 brought by his wife

Background imageMoney Collection: French Street Conjuror

French Street Conjuror
A French street magician with his trestle table set up ready to perform the cup and ball trick and con some punters out of their money Date: circa 1805

Background imageMoney Collection: WW2 Poster -- Don t Waver, Help Wavell

WW2 Poster -- Don t Waver, Help Wavell
Dont Waver, Help Wavell. En---ds War Weapons Week, 17-24 May 1940

Background imageMoney Collection: Pound sign

Pound sign

Background imageMoney Collection: Money tree, conceptual artwork

Money tree, conceptual artwork
Money tree, conceptual computer artwork

Background imageMoney Collection: Copper Moulds

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"

Background imageMoney Collection: The Lawyer's Office, 1628. Creator: Pieter de Bloot

The Lawyer's Office, 1628. Creator: Pieter de Bloot
The Lawyer's Office, 1628

Background imageMoney Collection: Bolsover Miners

Bolsover Miners
Miners from the Bolsover branch of the National Union of Mineworkers, Derbyshire, collect money for the strike fund Date: May 1984

Background imageMoney Collection: Coin Depicting the Goddess Tyche, 2nd-1st century BCE. Creator: Unknown

Coin Depicting the Goddess Tyche, 2nd-1st century BCE. Creator: Unknown
Coin Depicting the Goddess Tyche, 2nd-1st century BCE



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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Money: A Timeless Tale of Wealth, Power, and Struggles" In the whimsical world of Lear's Owl & Pussycat, amidst a backdrop of C19 challenges, money takes center stage. Just like the elusive five-pound note that slipped through their fingers, it holds both promise and uncertainty. Throughout history, it has been a subject of fascination and satire. Take Gillray's political masterpiece "Political Ravishment, " where the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street finds herself in danger during turbulent times in 1797. Such art captures society's complex relationship with wealth. Tsai Shen Yeh, the Chinese God of wealth, reminds us that money is not just about material possessions but also spiritual abundance. It symbolizes prosperity beyond mere coins or stocks on London Stock Exchange pitches. Even ancient artifacts hold tales of monetary significance; consider Pontius Pilate's bronze coins from 30-31 AD. They remind us how currency has shaped civilizations throughout time. From coal strikes demanding fair wages to Netherlandish Proverbs illustrating societal values tied to wealth distribution—money becomes entwined with social justice struggles across centuries. Yet amidst these complexities lies joyous moments too. Hendrick Avercamp's painting depicts people enjoying ice near a town—a reminder that they are enable leisure and happiness when shared equitably among communities. The Jubilee Singers' group photo showcases how funds raised through talent can uplift marginalized voices at Fisk University in the USA—a testament to using financial resources for positive change. Religious parables such as The Parable Of The Talents teach valuable lessons about utilizing one's financial resources wisely while H. M Bateman humorously portrays an Income Tax Official facing consequences even after death—an eternal reminder that taxes are inevitable. In this ever-evolving world where economies fluctuate like tides, money remains an intricate part of our lives. It reflects our desires for security and success while also highlighting the need for balance and fairness.

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