Thumbs Collection

Hoffmann / Suck-A-Thumb
THE STORY OF LITTLE SUCK-A- THUMB The great, long, red-legg d scissor-man cuts off Conrads thumbs

Gladiators in the Arena
Gladiators in the arena

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

Farm Workers and Tractor
A group of farm workers gathered round a tractor, some are waving at the camera, one gives a thumbs up. Date: late 1960s

little boy at an old man's hand is sucking on his thumb, Burundi, Bujumbura Marie, Bujumbura

Thumbs up from shadow transport minister John Prescott as he meets workers during his visit to Vauxhalls Ellesmere Port plant. Picture taken 7th February 1992

Hanging by the Thumbs (Modern Military Punishments), after 1725. Creator: William Hogarth
Hanging by the Thumbs (Modern Military Punishments), after 1725

WW2 - The Champion Book For Boys
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's annual, The Champion Book For Boys. The image shows a Royal Air Force pilot giving a big thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

Wartime Mars Bar Advertisement
A wartime advertisement promoting the Mars bar, The stuff to give the troops. The illustration portrays a British soldier giving a thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

Tiggerty-Boo! Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Tiggerty-Boo! the force's thumbs up song, by Hal Hallifax

Give Them The Wings For Victory
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Give Them The Wings For Victory, words and music by Harry Staite and George A. Barnett. The image portrays a smiling Royal Air Force pilot giving a thumbs up

WW2 - Boy's Own Paper March 1941
An illustrated front cover of a WW2 children's paper, Boys Own, March 1941

WW2 Greetings Card, Thumbs Up!
A WW2 Home Guard themed greetings card, the illustration portrays a British serviceman giving a double thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Christmas Postcard, We Can Take It!
A WW2 Christmas themes postcard, the illustration portrays some British servicemen of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and the Army, giving thumbs up. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Christmas Card, Albuhera
A WW2 Christmas card issued by the Middlesex Regiment at Albuhera, the image portrays a solder giving a double thumbs up. Date: 1940

WW2 Christmas Card, The Best Present!
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration portraying a jolly British soldier popping out of a gift box with a thumbs up! Date: circa 1940s

WW2 British Marine And Royal Navy Sailor
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book

"There was an Old Man of the Nile
LLM386663 " There was an Old Man of the Nile, who sharpened his nails with a file", from A Book of Nonsense, published by Frederick Warne and Co

Comparing the bones in the hands of nine different mammals, 1898 (colour litho)
1065622 Comparing the bones in the hands of nine different mammals, 1898 (colour litho) by Haeckel, Ernst (1834-1919); Private Collection; (add.info.: 1.Man, 2.Gorilla, 3. Orangutang, 4. dog, 5)

Keep smiling! Sheels are piling, Men are joining, Women toiling, All are working, Nothing shirking, So.... Thumbs Up! Date: circa 1916

Types of Thumbs (colour litho)
2800164 Types of Thumbs (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Types of Thumbs. A. Clubbed thumb, indicates an ungovernable temper. B)

Illustration of a Hand with Chiromantic Lines and Details from Saunders Physiognomie, pub
3239893 Illustration of a Hand with Chiromantic Lines and Details from Saunders Physiognomie, pub

The Boy Martyr (engraving)
6021227 The Boy Martyr (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Boy Martyr)

Thirlby Hall (engraving)
1044638 Thirlby Hall (engraving) by Small, William (1843-1931) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Thirlby Hall)

A Days Crocodile Fishing, a Shikaris First and only Experience (engraving)
1051260 A Days Crocodile Fishing, a Shikaris First and only Experience (engraving) by Ralston, William (1848-1911) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Days Crocodile Fishing)

Filofteia with her cat and lamb
Julien Oncete

Ringo Starr celebrates his 24th Birthday at BBC Lime Grove Studios in Shepherds Bush, London, Tuesday 7th July 1964. The Beatles were at the BBC to film an insert for " Top of The Pops"

STEVENSON / POEMS
Picture Books in Winter: Summer fading, winter comes; Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, & the picture story books. Date: First published: 1885

RURAL GENDARMERIE / 1930
A French policeman stands outside his rural gendarmerie. He stands waiting for some action with his thumbs tucked into his belt. Date: 1930

Stunt woman cannonball loses her knickers
Liza Knight, an 18-year-old stunt performer from Leicester, felt quite a draught after being shot from a cannon during a rehearsal

The punishment of Adoni-Bezek, a Canaanite king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him

Agnes Richardson, Lots of Luck
Agnes Richardson, Fums Up, Lots of Luck. 20th century

Fums Up lucky mascot, WW1
Fums Up, one of a number of charms or mascots produced during the First World War and designed to bring good luck. Date: 1916

Businessman giving thumbs up

Welsh Crwth - Rare Musical Instrument
Welsh Crwth - a very rare musical instrument - this example is held in a private collection on Anglesey. Hollowed out of a single block of wood, with the soundboard glued

Arthrosis of the hand, X-ray F006 / 4616
Coloured X-ray of the hand of a patient with arthrosis, particularly the saddle joint. Arthrosis is a degenerative joint disease that damages cartilage and bone

Thumbs & Toes Cut Off
Adoni-Bezek, king of Jeru- salem, is defeated, captured, and punished by having his thumbs and big toes cut off : but spare your tears, thats just what he did to others

Bathing Beauty / Periscope
A bathing beauty thumbs her nose at a periscope: " Goodness, I m not afraid of that - I ve seen too many in my time!"

Cucumber Seedling With Water Droplets Held Up With Fingers And A Blue Sky Background; Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hands releasing white dove; Vancouver british columbia canada

Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis Callidryas)

Statue at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar Date: 2016

WW2 - 1st day cover - I m working with Uncle Sam. Date: 1943

Christmas card in the shape of gloves
Christmas card in the shape of a pair of overlapping orange gloves. Date: circa 1890s

WW2 Christmas card, jolly sailor giving the thumbs up. Date: 1941

WW2 greetings card, smiling soldier
WW2 pop-up greetings card, smiling soldier in khaki uniform. Date: circa 1942

WW2 greetings card, Thumbs up
WW2 pop-up greetings card, Thumbs up! Date: circa 1942

Smiling man with clenched fists in studio, (B&W), portrait

Young businessman in studio smiling, (B&W), portrait

Businessman holding thumbs in waistcoat, smiling, (B&W), portrait

Gladiators in the Roman arena: spectators are giving the thumbs down, signalling the victor not to spare his adversary. Chromolithograph after the painting by JL Gerome

Joe E Brown (1892-1973) American actor and comedian driving jeep loaded with American GIs seeing the sights in China. Brown giving thumbs up sign to Chinese children, 1942 or 1943

Chinese justice: Prisoner, kneeling on chains, ankles in a form of stocks, outstretched arms supported by thumbs tied by cord to a pole. One of a pair of images from a stereographic card c1906

Arthrosis of the hand, X-ray F006 / 4605
Coloured X-ray of the hand of a patient with arthrosis, particularly the saddle joint. Arthrosis is a degenerative joint disease that damages cartilage and bone

Arthrosis of the hand, X-ray F006 / 4595
Coloured X-ray of the hand of a patient with arthrosis of the hands. particularly the saddle joint. Arthrosis is a degenerative joint disease that damages cartilage and bone

Arthrosis of the hand, X-ray F006 / 4598
Coloured X-ray of the hand of a patient with arthrosis, particularly the saddle joint. Arthrosis is a degenerative joint disease that damages cartilage and bone

Arthritic hands, X-ray C018 / 0534
Arthritic hands. Coloured X-ray of the hands of a 72 year old patient with rheumatoid arthritis. The wrist and finger joints have become inflamed and swollen

Arthritic hands, X-ray C018 / 0532
Arthritic hands. X-ray of the hands of a 72 year old patient with rheumatoid arthritis. The wrist and finger joints have become inflamed and swollen

Thumbs down!. Illustration shows a skeleton labeled Death as a gladiator standing over a Sick Person; before giving the death stroke

Booklet, Springboks during Second World War
Pages from a booklet, A Picture Story of the Union of South Africa, produced by the Ministry of Information. Showing South African troops, nicknamed Springboks, during the Second World War. 1940s

Muscles of the hand

Arm bones, artwork

Australopithecus and chimpanzee hands
Australopithecus (left) and chimpanzee (right) hands, artwork

Fingerprint record card. Fingerprints are formed from the ridges on the skin of human fingertips. These ridges form a distinct and unique pattern

Lear / Nonsense / The Nile
There was an Old Man of the Nile, who sharpened his nails with a file, Till he cut out his thumbs, and said calmly, This comes of sharpening ones nails with a file! Date: First published: 1846

4000-lb Bomb being loaded into a Lancaster, Britain; Second
Photograph showing a 4000-lb Cookie bomb being loaded into an Avro Lancaster of the Royal Air Force, at an airfield somewhere in Britain, 1944

Bronze Thumb sculpture, La Defense, Paris, France, Europe

Thumbing Ones Nose
She thumbs her nose

A Cheeky Chick
A cheeky chick thumbs his beak at another who is putting on airs

Thumbing a Lift
A young man hitch hiker, thumbs a lift from a Denis McCarthy lorry

King in Streets
Top-hatted citizens wave their hats, a cloth-capped worker thumbs his nose as Friedrich Wilhelm IV, king of Prussia, rides through the streets of Berlin to the University

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"Thumbs up for thumbs! From Hoffmann to Suck-A-Thumb, a journey through history. " "Gladiators in the Arena: Thumbs as a symbol of victory and defeat. " "From farm workers to tractors, thumbs play a crucial role in agriculture's progress. " "The Champion Book For Boys during WW2: Thumbs held high for heroes and champions. " "Wartime Mars Bar Advertisement: A sweet treat that brings smiles and thumbs up. " "Tiggerty-Boo. Music Cover: Thumbs tapping along to the rhythm of joyous melodies. " "Give them the wings for victory. Thumbs unite in support during World War II. " "In Boy's Own Paper March 1941, thumbs inspire bravery and resilience in young hearts. " "A simple gesture speaks volumes. The WW2 Greetings Card with a reassuring thumbs up. " "We can take it. Spread holiday cheer with this WW2 Christmas Postcard featuring determined thumbs. " "Albuhera - A powerful message conveyed through a heartfelt WW2 Christmas Card with raised thumbs" "The best present is unity. Celebrate the season with this heartwarming WW2 Christmas Card adorned with joyful thumbs.