Gold, Silver, Bank Notes, Coins and Stamps, Postcards, Collectables including Baseball Trading cards, Furniture and lots more to be added Monday

Gold, Silver, Bank Notes, Coins and Stamps, Postcards, Collectables including Baseball Trading cards, Furniture and lots more to be added Monday

Lot 7: A Collection of British Wartime and Mid-20th Century Cookery and Domestic Pamphlets

2026-10-21T09:00:00Z

A Collection of British Wartime and Mid-20th Century Cookery and Domestic Pamphlets

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Description

A collection of vintage softcover pamphlets and paper ephemera focusing on British domestic life and food rationing during the mid-20th century. The lot includes various instructional guides and recipe booklets in octavo and smaller formats. Notable titles include The Stork Wartime Cookery Book, featuring an orange cover with a stork illustration; Wartime Cakes, Breads, Biscuits by Irene Veal, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1943; and The Recipe Book Atora The Good Beef Suet, which depicts a child carrying a large pudding. Other items include The Doctors’ Cookery; The New Herring Book, featuring a photographic portrait of Merle Oberon on the upper cover; and a Radiation Recipe Book by Mrs C. S. Peel. The collection also contains instructional leaflets such as Tomato Growing Is Not Difficult and How to Grow Onions, alongside a booklet titled Fruit Bottling published by Cross Bros. Ltd., Cardiff, and a pink-covered publication titled What’s Cooking?. A set of Assorted Household Gummed Labels is also present. Most items are bound in original pictorial paper wrappers with stapled spines.

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