Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.

  • Thompson, H. S.
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1865
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Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Small card printed in black on white card, dated January 28, 1865, enabling (in this case Widow Readman) the bearer to food or coal, possibly as some sort of welfare or charitable act, giving him or her the option of extra warmth or a fuller diet in the middle of Winter on the North East coast.

Publication/Creation

Whitby : Gray & Pannett, 1865.

Physical description

1 card ; 7 x 9 cm

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    EPH/76/12

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