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Butchers (Persons)

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Images about Butchers (Persons)

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  • A butcher swinging a string of sausages from a knife rides on the back of a large black boar. Etching, 1774.
  • Bought of F. Grove, butcher : familes supplied, South Down, Scotch, Dartmoor and Welsh mutton, Highland Scot & Aberdeen beef of best quality : home killed meat.
  • An Indian butcher and wife offering betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Dr. to H. F. Richards : Poulterer, game, butter & egg dealer & provision merchant : terms monthly.
  • Jacob Powell, weighing nearly forty stone. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Bot. of E. & A. Purser , purveyors of English meat, fish, game, poultry & provision stores : 127, & 129, High Street, Slough : Windsor & Maidenhead : proprietors of dairies ... / E. & A. Purser.
  • Easter, 1899 : F. Monk begs to announce that he is providing for Easter consumption several very choice consignments of English lamb direct from the farms at Wallingford, Chichester and Bridewater / F. Monk, London Road, Kingston-on-Thames.
  • A butcher wielding an axe to slaughter a bull. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • To W. B. Moss & Sons : ham and bacon curers : our speciality: first crop teas... china & hardware factors.
  • How does a beefsteak roll? / Bovril Limited.
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    Jacob Powell, who died weighing almost 40 stone. Line engraving by A. Walker.

    | Reference: 1763i
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    William Pitt the younger leads a group of ministers out of the Treasury as the Opposition in the guise of the rabble are held back by a grenadier sentry holding a bayonet. Etching by J. Gillray.

    Gillray, James, 1756-1815. | Date: [1830] | Reference: 585509i
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    A butcher threatening a doctor with revenge for poisoning his wife. Etching by J. Kent, 1782, after P.V.

    V. P. | Date: 25 January 1782 | Reference: 10975i
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    Whitmore's fish, game and poultry : 168 High Street, West Bromwich ... / G.E. Whitmore.

    Whitmore, G. E. | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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    Bought of F. Grove, butcher : familes supplied, South Down, Scotch, Dartmoor and Welsh mutton, Highland Scot & Aberdeen beef of best quality : home killed meat.

    Grove, F. | Date: [between 1910 and 1919]
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Related topics

Butcher shops
Meat industry and trade
Grocers
Abattoirs
Bacon
Tea
Meat

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