Cries Of London Snap Cards
It has been a while since I added to my collection of Cries of London down the ages, so I was delighted to acquire these beautiful cards recently for a mere couple of pounds. For me, their patina after more than century of use in games of Snap only enhances the appeal of these characterful portraits of industrious Londoners of the eighteen-nineties.
You may also like to take a look at these other sets of the Cries of London
Geoffrey Fletcher’s Pavement Pounders
William Craig Marshall’s Itinerant Traders
H.W.Petherick’s London Characters
John Thomson’s Street Life in London
Aunt Busy Bee’s New London Cries
Marcellus Laroon’s Cries of London
More John Player’s Cries of London
William Nicholson’s London Types
Francis Wheatley’s Cries of London
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana of 1817
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana II
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana III
Thomas Rowlandson’s Lower Orders
I just wish we had the same repairing service so easily available – although I guess the internet offers most of the things in your selected Cries of London above. Really enjoyed the pix. Thanks. Nicola http://islingtonfacesblog.com
Great cards! What’s Hokey Pokey?
I checked back to see if there was an answer and then googled :
from oxforddictionaries.com
Definition of hokey-pokey
noun
informal
1 [mass noun] dated ice cream sold on the street, especially by Italian street vendors.
Lovely!
Hokey Pokey was still around when I was a child in the 1930’s, it was a white ice cream that was frozen into very hard blocks, it made your teeth ache, I can still feel the pain.
Gary
I have just remembered the vendors cry,
“Hokey Pockey, penny a lump”
Gary (again)
I had a set of these cards in the 1930’s when I was about four. One I remember well was Mr Bun the Baker. What happy times we had playing Snap.
I have a set of these cards in my collection and recently listed them for sale in my online tictail shop, along with many more vintage British games.