Comments on: My Cries Of London Scraps https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alex Phillips https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1365379 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:23:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1365379 Thanks for this. I found an invoice or receipt from a collection originating from Northumberland.
I found an identical scrap for sale on ebay for five pounds while searching for ‘w.straker ludgate hill’

But I wondered who Strakers were and found your pages. I can now see they must have printed the bill upon which the receipt was written.

The sale was for 1 duck, 1 pair of sparrows, marbles, 3 fishes, 1 mouse, 3 dogs (!?) and a seagull.

]]> By: Nicky Morland https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1185133 Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:54:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1185133 Thank you Lynne that makes it clear

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184943 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:48:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184943 Nicky, To my knowledge these so-called “scraps” were printed (and oftentimes embossed) on sheets and then metal dies were used to trim/punch around the edges. The end uses were for making cards, or decorating gifts, or saving/collecting in scrap books. It is possible to find
vintage scrapbooks full of such things, in ephemera markets or tag sales — and they are wonderful.
I happen to have an old ledger that started out as a salesman’s sample book of fabric swatches, and obviously some young boy has pulled most of the swatches out and glued over them with “scraps”.
One corner of the old book has been (ahem) chewed by a critter — the boy’s dog perhaps? In pencil on the inside cover is written “Walter — My Book” in pencil. To me, this humble artifact is a rare find.

]]> By: Nicky Morland https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184906 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:07:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184906 Please could someone explain more for me on ‘die-cast scraps’. What exactly are they?
I particularly like the watercress seller as it is the third instance this week of watercress for me this week, in a talk on vegetables, on a walk in Cambridgeshire where there are abandoned beds and now in a Victorian Street seller

]]> By: Kitanz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184792 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 16:48:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184792 These were Wonderful-Thank You!!

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184760 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:29:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184760 The paper and ephemera hounds thank you for this charming array! And you have thought of everything — even showing us the back of one of the scraps.
These lovely bits were never intended to be saved……yet here we are, on this winter day in 2017, ogling them and feeling so lucky.
Wonderful.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184748 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:07:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184748 Greetings from Boston,

GA, nice assortment. There’s that word again –“costermonger.” According to Wiki, “a street seller of fruit and vegetables.”

But here is the fine distinction: “Some historians have pointed out that a hierarchy existed within the costermonger class and that while costermongers sold from a handcart or animal-drawn cart, mere hawkers carried their wares in a basket.”

Good to know…

]]> By: Paul Ridgway https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184744 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:13:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184744 When in the City in 1972 we used to receive on Tower Hill every day one copy each of Lloyd’s List, The Journal of Commerce, The Times and The Daily Telegraph.

The supplier was Strakers then in Cannon Street as newsagents and stationers.

Would they have been descendants of the Straker above on Lydgate Hill?

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184732 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:20:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184732 A good set of artistic images, costume is well defined for the period. Poet John

]]> By: Peter Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/06/my-cries-of-london-scraps/#comment-1184729 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 06:14:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162253#comment-1184729 Wonderful! Thank you.

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