Box 1

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: 900 different prostitutes' trade cards, plus some duplicates, produced primarily as advertisements to be posted inside traditional red London phone booths (on the glass itself or inserted between the glass and frame), from which these were regularly retrieved by Timothy d'Arch Smith and his godson Matthew Ayres from 1991-2006, almost entirely in the Baker Street/Paddington area and in Earls Court. Ranging from visiting card to postcard size, they were printed on paper or card stocks (mostly...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: 900 different prostitutes' trade cards, plus some duplicates, produced primarily as advertisements to be posted inside traditional red London phone booths (on the glass itself or inserted between the glass and frame), from which these were regularly retrieved by Timothy d'Arch Smith and his godson Matthew Ayres from 1991-2006, almost entirely in the Baker Street/Paddington area and in Earls Court. Ranging from visiting card to postcard size, they were printed on paper or card stocks (mostly...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: 900 different prostitutes' trade cards, plus some duplicates, produced primarily as advertisements to be posted inside traditional red London phone booths (on the glass itself or inserted between the glass and frame), from which these were regularly retrieved by Timothy d'Arch Smith and his godson Matthew Ayres from 1991-2006, almost entirely in the Baker Street/Paddington area and in Earls Court. Ranging from visiting card to postcard size, they were printed on paper or card stocks (mostly...