Wartime Silver
Posted in Uncategorized on 08/28/2008 07:52 am by admin
Wartime Silver
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 1943 D SILVER JEFFERSON WARTIME NICKEL NGC 35 SILRR  US $65.00
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 300 SILVER WARTIME NICKELS 1942 1945 US $599.00
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 1942 1945 SET SILVER WARTIME NICKELS US $72.00
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 Wartime Nickel 1 oz 999 Silver Art Bar Sam Sloat INC US $60.00
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 1942 1945 Wartime Silver Nickels 11 Coin Set PCGS MS66 US $999.00
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 $20 SILVER WARTIME NICKEL 10 ROLLS 400 COINS US $699.00
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 Silver Cross of Merit with Crown wartime ribbon s9703 US $203.26
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 US Wartime Silver Nickels Set BU US $125.99
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Hull is a city in the historic county of East Riding of Yorkshire England. It is located at the point where the little River Hull (which starts in the Yorkshire Wolds) joins the River Humber, twenty miles from the sea. Hull lies on a naturally advantageous position for portage, due to its position on the north side of the Humber Estuary. Hull was originally a little settlement called Wyke which belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Meaux near Beverley. In the 12th century, King Edward I bought the North Sea port to use as a supply base for his military campaigns in Scotland. The King founded the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull on the site, and this name is still the formal title of the city.
Hull being a major port in the later middle ages, its merchants traded widely to North Sea ports in Northern Germany, the Baltics and the Low Countries. It exported lead, grain and wool. Imports included cloth from the Netherlands, iron-ore from Sweden, oil seed from the Baltic and timber from Riga and Norway. Timber and oil seed continue to be major imports through the port of Hull to the present day. Some Hull merchants grew very rich. The De La Pole family became wealthy enough to join the ranks of the English aristocracy, and for one brief period in the 1400s, become heirs to the throne. Hull suffered a decline in trade during the 16th and 17th centuries, but its strategic importance meant that it received the military attentions of both sides in the British Civil Wars. King Charles I attempted to take control of the arsenal at Hull, but was turned away from the gates by the governor Sir John Hotham. Hull supported the Parliamentarian (Roundhead) side in the conflict, and was consequently besieged by the Royalists (Cavaliers) for five weeks.
The late 18th century saw the rise of the whaling trade in Hull. By 1800, 40% of the country's whalers sailed from the North Sea port of Hull, and the trade brought increased prosperity to Hull until it began to decline through over-fishing in the mid 19th century. By then, the fishing industry itself was beginning to take off in Hull. In the 1840s, the "silver pits" - a very fish-rich part of the North Sea - led to fishermen from Devon and Kent migrating to the Humber, at first seasonally and then permanently. The introduction in the late 19th century of new fishing methods - the "trawl" - and of steam powered trawlers meant that Hull fishermen fished as far a field as Iceland and the White Sea.
During World War II, Hull suffered some of Britain's heaviest wartime bombing and many new buildings were later constructed to replace those that had been bombed. The profile of trade in Hull changed after the war. Now, Hull has important links with the European continent and there are important North Sea ferry links to Zeebrugge in Belgium and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. At the beginning of the 21st century, Hull is a unique city with a proud heritage and strong foundations on which to build a prosperous and exciting future.
Hull is a vibrate North Sea Port for more information http://www.northseaferrieshull.co.uk
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The Wartime Years - Wartime Memories $13.49 The Wartime Years - Wartime Memories |
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Winter In Wartime $9.99 Winter In Wartime |
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Wartime Leaders $14.99 Wartime Leaders |
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Wartime $17.95 Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Frank Kermode, in The New York Times Book Review, hailed it as "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make World War I part of our minds," and Lionel Trilling called it simply "one of the most deeply moving books I have read in a long time." In its panaramic scope and poetic intensity, it illuminated a war that changed a generation and revolutionized the way we see the world. Now, in Wartime, Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging. Whereas his former book focused primarily on literary figures, on the image of the Great War in literature, here Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by "precision bombing," that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit. Of course, no Fussell book would be complete without some serious discussion of the literature of the time. He examines, for instance, how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longingly on lavish dinners, and how the "high-mindedness" of the era and the almost pathological need to "accentuate the positive" led to the downfall of the acerbic H.L. Mencken and the ascent of E.B. White. He also offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world. Fussell conveys the essence of that wartime as no other writer before him. For the past fifty years, the Allied War has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by "the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty." Americans, he says, have never understood what the Second World War was really like. In this stunning volume, he offers such an understanding. |
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Wartime Christmas $39.99 Wartime Christmas - Giclee Print |
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Weeks To Wartime $24.99 Weeks To Wartime - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Harvest $24.99 Wartime Harvest - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Br $24.99 Wartime Br - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Coventry $24.99 Wartime Coventry - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Shipyard $24.99 Wartime Shipyard - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Winchester $24.99 Wartime Winchester - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Gifts $24.99 Wartime Gifts - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Train $24.99 Wartime Train - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Paris $24.99 Wartime Paris - Photographic Print |
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Wartime London $24.99 Wartime London - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Production $24.99 Wartime Production - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Churchgoers $24.99 Wartime Churchgoers - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Shipping $19.99 Wartime Shipping - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Posters $24.99 Wartime Posters - Photographic Print |
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American Coin Treasures Jefferson Wartime Silver Nickel Pocket Knife $58.19 This American Coin Treasures collectible pocket knife features the Jefferson Wartime Nickel that was minted during World War II. The coin rests securely against the embellished wood grain handle and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Blade materials: Stainless steel Blade length: 2.875 inchesHandle materials: WoodCoin: Jefferson Wartime NickelMinted during World War IIComposed of 35-percent silver/ 9-perecent manganese/ 56-percent copperIncludes Certificate of Authenticity |
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Paris in Wartime $79.99 Paris in Wartime - Premium Photographic Print |
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Wartime Romance $24.99 H. Armstrong Roberts Wartime Romance - Photographic Print |
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Wartime Rations $34.99 Pat Nicolle Wartime Rations - Giclee Print |
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Greatest Ever Wartime Memories $6.49 Greatest Ever Wartime Memories |
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100 Hits ? Wartime Memories $8.49 100 Hits ? Wartime Memories |
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Wartime Speeches 1939 - 1945 $9.99 Wartime Speeches 1939 - 1945 |
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Something To Remember - Wartime $6.49 Something To Remember - Wartime |
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Heroes Collection - Wartime Favourites $4.99 Heroes Collection - Wartime Favourites |
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Wartime Secrets With Harry Harris $6.99 Wartime Secrets With Harry Harris |
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Wartime Britain (Time Traveller) $8.99 Wartime Britain (Time Traveller) |
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Original Hits - Wartime $8.99 Original Hits - Wartime |
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Life During Wartime $6.99 Life During Wartime |
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Wartime Music 6 $15.99 Wartime Music 6 |