2-799-075 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sale of West India Pine Apples, 1844. Scene in a London warehouse during the '...sale of upwards of 2700 West Indian Pine-Apples, by Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, of Monument-yard...We have heard of pine-apples being so abundant in the West Indies, as to be used, when cut horizontally, for scrubbing ships' decks, the acid of the fruit serving to whiten the timbers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.