Balls Collection

Alice in Wonderland, Alice at the croquet game, with flamingo (mallet) and hedgehogs (balls). Date: early 20th century

Fire Station Billiards Room

Men playing billiards in a club. Date: circa 1910s

Murraygate, Dundee - Celebration of the Jute Industry - this, along with its other major industries gave Dundee its epithet as the city of " jute, jam and journalism"

Old Japanese Matchbox label of a cat playing with a lion made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Teddy bear playing tennis. Date: circa 1900s

Good Luck card with two cricket bats, a ball and a wicket. Date: circa 1890s

Decorated Christmas tree with toys and food below. Date: circa 1890s

Two cats playing billiards on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Dance Time by Helen McKie
Couples dancing in a hotel ballroom during the 1920s, from 11pm to 2am. Date: 1928

Firefighters playing billiards in fire station
Firemen playing billiards in a fire station. Date: early 20th century

One for Fido by Cecil Aldin - throwing snowballs
A woman dressed in a brilliant red dress, hat and black cloak contrasts dramatically with a snowy landscape as she throws snowballs for her pet spaniels. 1899

A Vintage Season for Debutantes
Page from The Tatler by the magazines social editor, Jennifer, listing some of the events taking place during the Season of 1957, together with portraits of two debutantes

The Victory Ball by Pizer
An impression of the great Victory Ball, held at the Albert Hall to celebrate the end of the First World War in aid of the Nations Fund for Nurses

On with the dance by Lewis Baumer
A fancy dress ball in full swing in the early 1920s with couples on the dance floor in costume and balloons and streamers filling the air. Date: 1921

Lingering music sheet cover
Music sheet for Lingering, performed at The Palais de Danse, London. The music was written by T. W. Thurban and the words by John P. Harrington

Billiards champion with trophy
Billiards champion with the trophy he has won. Date: circa 1910s

Guests at the Bicester and Warden Hill Hunt Ball at Kirtlington Park, home of the Budgett family. Pictured in the Monkey Room, with the magnificent painted ceiling by Clermont in 1745. Date: 1964

Music cover, Annie Laurie or Royal Scots Quadrilles, with a view of Dundee, Scotland. Introducing the Popular Airs of Annie Laurie (Campbells Are Coming, Highland Laddie, Logie O Buchan)

Advert, L & H Nathan, Fancy Dress Costume
Advert for L & H Nathan, Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus, London -- Fancy Dress Costume for balls and theatricals. 1885

South Port, Gibralter

Paradise Street, Birmingham - View toward the Town Hall / New Street Date: 1904

Advert, Paraphrasia Tarda, golfers on green

Debenham and Freebody fashion catalogue
Debenham and Freebody, Washing Summer Frocks, Women's Fashion catalogue Date: circa 1930

Hyde Park Hotel Advertisement
An advertisement for the Hyde Park Hotel in London, idean for wedding receptions, residents and private balls. Date: circa 1923

The Paris Box
A still life painting of some balls of wool, with their entrails spilling out of a floral patterned cylindrical box, with a vase of poppies stood behind. Date: circa 1914

P & O Lines - miscellaneous items
P & O Lines - miscellaneous plated ware, 3d items and shipboard souvenirs. Date: 20th century

Fancy Dress Ball at Dharmsala, Punjab, India
Various scenes of a fancy dress ball for British elites at Dharmsala, Punjab, India, under British rule. Today known as Dharamshala or Dharamsala, in the Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh

Advert for North British Golf Balls
An advert for North British Golf Balls, manufactured in Edinburgh. The advert extols their unfailing accuracy'. Date: 1932

Dog playing with a ball - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Advert for North British Supercharged Golf Balls, featuring an illustration of golfer Harry Vardon (1870-1937) at the 1st Tee, Totteridge. Date: 1939

Illustration of fashionable women's gloves and jewellery. Date: 1954

Advert for North British Golf Balls (made in Edinburgh). Date: 1932

Joe Davis, Billiards and World Snooker Champion Date: 1938

Mikado series by Raphael Kirchner - Acrobat
Raphael Kirchner design for his Mikado series - created in 1900 in Japonism style. Date: 1900

Satirical cartoon, Evacuation of Holland and Brabant. Showing General Charles-Francois Dumouriez retreating with the French army (in blue)

Comic postcard, Drunken batsman who saw three balls Date: 20th century

Glimpses of guests at the Beaux Arts and Silver
Glimpses of guests at the Beaux Arts (with costumes of the First Napoleonic Era) and Silver Balls, annual society functions held in New York, 1931 with Elizabeth Wallace Taylor Hardin

A group of young women playing with balls, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Boys in jackets and breeches with Merveilleuse, 1800
Boys in jackets and breeches with Merveilleuse in Roman robe with bonnet and spencer jacket. Little Patriots, Year VIII, 1800. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Earth balls, Scleroderma verrucosum. Lycoperdon verrucosum, Licoperdo verrucoso, Vescia lupaja verrucosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle

Water horsetail, Equisetum fluviatile
Water horsetail or swamp horsetail, Equisetum fluviatile, Equiseto dei fiumi, Coda di cavallo. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze

View of the Besiktas Sahil Palace, 1800s
View of the Besiktas Sahil Palace, the Sultans vacation palace on the European side of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, 1800s. The Sultan

Advert, Fleisher Knitting Wool. 1922

Silhouette, The Croquet Party. late 19th century

Captain Woodwards seals at the London Hippodrome
Two of Captain Woodwards performing seals at the London Hippodrome demonstrating their balancing skills. Date: 1903

Sandows marvellous feat of strength at London Hippodrome
Eugene Sandow, strong man extraordinaire, seen supporting on his chest four men and ten women in addition to sundry cannon balls, part of his act at the London Hippodrome

The Jugglers by Averil Burleigh
The Jugglers: A Study in Modernity, by Averil Burleigh (1883 - 1949). Exhibited at the Society of Women Artists in 1929. Date: 1929

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