Barely Collection

WW2 Greetings Card, Blackout Dog
A WW2 greetings card, the illustration shows the barely visible form of a happy dog during a blackout. The card has a red, white and blue ribbon attached, along with a springy Union Jack flag

60-pounder artillery gun
Royal Artillery ?? A 60-pounder artillery gun in a camouflaged (barely) position in the Western Desert. Date: circa 1941

Our River By Moonlight
A landscape watercolour painting of a calm, atmospheric river with trees under the moonlight, some figures can barely be seen in the distance. Date: circa 1918

Regency gentleman riding a horse that barely lifts its feet. He loses his bicorne when the horse hits a pig while a woman screams from a thatched cottage. A Daisy Cutter with his Varieties

Milton Abbey, Dorset, England founded by King Athelstan in the 10th century. The medieval church burned down in 1309 and rebuilding was had barely begun before the Dissolution

Bare breasted woman
A stylised art deco image showing a woman with her blonde hair in an elaborate classical style, barely wearing a dress and gazing at a phallic shaped purple flower

Waterloo Medal 1815. One of two medals awarded to Surgeon William Jones. Surgeon Jones served as Regimental Surgeon to the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment in the Peninsular and at Waterloo

The Duchess of Albany with her grandchildren
The Duchess of Albany, formerly Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1861-1922), and wife of Prince Leopold, pictured in 1910 with her grandchildren

Ramsgate Beach
A busy day on the beach during the August heatwave - you can barely see the sand in between the people!

Sapphic lovers
Two women, barely clad in diaphanous classical togas embrace each other, while a statue of pan plays pipes in the twilight

Naked woman
Woman posed against a wall wearing a diaphanous dress which barely covers her modesty

A junction of the M63 in Manchester - with barely a car on it! Date: circa 1975

Milton Abbey, Dorset, England founded by King Athelstan in the 10th century. The medieval church burned down in 1309 and rebuilding was had barely begun before the Dissolution

Ballad / Erlinton

Bathing Beauty
Latest Photographic Notes: Well Developed - a fine photographic postcard of a fetching young lady in her best pearls and favourite stripey bathing costume, perching delicately on the end of the quay

Army Club Cigarettes
An army officer celebrates the end of the First World War by wooing a sweetheart with the gift of Army Club cigarettes and a barely concealed bunch of mistletoe

Franco-Prussian War. Grave of five French Soldiers at Petit
Newly dug make shift graves for 5 french soldiers with one rudimentary cross, the soldiers feet are barely covered by the earth

Crinoline Spoils Dancing
The men are forced out of the ballroom. There is barely enough room to accomodate the crinolined belles. A page in an attempt to serve tea tilts forward precariously

Rene De Laudonniere
RENE de GOULAINE de LAUDONNIERE French seaman, founded a protestant colony in Florida but it was destroyed by the Spanish, he barely escaped

The Simple Life
THE SIMPLE LIFE - Dinner time in the barely furnished home of a formidable New Woman - she reads Votes for Women to her sandalled hubbie while snow blows into the room

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