Binoculars Collection (page 3)

Florence Upton playing cards - Sarah with Field Glass. circa 1900s

Greetings card in the shape of a pair of binoculars, with three humanised birds playing snooker in the foreground. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the shape of a pair of binoculars or opera glasses. circa 1890s

The Balcony. Engraving by Barcelo, La Ilustracion, 1882. Colored

Mariano de Cavia (1855-1920). Engraving. Colored
Mariano de Cavia (1855-1920). Spanish writer and journalist. Engraving. Colored

Joaquin Jovellar Soler (1819-1892). Engraving, 1892. Colored
Joaquin Jovellar Soler (1819-1892). Spanish politician and military. Engraving, 1892. Colored

Bofill Martorell, Jose Maria (d. 1893)
Bofill Martorell, Jose Maria (d.1893). Spanish politician. Engraving by Thomas Pijoliu. Colored

Caricature of the Duke of Connaught in Egypt
Caricature of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), third son of Queen Victoria. Seen here on military service in the British army during the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882

Caricature of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales
Caricature of Queen Victoria and Edward, Prince of Wales, in a theatre box, watching a Christmas pantomime. 1881

Fairies in the rushes on a Christmas card
Two fairy ladies watching a fairy huntsman riding an insect in the rushes on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

On Western Front 1918
Officers making obeservations from a safe distance with the aid of binoculars, near the Front Line of the Western Front. Date: 1918

Comet of 1857 Paris
A comet is seen over Paris: in fact the " Comet of 1857" was a hoax. Date: 1857

Racial Type / Jardine 1908
David Jardine Jardine at the races wears a top hat, morning coat, grey striped trousers with a front crease, black shoes, high all round collar, black cravat & a monocle. Date: 1908

Racegoer / Jardine 1909
Robert Buchanan Jardine at the races wears a top hat, morning coat, grey striped trousers with a front crease & black boots with brown spats (gaiters). Date: 1909

Sir Daniel Cooper at the races wears a bowler hat, brown striped lounge suit, half boots & tan leather gloves. Date: 1908

Pinup / Jane in Ack-Ack
Jane in the Ack-Ack. Date: circa 1940

Green Velvet Coat 1899
Long dark green velvet single- breasted coat with large gold buttons & fur yoke, cuffs, collar & epaulettes. Accessories: felt hat with feather trim & parasol. Date: 1899

George Huntley
George Patrick Huntley (1868 1927 ) Man of the theatre, seen here at the races Date: 1908

Helmuth Von Moltke
Helmuth Karl Bernard von Moltke Prussian military chief of staff Date: 1800 - 1891

1857 MUTINY / PICKET / 1857
An outlying picket. Date: 1857

Mussolini / Three Soldiers
BENITO MUSSOLINI Italian dictator consulting with General Vaccari and others in September 1930 Date: 1930

Metchnikoff / Fantasio 12
ELIE METCHNIKOFF (ILYA ILICH MECHNIKOV) Russian zoologist and bacteriologist: a satirical view! Date: 1845 - 1916

Littlehampton - Young woman and her Father-in-law on beach
Littlehampton, West Sussex - A young woman and her Father-in-law reasting up against a groyne on the beach. The older gent is obviously keen to do a spot of birdwatching

London Life cover page
" You never know whos watching you". London Life cover page for an issue focussing on the world of the private detectives. Date: 26 Ferbuary 1966

Cartoon, Guarding Salonika, WW1
Cartoon, Guarding Salonika. Two sailors in white uniform on deck, watching the passing shipping. Date: 1916

Cartoon, An easy target, WW1
Cartoon, An easy target. A German sailor tells his Commandant that a merchant ship has stopped near them. The Commandant replies that in that case hes not likely to miss it. Date: 1916

A Langtry First Night
A theatre auditorium where the audience all have eye glasses or binoculars fixed to their faces due to the fact that the great beauty, Lily Langtry was appearing on stage. Date: 1929

WW1 - The repulse of a Zeppelin raid in Poland
WW1 - The army on the ground are seen positioned by a slope running down a railway track. Soldiers on foot and on horses, aim their rifles attack the enemy above

Couple with a bull terrier
Couple on a country walk with a bull terrier, dated May 1939. Date: 1939

How I Saw the Gold Cup by Tony Sarg, Ascot humour
A vertically-challenged gentleman with binoculars at the ready struggles to get any sort of view of the Gold Cup at Ascot. Date: 1914

WW2 birthday card, dog and cats
WW2 pop-up birthday card, may Good Luck spot you! A spotted dog and two black cats watch the sky with binoculars, as fire watchers and aircraft spotters. Date: circa 1942

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, Maxim Maxim
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, Maxim Maxim -- Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

They ve evidently seen me by Bruce Bairnsfather
They ve evidently seen me. A British soldier, precariously peering out the top of a chimney pot, binoculars in hand, is narrowly missed by an enemy shell

Ranger with binoculars - watching for Kopet Dag Arkal sheep. slopes of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. April - spring

Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Canada
Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. They belong to HMS Egeria, a British Royal Navy coastal survey ship. Date: 1907

Admiring view from second platform of the Eiffel Tower
People looking at the view through telescopes and binoculars from the second platform of the Eiffel Tower (a height of 380 feet)

Training Royal Flying Corps officers in a balloon, WW1
A school in the sky over London town - how officers are trained in the Royal Flying Corps. Balloons flying over the capital

The Reconnoitring Mortar by Heath Robinson
This Heath Robinson cartoon show a new German innovation; soldiers with binoculars being launched into the sky. Several little nuances give it away as a Heath Robinson immediately, the mad premise

Observation by Bairnsfather
Observation " Ave a squint through these ere Bill, you can see one of the -----s eatin a sausage as clear as anythin " A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather featuring Old Bill on observation

Flights into the Future - the first men on the moon
Astronauts land on the moon for the first time and set about exploring and taking samples from the lunar landscape. A imaginary

Flights into the Future - space age exploration
A futuristic prediction of what it will be like when man finally lands on the moon - astronauts will find themselves in a strange world. Date: 1943

Sino-Japanese War
A Japanese border guard on look-out duty uses binoculars to watch a village on the Chinese frontier during the 1937 - 1945 Sino-Japanese War Date: 1937-1945

The Duke of Norfolk by Glan Williams
The Rt. Hon. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Englands premier duke and Earl Marshal (responsible for ceremonial arrangements on behalf of the monarchy)

Satirical portrait of a German colonel, WW1
Satirical portrait of a German colonel (Der Herr Oberst) during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset, Vanity Fair, Spy
MORDAUNT FENWICK BISSET (died 1884) British Conservative Party politician, elected as a Member of Parliament for West Somerset

Woman on rock, Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Woman sitting on a rock admiring the view in Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Date: 1926

Woman with binoculars, Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Woman sitting on a rock using binoculars to admire the view in Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Date: 1926

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