Blindfolded Collection

Reception of Apprentice
An blindfolded apprentice is received into a French Masonic Lodge : he bares his right leg as part of the ceremony

Fortuna by Ernest Board
Painting depicting a blindfolded woman playing a fateful game of cards. Date: 1911

Helen Duncan - Ectoplasm & Teleplasmic hand
Piece of card showing two undated photographs of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand"

Paris Masons, 1740
Freemasons in a Masonic Lodge in Paris perform a ritual. A symbol covered banner is laid on the floor while a blindfolded man, an arm & shoulder bared, is led forth

Sculpture on Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Sculpture on the Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, a Romanesque revival building which was destroyed during the Second World War. Date: circa 1920s

Liberty or Death
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - or Death - the French citizen, though blindfolded, must make his choice !

Hope by George Frederick Watts. late 19th century

Advertisement Illustration, Girls Dancing
An advertisement illustration showing a group of young girls, happily dancing hand in hand, forming a ring around the central blindfolded girl. Date: circa 1939

Adventure
Painting showing a blindfolded man wielding a sword overhead with one hand, and feeling the point of the blade with the other, under a dark night sky. Date: circa 1929

Painted wooden statuette of Osiris. Egypt
Painted wooden statuette of Osiris depicted as a blindfolded man, wearing crown and royal scepters in their hands. Contains the rolled Book of the Dead papyrus of a lady Anhai. 1170 BC. 20th Dynasty

BLIND HOPE AT LOURDES
The crowd throng to Lourdes, led by Hope - blindfolded - and a feeble priest, while Death brings up the rear... Date: 1894

French sourcier Bleton, blindfolded and using no apparatus, convinces a committee of scientists of his dowsing ability. Date: 1782

Music cover, The Gondoliers Waltz, P Bucalossi
Music cover, The Gondoliers Waltz, by P Bucalossi, based on music from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Gondoliers. 1889

Game of Hot-cockles
A popular family game at Christmas, person blindfolded, knelt down with their head in someones lap, while guessing who was hitting them from behind! This was an early form of Blind Mans Buff

GAME / KISSING / FRANCE 1811
Le Baiser devine - a French kissing game, where the blindfolded player has to guess who is kissing her Date: 1811

PURSUIT OF FORTUNE
The pursuit of Fortune - a blindfolded man stumbles hopefully after a plump Lady Luck Date: 1902

Five people hung on gallows - China?
Hand coloured. Five people who have been blindfolded and hung on a complex gallow structure. It is hard to make out but the people look as though they may be African

German poster, What England Wants, WW1
German propaganda poster, What England Wants, depicting a blindfolded man approaching the edge of a cliff with a heavy sack on his back at the beginning of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Initiation of the Knight Kadosh
Taking the left hand of the blindfolded candidate and placing it on the beating body of a sheep, the deceived candidate is then expected to plunge a knife into what he believes is the body of a

The Queen of Sheba: An Amusing Christmas Game
A reworking of blind mans bluff, in The Queen of Sheba the man must approach and kiss a selected girl whilst blind-folded; however the women take advantage of the mans blind-folded state

Kuda Bux and one of his experiments
Undated photograph of Kuda Bux and one of his experiments with " eyeless sight" : with head bandaged, he is duplicating shorthand characters drawn on a blackboard by Lucie Kay

Using Planchette
A girl, blindfolded, uses the planchette with a pencil fixed in it, hoping to receive by automatic writing a message from the spirits in the beyond

Cupids with red heart and ladder on a Valentine postcard -- To my Valentine. Date: circa 1890s

Leonide Pigeaire
LEONIDE PIGEAIRE claims to be able to read blindfolded when she is magnetised : though accused of fraud, the question has never been resolved Date: 1837

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916

People at a comic sports event in a field
People taking part in a comic sports event in a field, which involves each man being blindfolded and apparently guided by a woman with a piece of string. Date: circa 1910s

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Blind Mans Buff
Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Four Geisha Girls playing a game (similar to Blind Mans Buff?) Date: circa 1905

Female Initiation - 3
A candidate is initiated as a Mistress : blindfolded, she is placed on the Tower of Babel, much to her confusion when the blindfold is removed. Date: 1891

Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan, blindfolded during a sance, with her head covered with ectoplasm reaching down to floor. The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Alls Well That Ends Well - title page - the blindfolded Parolles gives away military and other secrets. 1862

France. Par?=?s. Notre Dame cathedral. Portal of St. Anne. Synagogue. AllegorycaI statue depicted with his eyes covered, her crown falling on the floor, the tables of the law reversed

SHOPPING PARTY GAME
Each girl represents an item of male apparel, eg. socks in an imaginary shop. The man, blindfolded, asks for socks and the socks girl kisses him and he guesses who she is! Date: 1930s

Cartoon, German Kultur, WW1
Cartoon, German Kultur or the cultivated truth during the First World War, showing a blindfolded allegorical female figure with flames rising around her. Date: 1915

Germans demand surrender of Reims, 1914
How the surrender of Reims was demanded. Immediately before the bombardment of Reims, German parlementaires came into the town under a flag of truce to demand its immediate surrender

Sphere cover - First Armistice between Russians & Germans
The First Armistice by Fortunino Matania, showing Russian emissaries presenting their credentials to German officers. The first step towards peace negotiations was taken by the Russian

Dutch boy scouts training their sense of smell
Dutch boy scouts wearing blindfolds, training their sense of smell

Suffrage Calendar Artists Suffrage League 1913. A suffrage calendar for 1913, published by the Artists Suffrage League. It shows a blindfolded baby astride a large white goose flying above a snowy

Armed against fate and flags by F C Boyle
A man out walking his dog realises the only way he can avoid flag sellers in wartime is to go out blindfolded and with headphones on his ears

President Woodrow Wilson draft selection, USA
President Woodrow Wilson being blindfolded before he makes the first serial number selection for American men to be drafted into service in World War One. Date: September 1917

The innocent games 1914
Women playing blind mans buff outside in the garden. Date: 1914

Mowing the Cocks Head
73 Year-old Sam Bennett demonstrates the old Warwickshire custom of Mowing the Cocks Head. Blindfolded, he tries to cut off the top of a clump of grass. Date: 1930s

Blindfolded Wine Tasting
Guess the vintage : a lucky blindfolded woman gets to taste six bottles of wine in a cellar lined with bottles of wine! Date: early 1930s

Hypnotist and blindfolded woman with angels on stage. Date 19 - ?

Political cartoon - Joseph Chamberlain as jockey
" Who is Going to Ride it?" Joseph Chamberlain watches on in amusement as three jockeys (including Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (seated) and Herbert Henry Asquith

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded
Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand". The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance with " ectoplasm" wrapped around her head and reaching down to the floor, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (xi)"

First US army recruits
A blindfolded official picks out first recruits for the US army in WW1

When Will the War End?
Military experts, blindfolded and clueless, decide when the war will end and why in 1915. Nobody looks as if they have a clue

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