Flaming Collection (#2)

Fantastic Adventures - Secret of the flaming ring
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1951, featuring the story Secret of the flaming ring by P. F. Costello. A young beautiful woman and a futuristic looking warrior are surrounded by flames

Four oval vignettes on a Christmas card, with Cupid kneeling by a flaming altar, Venus in a shell, Cupid again with doves, and a young man planting a tree

Snow scene with skaters on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The Still Alarm by Joseph Arthur
Inside page of a promotional flyer for The Still Alarm by Joseph Arthur. (fourteenth Street Theatre, New York, 30th July 1887). First produced in England Princesss Theatre, 2nd August 1888

WW1 - Zeppelin downed over Potters Bar
WW1 - An illustration depicting the four stages of a Zeppelin raider bursting into flames, and its fall through the starry night sky over Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England

The great Sylt raid by G. H. Davis
The great Sylt raid: a bomber attacks in the glare of searchlights, flaming onions and bursting star shells. Attacking Hornum, the seaplane base on the southern end of the German island of Sylt

British night bombers by G. H. Davis
British night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War

Elijah taken to heaven in the chariot of fire
Elijah taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire. circa late 19th century

Cupid with flaming torch and flower. Engraving, probably by (or after) Thomas Holloway, from Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden: a poem in two parts. Page viii, Proem of Vol. 2. Date: 1791-94

Advertisement for a Guiel Automobile
The first poster design from the French Car Manufacturer Delahaye. Date: 1899

Mythological Buddhist or Hindu figure, full-length, standing, facing front, with long green sash and flaming green halo behind his head. Date 1878?

Wedding of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
State Entry into Berlin of Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921) and Prince Wilhem of Prussia (later Kaiser Wilhelm II) (1859-1941)

Patriotic Italian postcard featuring an athletic barely-clad man before a flaming altar and a crown of thorns, definitely stressing the importance of some form of personal sacrifice being beneficial

Greek fire on lance
An infantryman carries a flaming lance

Greek fire launcher
Machine for attaching Greek fire to fortress gates

Greek fire ship
A 13th century covered galley, equipped to drop barrels of Greek fire

The war in America: a night alarm in the Federal camp
Night scene with Federal soldiers signalling with a flaming torch over the river banks of the Potomac to Headquarters at Washington

Maid Brings in Pudding
The maid brings in the flaming pudding

Sweyn Tricked by Scots
The Scots drug and then attack their Viking invaders. The Viking leader Sweyn of Norway, however, escapes thanks to his two attendants

Paris Catacombs (Mono)
With flaming torches, sighteers marvel at the subterranean catacombs of Paris

Zeppelin Shot Down
The end of the " baby-killer" ; a flaming Zeppelin plunges earthward

Cresset Carried Instreet
Two men walking through the night carry a flaming cresset - a basket on a pole, containing flammable material - to show them where they are going

Digging in the Catacombs
Early Christians, with pick, shovel, and a flaming torch, dig themselves secret places for their meetings in the Roman catacombs

Electric Fire Brochure
A uniformed maid carries a flaming plum pudding into the dining room where the family sit in formal dress, warmed by the glow of a Creda electric fire. Date: 1933-4

Indian and Hookah
An Indian nobleman talks with a friend while he smokes his hookah, accompanied by music from two female performers : another servant holds a flaming torch to light it

Fitzgerald Cover
Cover of a paperback reprint of the famous novel of flaming youth

Iln / Foggy London / 1867
A foggy night in central London - boys with flaming torches offer to guide pedestrians, while horse-drawn buses and carts find their way as best they can

SNAPDRAGON
Mama presides over the snapdragon bowl while the children snatch the raisins from the burning brandy & try to eat them before they stop flaming

Carrying Flaming Pudding
Cook carries in the flaming pudding

Hannibal at Casilinum
SECOND PUNIC WAR : Hannibal, the Carthaginian leader, at Casilinum, sends cows with bunches of burning twigs attached to their horns, causing the Roman garrison at Callicula to flee in fear

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