Holes Collection (#2)

Couple with champagne on a New Year postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Battered Old Shoes Date: 1954

Jacquard Apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham 1843
Jacquard punched coded card apparatus at Becks Lace Factory, Nottingham. The arrangement of the holes in successive cards determined the pattern produced in the lace-making machine to which

Reconstruction of Dubrovnik, Croatia - 10
A woman walks past a bullet and shell marked wall in old Dubrovnik. Part of series for The Daily Telegraph showing the reconstruction of the town after the devastatiing Siege of dubrovnik Date: 1994

Game, The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin, WW1
Game, The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin (The New War Game - manufactured by R.F.& S.). Inscribed Olga. With love from Winifred. Aberystwyth

Christmas card with a pen breaking through it. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with a pencil breaking through it. Date: circa 1890s

Croatian Shepherd, playing a Frula. The frula (also known as svirala or jedinka), is a musical instrument which resembles a medium sized recorder or flute, traditionally played in Serbia

Thermopolium of Asellina. Pompeii. Italy
Thermopolium of Asellina, tavern specializing in the sale of hot beverages. Stone bar with holes to place the amphorae containing drinks

Little boy crying in Balham, SW London
A little boy sitting on the kerb and crying on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Ancient Grain Measures and Calvary at Gruyeres, Switzerland
Ancient grain measures and the Calvary at Gruyeres, Switzerland. After the opening was closed, grain was poured into the receptacles under the watchful eye of the bailiff to ensure that the merchant

Ruins of Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, Peru
Ollantaytambo is a town and an Inca archaeological site in southern Peru some 60 kilometers northwest of the city of Cusco

LCC-LFB Fireman using the sliding pole
Following a visit to the United States, the Chief Officer (Captain Eyre Massey Shaw) saw these devices in American firehouses, and brought the idea into his own fire stations

Apres la Guerre no. 5 - postcard drawn by George Ranstead
Humorous drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur soldier artist of the Great War. This image, one of a series suggesting what life might be like at the end of the war

The Marchington Family outside the Post Office in Dove Holes
Photograph of the Marchington family outside the Post Office which they ran in Dove Holes, Derbyshire, 1913. Mr. Marchington (centre of doorway) was thinking of emigrating to Toronto, Canada

Powdering a Wig C18
A French coiffeur powders his customers new wig. The customer is wearing a protective mask with eye holes cut out !

British soldiers in German dugouts, WW1
British soldiers in abandoned German dugouts, WW1. 1914-1918

British soldiers sleeping in shell holes, WW1. 1914-1918

Oyster on a plate on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a slice of bread with cheese
Greetings card in the shape of a slice of white bread with piece of cheese on top. circa 1890s

Fall at the Rumbling Holes, Glenariff - a view of a cascading waterfall. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Glenariff). Date: circa early 1900s

Three mice eating cheese on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with a clown breaking through, and a comic verse. circa 1890s

Young woman and sailor on a German postcard
A young woman in a swimsuit is carried by a sailor on a German postcard (the caption reads: A sweet burden). The two holes are designed for someone to put their fingers through

Young woman with wooden tub on a German postcard
Plump young woman sitting in front of a wooden tub on a German postcard. The two holes are designed for someone to put their fingers through

Trepanned skull of a man. 3500-3400 BC. Denmark
Trepanned skull of a man. 21-35 years old. 3500-3400 BC. From Dojringe Mose, Zealand. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Tablet of terracotta with inscription in Cypriot syllabic script. Possibily a religious text or a commercial or administrative document. 410-375 BC. From Akanthou. British Museum. London. England

Thermopolium at the intersection of Via degli Augustali with
Thermopolium. Tavern specializing in the sale of hot beverages. Stone bar with holes to place the amphorae containing drinks. At the intersection of Via degli Augustali with Vico Storto. Pompeii

Pressed violets on a handmade greetings card, with handwritten note. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Handmade greetings card with pressed violets and a handwritten note inside. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, The French Consular Triumverate [Triumvirate], settling the New Constitution, with a peep at the constitutional pigeon holes of the Abbe Sieyes in the Background, by James Gillray

Shoe design in pink and green. Date: circa 1930s

Shoe design in blue. Date: circa 1930s

Shoe design in blue and yellow. Date: circa 1930s

Shoe design in maroon and pink. Date: circa 1930s

Early WW1 trenches in the Aisne district, October 1914
Interior view of a trench constructed by the British in the Aisne district, an early example of the trench system which would come to dominate warfare on the Western Front during the First World War

Clemenceau visits ruined and formerly-occupied Alsace
October 1918 - French Prime Minister Clemenceau visits ruined Alsace. Note the official German signs remaining on the formerly-commandered/occupied buildings. Date: 1918

Group of men in snow, Dove Holes, Derbyshire, outside a cottage in January 1908 Date: 1908

Favourite Sayings - Grasp all and lose all
Black and white lantern slide painted scene of mice in a granary making holes in the sacks of corn.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection. Grasp all and lose all. Lantern slide creations of C

Wooden wedges are used to fix a leakage - an old pipe-line carrying chemicals. desert near Kumdag -Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Siberian Lemming muzzle adult nibbles grass by the entrance of the burrow (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Forest dormouse, adult, climbs out of its shelter (a tree-hollow) (Dryomys nitedula). in deciduous forests of South Ural Mountains, nocturnal; South Russia, summer

Sand Martins - quarrel over nest holes in a sand wall of a ravine near river Bolshoi Ugan (Riparia riparia). near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - burrows for shelter in the soil - for the night (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe Tortoise - emerges from an overnight shelter under bushes (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Horsfields Tortoise - Testudo - April

Sphere cover - artillery negotiating shell craters, Matania
British artillery in difficulty among shell craters in August 1918. Shell craters were created by explosions, could easily subside and filled with water in wet weather

Suffragette Votes for Women Match Holder
A ceramic figure of an Old Maid suffragette painted in the colours of the W.S.P.U. She wears a Votes for Women sash and a rather sour expression. Below is the caption, A Match for Any Man

Bullet & shrapnel holes in a Farman biplane, WW1
Diagram showing the extensive bullet and shrapnel damage to a much strafed Maurice Farman Long Horn biplane. Every black hole represented a bullet hole though the machine was still able to fly

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