Joke Collection (#2)

Comet Ship
Man Standing by the Door of the Comet Ship on a Lake Date: 1920s

Men Standing on Ladders Attaching the Rotors Onto a Heli?
Men Standing on Ladders Attaching the Rotors Onto a Helicopter-Car

Squadron Leader Sandbags and His Colleagues Waiting to ?
Squadron Leader Sandbags and His Colleagues Waiting to Be Loaded Onto Aircraft Practicing for Parachute Drops for Empire Air Day 1939 Date: 1939

Grumman F4F Martlet
Sailors Watch As a Royal-Navy Rn Fleet Air Arm Grumman F4F Martlet Catching Arrester Wires of an Aircraft Carrier Seconds before Crashing on the Deck

An Artists-Impression of What London Will Be Like in a F?
An Artists-Impression of What London Will Be Like in a Few Years Hence

Tut-Ankh-Amens Battleplane
Drawing of Tut-Ankh-Amens Battleplane

Royal Flying Corps Bi-Plane Crashed on the Roof of Saund?
Royal Flying Corps Bi-Plane Crashed on the Roof of Saunders Boot and Shoe Maker Shop with School-Children Standing Outside and Men Standing on the Roof Date: 1910s

Men Wearing Black Suits Pushing a Model Biplane with Ver?
Men Wearing Black Suits Pushing a Model Biplane with Very Tall Undercarriage and a Car Parked Behind Date: 1920s

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter and printmaker. Los Caprichos. Aquellos Polvos. Aquatint n 23 published in 1799

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Good Wishes, paying to all good friends 366 Happy Days, from Mr and Mrs Stuart of Kempton Drive, Ilfracombe. Date: 1931

Cheque from the Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Bank, Father Christmas House, 1 Yuletide, Greenland, from Colin Cruttenden in the Print Department, decorated with holly and a pudding. Date: 1983

Christmas cheque from the Santa Claus Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, sending ten thousand kind greetings from N A Aplin to Miss Gerty Doggett. Date: 1891

Cartoon, In the trench club, WW1
Cartoon, In the trench club. Some French soldiers are playing cards for money in their trench when an explosion goes off nearby

WW1 - Cartoon - Jolly trench warfare
WW1 - " The Incorrigibles" - A dark humoured cartoon illustrating trench warefare with irony. Two soldiers meeting in the trenches

Suffragette, Force Feeding Milk. A doctor with a large syringe labelled Milk attempts feeding a suffragette by force. A Prison warder restrains her in the cell while she manages to pull out large

King George V and King Albert of Belgium, Western Front, WW1
King George V enjoying a joke with King Albert I of Belgium near the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Cartoon, tickling an elephant
Cartoon by John Hassall: Tickle! Tickle! Tommy holds up a peacock feather and says: See me make im jump and throw Billy orf. Date: 20th century

Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrow
Visitor to Dottieville Lunatic Asylum which is undergoing structural improvements (to harmless lunatic who is extremely busy wheeling a barrow upside down)

Victorian Spoof Joke 1880s New Year Weatherly
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Two girls with umbrella on a cutout New Year card
Two girls looking through a hole in their umbrella on a cutout New Year card -- Wishing you happiness through the hole Year! Date: circa 1890s

New Year Season Ticket 1889, Health and Prosperity Line -- red cover, with gold lettering, With Greetings for the Season, Available to All. (2 of 2) Date: 1889

First Class Contract, spoof ticket, 25 December, available by all routes to Prosperity, Health and Happiness. Date: circa 1880s

Boiled egg in an eggcup on a cutout New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

The Tatler front cover - Christmas Number 1937
Front cover of The Tatler magazines Christmas number featuring a jester laughing heartily. Date: 1937

Men burnt alive at a party
During reign of Charles VI of France - a practical joke goes horribly wrong when a number of men are burnt alive in their costumes at a party. Date: 29th January 1392

Cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited
Christmas cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited, paying to all true friends 365 happy days, from Mr and Mrs Kittridge of Bridge Street, Cambridge. Date: circa 1920s

Cheque from the Bank of Friendship Unlimited, Goodwill Square Branch, with one thousand kind wishes from Ernestine Edgcumbe to Ernest Cust. circa 1890s

WW1 - Kaiser disappointed with his Zeppelin and U-Boat
WW1 - An illustration mocking the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Here he is depicted in his night robes, holding a down-scaled zeppelin in one arm, and a U-Boat in the other

Royal Navy men in Malta, WW1
Royal Navy men in Malta during the First World War. They are standing on a fire tender made by J Stone of Deptford, SE London. One person is in fancy dress, with their face covered, holding a fan

German boy scouts from West Berlin, Germany, on an outdoor activity at Martlet. Date: 1979

A horse disgusted to find she is eating HUMAN
" Bad Stable Manners" - Eating with Ones Mouth Open! Dobbin disgusted to find out that instead of oats she has in fact been eating HUMAN

Young man and motorcycle on a comic postcard
Young man and motorcycle with deflated tyres on a comic postcard -- Things are pretty flat here. Date: circa 1910s

Scene in the local pub somewhere in Cornwall
Scene of jollity in the local pub somewhere in Cornwall. circa 1980s

Young lady filling up a decanter
A young Lady fills up the whiskey decanter with lemonade as a prank on April Fools Day. Date: 1923

Varsity Sketches - Trapped - Caught by the Master
Varsity Sketches - Trapped - An enterprising student is caught by the Master lighting his cigarette on a street gas lamp! Date: 1907

Pots and jars on a shelf on a cutout Christmas card -- Family Jars. Date: circa 1890s

African man on a Victorian Christmas scrap
African man with shield on a Victorian scrap -- May Christmas shield you from all care! Date: circa 1890s

Front cover of a New Year card, with a verbal joke. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1900s

Inside a pop-up Christmas card, showing a woman skating. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1900s

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

The Dreadnought Hoax, report in The Sketch
Page from The Sketch magazine reporting on the Dreadnought hoax. The incident was a joke played by a group led by Horace de Vere Cole, including the writer Virginia Stephen (Woolf)

Flowers on a saw-shaped Victorian scrap, with the words: Greatest Bargain I Ever... Date: circa 1890s

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Friendship (postcard), from Father Christmas, Chief Cashier. Date: 1911

Cheque from the Bank of Good Fortune, Prosperity Branch (postcard), paying the sum of 365 happy days on someones birthday. Date: circa 1890s

St Valentines Day bank note from the Bank of Loveland
St Valentines Day bank note (postcard) from the Bank of Loveland, promising to pay ten kisses on demand. Date: circa 1890s

Fred Curd, watchman at Rye, Sussex
Fred Curd looking through his telescope at Rye, Sussex. He was one of two men employed by the Corporation of Winchelsea to maintain the Look Out

Illustration, Four and Twenty Blackbirds. Date: 1895

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - chatting with neighbour. circa 1910s

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