Mounts Collection

Sharing Rations - The Troopers Christmas-Box
A British trooper shares his Christmas rations with his horse on the Western Front during WWI. 1916

Highest Mountains
The worlds highest mountains, headed by Kanchenjunga; it has subsequently been established that Mounts Everest and Godwin Austen are both higher

A race of six lifeboats at Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall. Date: 1867

Tom Raw : on Elephant
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, mounts an elephant for the first time

QF 4-inch naval gun Mk XVI on a twin HA / LA mount
QF 4-inch naval gun Mk.XVI on a HA/LA Mk.XIX twin mounting. The Quick-firing Mk.XVI naval gun could be used on single mounts or in dual mounts, such as this HA/LA mount (High Angle / Low Angle)

Gathering seaweed, Mounts Bay, Cornwall, early 1900s

Gathering seaweed, Mounts Bay

Fishing boats, Mounts Bay, Cornwall

Mounts Bay

Mounts Bay Cornwall Victorian period

Mounts bay cornwall near penzance

The Puy Mary, Massif Central, Cantal, France
The Puy Mary - a summit in the mounts of Cantal in Massif Central in France. It is classified as a Grand National Site in France. Nearly 500, 000 visitors come to this site every year

Advertisement for Swan Pens, by Mabie, Todd and Co. Captioned, Send a Swan!, and Give Swans this Xmas!, with illustrations of ladies pens with rolled gold or sterling silver mountings

St Michaels Mount, Mounts Bay, Cornwall
Vintage 19th century photograph: St Michaels Mount, Mounts Bay, Cornwall

Cavalcade at Longchamp racetrack
Cavalcade de Longchamp. Two incroyables (fops) mounted on heavy dray horses instead of thoroughbreds at Longchamp racetrack

Christmas present - Monkey Jug 1893
Monkey Jug, to put on your Christmas list! In finest crystal glass with chased hall marked silver mounts. Date: 1893

Advert for Mappin & Webb warming dishes 1906
Selection of tableware, muffin dishes, breakfast dish, gadroon mounts and dish warmer with aluminium top. Date: 1906

Two French donkey-boys with their mounts : note the elaborate saddle for carrying infants. Date: 1905

Tom Raw : on Elephant
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, mounts an elephant for the first time Date: 1828

French aides du camp - general major and marshal with their mounts Date: 1813 - 1815

The skipper of a small ferry boat, Marazion, Cornwall
The skipper of a small ferry boat waits for passengers on the slip at Marazion, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. England. The boat is used at high water when the causeway to the mount is flooded

Turkish Earthenware Iznik Jug - Utrecht Silver-gilt mounts (hallmarks of about 1580). Date: 16th century

Japanese katana sword, 1940. With scabbard. Blade mounted in service, tachi-style mounts of World War Two. Surrendered by Gen Tamoto, Japanese Commander, to Lt Col A K Crookshank, OBE, 6MLI

A knight in armour mounts his horse. Date: 1620

Officers sword, 51st Foot, 1809 (c); blade is curved, flat backed, unfullered with a spear point, and is double edged for the last 10 in; steel stirrup guard; steel hilt mounts

Lieutenant Rimington - breaker & teacher of Army horses, WW1
Lt. Mike Rimington, late of the 37th Lancers, seen breaking unruly and vicious horses for the British Army at the Underdale Hall Remount Department near Shrewsbury in 1916

Horse having operation under chloroform, WW1
A horse is operated on under chloroform by the Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War. Date: 1915

Grand National at Aintree by Gilbert Holiday
The steeplechase horse race, the Grand National, run at Aintree, Liverpool showing the Canal Turn which provides many thrills

Adams Universal Microscope - made by George Adams Snr. about 1755 for King George III, while he was still Prince of Wales

Manchurian Criticism
At Harbin, Manchuria, the author of a play, disapproving of the production, mounts the stage and attacks the principal actors with a hammer he happens to have with him. Date: 1933

Cornwall / Mounts Bay 1909
Cornish scenery: Mounts Bay Date: 1909

Victorian spirits cabinet 1890
New pattern" Falstaff" spirit case, in a traditional oak barrel design with three bottles with stoppers and glasses that can be lifted out on a tray. Date: 1890

C Ward. Quex Park Vad Hospital
C Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in the second gallery of the Powell-Cotton Museum. B Ward, in the first gallery, was through the archway on the left of the photograph

Staff & patients in C Ward of Quex Park VAD Hospital. The patients are all wearing hospital blues with the exception of one man who is a Belgian solder (holding a tray with glasses)

Foyer Door Handles with Doverite grips in a variety of colours - particularly suitable for cinemas and theatres ! Date: circa 1920s

Paris, France - Saint Cloud. Date: circa 1830

Aiguille, France - Mount Date: 1860

Monday morning exercise, Army Remount Depot, WW1
Unruly mules proving hard to control during a Monday morning exercise at an Army Remount Depot with mounted N.C.Os rounding them up. Date: 1916

Our Women in War Time - ladies looking after army remounts
Page from The Tatler reporting on the ladies of Berkshire who, under the generalship of Mr Cecil Aldin, South Berks (famous sporting & animal artist as well as Master of the Foxhounds)

The Outsider by H. H. Harris
Humorous illustration showing an episode during the Grand National at Aintree - as all the jockeys and their mounts take a jump

Cascade Mountains USA
Two native Americans pause during their hunt : in the distance are mounts Jefferson, Hood and Adams, though the two natives have other names for them. Date: 1857

Boy getting on to his new Bicycle
Interesting photograph of a boy getting onto his new Bicycle. He is obviously used to riding a Penny Farthing as his method of mounting the bicycle is akin to the way one had to mount a Penny

Exercising the mounts. Illustration shows a bloated William Jennings Bryan with a paper extending from a pocket labeled Membership Fat Mans Club

17th Lancers - Mounting
Despatch Orderly mounting outside the troop stable - 17th Lancers. A clean and smart turnout is required! Date: circa 1916

Too Talkative - Distracted lady driver
Too Talkative - A distracted lady horse cab driver, deep in conversation with her smartly-dressed male fare, forgets where she is heading and mounts a kerb - Place de la Concorde, Paris, France

Sewage Outfall
Raw sewage spewing into the sea and onto the beach at Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall, England. Date: 1980s

Grenadier Guards drummers, Trengwainton House, Cornwall
The Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards performing on the front lawn of Trengwainton House in Penzance, Cornwall in front of a large audience

Zurbano Insurrection
During the prevailing unrest, general Zurbano mounts a rebellion, but he will be shot on 21 June 1845

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