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Background imageRarely Collection: German Student Duel / 1880

German Student Duel / 1880
A German students duel at Gottingen. The Mensur, as practised by German fraternities, is a fast yet rarely-lethal affair with cuts accepted as marks of honour

Background imageRarely Collection: Oxford Street 1928

Oxford Street 1928
There are still horse-drawn wagons to be seen in Oxford Street among the motor buses, trucks and cabs : note the many shop blinds, rarely if ever seen here today

Background imageRarely Collection: Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito NF Mk. XV

Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito NF Mk. XV high-altitude fighter. This is an example of the rare NF Mk. XV with the extended wing-span wings, pressurised cockpit, 70 series Merlin engines

Background imageRarely Collection: A Map of New Zealand

A Map of New Zealand
A truly outstanding, and large scale, Empire Marketing Board poster map designed by Leslie MacDonald ('Max') Gill

Background imageRarely Collection: A Map Of Irish Free State And Northern Ireland

A Map Of Irish Free State And Northern Ireland
a, map, of, irish, free, state, and, northern, ireland, 1929, truly, outstanding, large, scale, empire, marketing, board, poster, designed, by, leslie, macdonald, max, gill, this, design, for,

Background imageRarely Collection: A Map of Scotland

A Map of Scotland
A truly outstanding, and rare, original Empire Marketing Board poster by the master of decorative map making, Leslie MacDonald ('Max') Gill

Background imageRarely Collection: Essex Yeomanry Memorial, German Bunker Gold Beach

Essex Yeomanry Memorial, German Bunker Gold Beach
The Essex came ashore here at O730 on D-Day equipped with Sherman DD (Duplex Drive) tanks and Sextons (self-propelled 25 pdr guns)

Background imageRarely Collection: Naval Aircraft Factory XN3N-1 9991

Naval Aircraft Factory XN3N-1 9991. The first prototype, modified with an enclosed cockpit which was rarely used in service. Date: circa 1934

Background imageRarely Collection: de Havilland Mosquito NF Mk. XV

de Havilland Mosquito NF Mk. XV high-altitude fighter. This is an example of the rare NF Mk. XV with the extended wing-span wings, pressurised cockpit, 70 series Merlin engines, nose AI Mk

Background imageRarely Collection: A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed

A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed, as per High-speed Flight aircraft. It also has very unusual intake screens, very rarely seen on Meteors

Background imageRarely Collection: A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed, as per High-speed

A very early Gloster Meteor with long-span wings and gun ports removed, as per High-speed Flight aircraft. It also has very unusual intake screens, very rarely seen on Meteors

Background imageRarely Collection: Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the

Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water), disguising itself in waterplants (Desmana moschata)

Background imageRarely Collection: Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to

Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water) (Desmana moschata)

Background imageRarely Collection: DR SWINEY

DR SWINEY Eccentric person who rarely left his home, but left a legacy to the British Museum for a lectureship in geology. Date: 1794? - 1844

Background imageRarely Collection: Paper Chase Scrap

Paper Chase Scrap
Paper chase, a sport rarely performed today because of the risk of polluting the evironment and the destruction of trees involved

Background imageRarely Collection: Table Mountains Cloud

Table Mountains Cloud
Table Mountain, South Africa, is rarely without a tablecloth of cloud which is said to have been created when Dutch settler Van Hunks had a smoking contest with the Devil

Background imageRarely Collection: LEMUR

LEMUR FULVUS is one of the LEMURIDAE, a rarely-seen because nocturnal species who live in Madagascar. (He is not a monkey though sharing monkey-like attributes)

Background imageRarely Collection: Hs Wall-Cockmount Hill

Hs Wall-Cockmount Hill
A view of Hadrians Wall on Cockmount Hill. Archaeological evidence suggests that the wall rarely saw large scale military conflicts, and acted more as a control barrier

Background imageRarely Collection: Smoking Contest

Smoking Contest
Table Mountain, South Africa, is rarely without a tablecloth of cloud which is said to have been created when Dutch settler Van Hunks had a smoking contest with the Devil

Background imageRarely Collection: Charon (Tooke)

Charon (Tooke)
The ferryman who carries travellers across the Styx to the Underworld, but rarely vice versa : in the foreground is Cerberus, a particularly fierce watchdog


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