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Two extremely ragged men reading a smart fashion magazine. Bill Snooks (reading from a fashion paper) - " To be really well dressed
Old Man enquires to Phil May about becoming a modelBrother Brushes - humorous part-self-portrait drawing by Phil May of an old chap enquiring if the artist wanted " a Muddle, Sir?" !! Date: 1890s
Cockney Comment on the purchase of a parrotTwo Pals outside a pub looking at a third bargaining for a parrot with a sailor outside a pub. " Why, es Missus jaws enough. Wot ds e want with a bloomin parrot." !! Date: 1895
New Bridge in Turkey seen from below a camelA new bridge built in Turkey, framed (rather superbly!) by the underside of a camel! Date: circa 1935
Beauty and the Beast - Bathing Humour, featuring a hairy, rather ugly man surrounded in the surf by a bevvy of bathing beauties! Date: circa 1905
Turkish Archytype smoking a pipe conected to a stoveCaricature Turkish Archytype smoking a pipe connected to a stove Date: circa late 1920s
Humorous postcard - Worthing, West SussexHumorous postcard for the seaside resort of Worthing, West Sussex, featuring a bear who has caught a fish and bearing the caption
We are Moving - Humorous Motoring postcard, showing a male driver getting rather over-excited at the wheel, courtesy of the amorous advances of his lady passenger
A girl in need of rescue - Comic PostcardA humorous American seaside postcard with the caption: " Just a Mere Maid looking for a LIfe Guard!" An attractive girl in a revealing red swimsuit calls for help
Men of Merry England - Two loons in the stocks Date: circa 1903
Humorous Pharmacy postcardYoung Boy: " Gimme three-pennorth of pills. Chemist: " Anti-bilious?" Young Boy: " No Sir - Fathers bilious!" Date: 1905
Arrested for wearing a corset advertising placard" Why pick on me, officer? Its my guv nors idea!" A policeman is not sympathetic to the protestations of the beardy gentleman employed to parade in front of a Drapers shop wearing a corset
Tennis Humour - PostcardI can see you do try to keep your end up! Date: circa 1930s
The spider and the three silly flies. Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan as a large spider labeled Free Silver with three flies labeled White, Schurz
A wagon laden with remarkable giant cabbagesGiant Cabbages - freshly picked..... Possibly a bit of creative photography, although you never know....! Date: 1910
A Crystal Set-to by William Heath RobinsonA somewhat startling wireless development witnessed on Hampstead Heath during the broadcasting of an interesting dance programme
Ornithological Humour at the CinemaTwo Usherettes discuss the finer merits of English Garden Birdwatching: " My Husbands a Bird Watcher - Guess what he was getting excited about last night - Blue Tits!" Date: circa 1950s
A Sly Dig by William Heath RobinsonHumorous illustration showing the unfortunate sequence of events due to the energetic trench digging by a little boy on a beach, or, as the captions reads
A Seaside Snap Shot by William Heath RobinsonIngenious method of overcoming the difficulty of taking ones own photograph by bathing devised by the gadget king, and master of silly ideas, William Heath Robinson. Date: 1927
Ridiculous Scottish Comic PostcardA quite utterly ridiculous Scottish Comic Postcard, where a couple are hoodwinked into believing that the actions of a (not very) nearby donkey are actually the amorous advances of their partner
A profitable crop of Onions grown in Canada! I think a certain amount of photo trickery has been employed here.... 1910
A mischievous coupleAn eccentric Welsh couple from Abertillery in South Wales stand out on their balcony, grinning cheekily and posing with silly expressions for the camera
Trick Riders of the 16th and 5th British Lancers. Two riders dressed as a criminal and a policeman act out a chase and in so doing leap over a row of orientals holding parasols
Humorous Postcard - Underwear DepartmentA couple are directed to the Sports Department " Straight through the Ladies Underwear". This comment causes much delight to the Gentleman
Cartoon - Boys playing at soldiers
Our Local Express (2 / 2)A satirical look at an express train service (2/2 - see 10425389). 1907
Georgian Porter carrying large furnitureGeorgian Porter carrying a large piece of strapped to his (bent) back. furniture Date: circa 1910s
Man turning into a catA gentleman visits his Doctor with the distinct impression he is turning into a cat.... by the evidence on show he is correct
Humorous card from Hellingly, depicting a man getting some Fresh air ! Amusingly, Hellingly was the site of a famous lunatic asylum between 1903 and 1994...! circa 1905
Our Local Express (1 / 2)A satirical look at an express train service (1/2 10429191). 1907
Knitting SpaghettiNo this silly man is not covered in spaghetti, he is learning to knit! Date: 1930s
Waitomo Glow-Worm CavesWhy on earth are these fashionable young women putting on such ugly boots? So they can enter Waitomo Glow- worm Caves, New Zealand, silly! Date: 1940s
They can t ration loveBonzo with his entourage of females issued during war-time rationing. Date: circa 1940
Big Game hunter sending his last postcardA big game hunter who has (what rotten luck!) become a lunchtime snack for his intended victim (a very jolly lion) sends his last address which is: In Red Lion, Timbuktu !!!!!!! Date: 1906
Two ice skaters - one falling overQuite from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: " He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural." The perfect accompaniment to this humorous cartoon postcard depicting a suave
Addled Ads - Living in a HORSEAddled Ads - WANTED: " AT ONCE. Man wanted to look after horse, to live in." 1905
Newlywed Newspaper supportA newlywed couple having some bedroom fun. The husband finds a novel approach to reading the newspaper.... Date: circa 1950s
Disembarking from a ship - Mollendo, Peru. Crew members from arriving ships were lifted from their boat via a crane, the Pacific swell being too great for normal landings! circa 1930s
Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910
Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910
Carload of Mammoth Navel OrangesA frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909
Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910
Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910
Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910
Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910
Bulldog eats childAddled Ads, Wanted section. " Bulldog for sale. Will eat anything - very fond of children." A maid looking alarmed as a bulldog has eaten a child in her care. Date: circa 1910s
Cryptic Postcard - Three Abbots empty their bowelsMusings from the papal throne...! A postcard with a caption calculation (equation) which needs to be read phonetically (in French)
Humorous Card - Fleas & the BedpanSilly (yet rather funny) carton postcard, bearing the following caption: SOCIETY GOSSIP - this week the Duchess of Billingsgate in hunting