Unusual Collection (page 5)

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire - Doorway
The Doorway of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire - Sitting Room
The Sitting Room of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

Cute, miniature Houseboat and occupant. Date: 1924

The Old Forge, Penshurst, Kent - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II in a canoe
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II going for a spin in a perissory (perissoire), a type of long canoe. Date: circa 1905

White Star Line, Stonier Wisteria pattern egg cup
White Star Line, unusual oversize First Class Wisteria pattern Stonier and Company egg cup with flag logo. 2ins

White Star Line, Stonier OSNC Bradford teacup and saucer
White Star Line, unusual Stonier and Company Oceanic Steam Navigation Company OSNC Bradford teacup and saucer. 2ins. and 6ins

White Star Line, Stonier OSNC Bradford egg cup
White Star Line, unusual Stonier and Company Oceanic Steam Navigation Company OSNC Bradford egg cup. 2ins

Collection of ocean liner postcards, and Queen Mary model
OCEAN LINERS: Collection of mostly real photo liner postcards (approx. 25), including unusual Queen Mary examples, Berengaria and Aquitania, plus a Queen Mary model

RMS Mauretania, on board silk postcard
RMS MAURETANIA: Unusual on board silk postcard, postally used Queenstown 1908. Date: 1908

Stork-powered baby transport! Date: circa 1910s

The Nunnery, Church Street, Dunster, Somerset. A terrace of three houses, three storeys tall, built of stone with a slate roof

British Military Campaign to Tibet - golf at Gyantse
A game of golf at Gyantse, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa, in 1904

Aircraft carrier HMS Furious
Royal Navy - Aircraft carrier HMS Furious, at a time when she had a flush deck with no island and an unusual side funnel, which proved unsuitable due to excessive heating. Date: 1925

Hauling the lifeboat through a narrow street Date: 1920

Forest Tiger
This watercolour painting shows a tiger like creature with the facial features and hands of a human, creating quite an unusual image, it is prowling through a forest of trees and colourful flowers

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - commemorative vase
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - unusual Carlton ware memorial commemorative vase, formerly the property of Brian Ticehurst, expert on the Titanic. 2 inches. Date: early 20th century

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - commemorative jug
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - unusual Carlton ware memorial commemorative jug, formerly the property of Brian Ticehurst, expert on the Titanic. 2.25 inches. Date: early 20th century

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - commemorative thimble cup
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - unusual Carlton ware memorial commemorative thimble cup, formerly the property of Brian Ticehurst, expert on the Titanic. 1.75 inches. Date: early 20th century

White Star Line, RMS Olympic - souvenir plate
White Star Line, RMS Olympic - unusual milk glass souvenir plate bordered with the American flag and American Eagles. 7.5 inches. Date: 20th century

White Star Line - demitasse cup and broken mug
White Star Line - Bradford pattern Second-Class demitasse cup, and broken Third-Class mug. Date: 20th century

Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase, HMS Medina
Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase - The Royal Yacht, HMS Medina, 1911-1912 Coronation Expedition to India for the Durbar. Designed and made for Her Majesty by Waring and Gillow

Post Office Wireless Stations and Fisheries
A simply magnificent, large scale, poster map of Post Office Wireless Stations commissioned by the General Post Office and designed by Leslie MacDonald Gill, 1939

The Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
The Magnetic Hill is an example of a gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain. It is located at the northwestern edge (in the Magnetic Hill Area)

Beira, Mozambique - Private tram-car system
Beira, Mozambique - The private tram-car system - undoubtedly one of the most unusual forms of conveyance in the world. The cars ran on tiny tracks which rose out of the sand

Three little boys go for a ride on the back of a bullock. Free Rides - Hurry up now for a ride, room for just two more outside. Date: circa 1909

St. Michan's Mummies - St. Michan's Church - Dublin, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Cruise liners - five postcards. RMS Titanic post-disaster card, real photo card of the Olympic, plus Adriatic, Minnehaha and Setiembre. Date: 1910s

White Star Line, Sailings, published June 1912. 30 x 6 inches. Date: 1912

Transatlantic Sailings leaflet, various shipping lines, mentioning largest steamers in the world, Olympic and Titanic. The sailing schedule shows an image of Olympic and Titanic on the cover

RMS Titanic - Archibald Gracie, passenger and survivor
RMS Titanic - Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, First Class passenger and survivor, who died in December 1912 from complications following exposure to icy water

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, carrying troops, WW1
White Star Line, RMS Olympic - poster in sepia of the White Star Line Triple Screw Steamer Olympic Carrying Troops to the Great War

White Star Line, agent's desk calendar
White Star Line - unusual agent's desk calendar for 1928. Each month depicts a picture by Charles Birchill with a song on the reverse. 7 x 8 inches. Date: 1928

Cover design, Southampton Docks and its Shipping, hardbound volume. Date: 1896

Zeppelin airship - two cover designs
Zeppelin airship on two cover designs. Unusual USS Akron promotional two-sided advertising card, copy of the Texaco Star showing the Zeppelin airship flying over New York

Zeppelin airship - three postcards. Promotional postcard selling contributions to the Zeppelin Co, postally used 6 February 1926. Unusual Hans Schuize airship/biplane postcard

White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, brochure
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic - unusual brochure, Second Class Rates, 1912. A ten page advertisement brochure issued by White Star Line

White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, brochure cover
White Star Line, Olympic and Titanic, unusual brochure, Second Class Rates, 1912. A ten page advertisement brochure issued by White Star Line

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic rates
White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic Second Class Rates. A ten page advertisement brochure issued by White Star Line, quoting 1912 Second Class rates for RMS Olympic and Titanic

White Star Line - RMS Britannic, five postcards - real photo and other postcards including Britannic's launch and an unusual photo of the ship in hospital livery

RMS Britannic - two postcards
RMS Britannic - postcards of HMHS Britannic (hospital ship) with notations of the sender's cabin location (top), and the builders models for Britannic II of 1874 and Britannic III of 1914 (bottom)

RMS Titanic - postcard, Wallace Hartley, Captain Smith
RMS Titanic - unusual jumbo size postcard by A. Stott of Barnoldswick, The Wreck of the Titanic, with portraits of Wallace Hartley (violinist and bandleader) and Captain Edward Smith

RMS Titanic - ivorine letter opener
RMS Titanic - unusual ivorine letter opener, with the liner depicted on one side and her details on the other

RMS Titanic - RMS Virginian Christmas card
RMS Titanic - unusual RMS Virginian Christmas card for December 1912. The Virginian was one of the vessels that took Titanic's distress calls

Unusual period lifeboat davit block, discovered in a Southampton salvage yard. 18 inches

Map of Scottish Car Rally
A map by A. E. Taylor showing the itinerary and some of the incidents of the Scottish Motor Rally of 1933. Date: 1933

Watching Racing at Brooklands
Spectators on the River Wey, watching the action on the Brooklands race track immediately overhead. Date: 1933

Joan Crawford Fan Mail
A fan's letter to Joan Crawford, using a portrait of her face in lieu of an address. Date: 1933

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