Amusing Collection (page 5)

Revelations from the Riviera -What the smartest
Revelations from the Riviera (1927) - What the smartest women wear at Monte Carlo is prophetic of what will be worn in London and Paris in the subsequent seasons

A large group of children at Butlins are entertained by a single male Redcoat. Date: c.1950

A little girl stands to attention and grimaces for the camera in a garden holding a doll, while her toy bunny sits close by. Date: c.1950

A band, most of whom are wearing disguise of heavy eyebrows and moustaches, presumably a gimmick during a performance, or just for the hell of it

Some Rejected Posters by John Hassall - Makes the Hair Grow. John Hassall reigned supreme as the poster king during the first two decades of the twentieth century

A bobby on the beat, who has stopped to enjoy a bit of pie from a friendly cook in one house, gets surprised by the heat of a stove. Date: 1912

Follies poster by John Hassall
Poster by John Hassall for Harry Pelissiers entertainment troupe, The Follies, showing the audience rushing for the exit. This rather contrary approach by Hassall turned out to be incredibly popular

The Visitor: "Its not meant to be comic is it?"An artist
The Visitor: " Its not meant to be comic is it?" An artist, better-known for his humorous cartoons in the weekly illustrated periodicals

Front cover of Printers Pie magazine for 1911, illustrated by John Hassall and featuring one of his typical medieval characters chasing after a dog

Pity the Unemployed by John Hassall
A man pushing a cart with the sign, Pity the Unemployed disappears into a pub. John Hassall, author of the illustration includes the caption, " With apologies to the real unemployed."

Cocktails and Crinolines, 1929 Cocktails and Crinolines: That Victorian Revival. 1
Cocktails and Crinolines: That Victorian Revival. 1. We are told that womens costumes tend to become more and more Victorian. 2

A Hurried Courtship by John Hassall
A Hurried Courtship - Perfect Strangers Meet He: Ain t that a swagger marriage? She: Don t I wish it were moine! He: Don t I wish it were moine! She: Don t I jes wish it were both ours

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Table turned on the diner - " See that you re polite to our Waitresses - we can get plenty of customers." 1945

Six delightful young ladies - actually men dressed up as women. They do look rather fetching though. Date: 1920s

Ian Hassall, second of artist John Hassalls five children, pictured posing in his costume at the Mansion House Childrens Fancy Dress Ball in January 1911

An all-girl pierrot troupe from the First World War, together with one chap (who is perhaps their musician?). The back of the postcard goes

Cricket team in blazers by Fougasse
" This is the photograph of our cricket eleven, but I cannot think it really - does us justice." A cricket team suddenly look very different when a colour image reveals the rainbow spectrum

Push and Go by Heath Robinson
The collapsible car, specially designed to be taken away conveniently in the holidays. Another brilliant idea from William Heath Robinson. Date: 1925

Daphne Pollard as Mrs Stone Hatchett, Zig-Zag, Hippodrome
Daphne Pollard in the comic role of Mrs Stone Hatchett in the Stone Age scene, part of " Zig-Zag!" the 1917 revue at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1917

The Rossow midgets at the London Hippodrome
The Rossow midgets, brothers Frank and Charlie, performing at the London Hippodrome. The highlight of their act was a boxing match. Date: 1902

Advert for Luvisca pyjamas by Lawson Wood 1931
Delightful advertisement by Lawson Wood for Luvisca pyjamas, showing a Scottish father playing the bagpipes in order to rock a concerned looking baby to sleep. Date: 1931

A Little Disinfectant by H. M. Bateman
A speaker on a soap box, clearly with Communist leanings given the red flag, is sprayed by disinfectant, much to the delight of an assembled crowd. Date: 1932

Charles Woods stables at Jevington
Training on the Sussex Downs - a visit to Jevington. Charles Woods stables. And Murray King as Blib the amusing schoolboy, in Blue Bell in Fairyland at the Vaudeville. Date: 1902

The Bristlewoods See it Through, WWII cartoon
Mrs Bristlewood: " The idea of your going fishing in wartime! And wheres your gas-mask?" Mr Bristlewood: " If you want to know, my gas-masks here - and my knitting too"

Just an old-fashioned girl - skirt lengths go down in 1930
Cartoon commenting on the sudden change in hemlines in 1930, which went down to the floor once more. Suddenly, the modern flapper girl of the mid-1920s with her short skirts looks rather

I don t want him, my dear by H. M. Bateman
" I don t want him, my dear - you buy him." Two sophisticated women regard an unpromising male specimen and discuss the merits of purchasing him. Date: 1930

Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar in The House that Jack Built
Theatrical double act Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar dressed as what appears to be Mickey and Minnie Mouse in a scene from " The House That Jack Built"

Box lid, Happy Families playing cards

Children in fancy dress - old woman who lived in shoe
Wonderful photograph showing a group of children in fancy dress. Most spectacular is the huge shoe accommodating about six of them

Children in fancy dress - bird costume
Two children in fancy dress - the child on the left is in a particularly fabulous bird costume. Date: c.1950

A Good Turn - Get Well Soon
A little girl reads a book with an invalid friend who is recuperating in bed. Date: c. 1930

That Oxford Cut - Oxford Bags cartoon
Shorty: " D yer mean ter say, Ginger, you ad an offer o a pair of them Oxford trousers once? Why didn t you take em?" Ginger

Jazz band on skis at Murren
A jazz band gamely playing their instruments while on skis at Murren in Switzerland. Date: 1927

Holding up the pillar
Three men and two small children pretend to be supporting the weight of a rather precariously leaning pillar - part of quite a grand countryside entrance way. Date: late 1930s

Farmer loses control of his pigs
Pat in trouble. Farmer Pat loses control of his pigs; he has hold of one by the tail and one by the hind leg as they try to go off in different directions, leaving him spreadeagled on the ground

Milking a fake comedy cow at the seaside
Two ladies posing for a comedy photograph at an unidentified British seaside resort. One sits on a fake cow while the other pretends to milk it from some alarmingly authentic looking udders

Group in fancy dress, c. 1927
A jolly group of party revellers in various forms of fancy dress including a jockey, a gypsy (a favourite them of the 1920s) and a convict. Date: c.1927

If Unhealthy, Be Healthy by William Heath Robinson
If Unhealthy, Be Healthy: If Healthy, Be Healthier! Keep Fit Exercises: 1. The Bathroom Window Sill Bite - for strengthening the front teeth and developing the muscles of the legs and back

Sporting with Winter Sports by H. M. Bateman - Lugeing
Sporting with Winter-Sports: Bateman Eccentricities. V. Lugeing: " The Achtung-ers". Date: 1912

Sporting with Winter Sports by H. M. Bateman - tobogganning
A tobogganist takes a rather steep hill, wins the cup but limps away bruised and bandaged. Date: 1912

The Ten Commandments of the Dancer - Bateman views
The Ballroom Decalogue - a satirical presentation of it by H. M. Bateman. Date: 1912

Sunday afternoon at Holland Park Rink by H. M. Bateman
Fashion on the floor: A wicked caricature. A comic artists view. Bateman on a Sunday afternoon at the Holland Park rink at a time when rinking was at the height of popularity. Date: 1912

Stop Me and Buy One - ice cream cartoon
" Well...I suppose we d better buy one." An ice cream vendor has a collision with a couple in an open top sports car, but his day can only get better

Patriotic fancy dress, c. 1910
A man dressed up as a woman pushing a pram festooned with streamers and flags and containing three children in bonnets and bedecked straw hats

The Losing Lady And The Cough-Drop, A Hectic Moment At Monte Carlo by H M Bateman. The innocent cough-drop and the worried officials

Take My Tip The one way to follow horses with success
Take My Tip.. Theres only one way of following horses with any success... AND THIS IS IT! circa 1930s

The Man Who Bid Half a Guinea at Tattersalls by H M Bateman. Obviously half a guinea is not what you should bid for a horse. This illustration shows the establishment in turmoil

Patent Applied For, Heath Robinson WW1 cartoon
The Kitchener Boche-Bayoneter - an airy invention by William Heath Robinson. An uncharacteristically brutal invention suggesting that a trench sized board covered with bayonets be lowered

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