Amusing Collection (page 7)

A Rose by Any Other Name... by Patrick Bellew
A young naval officer is given a rather violent telling off by a senior commander for wearing a rose in his buttonhole on board ship. 1929

Cause and Effect by Wallis Mills - tennis fashion cartoon
The new fashion for tennis shorts inspires one player to discard her dress and play in her underwear, much to the consternation and shock of some elderly female spectators. Date: 1931

Cricket Blazers by Fougasse
This is the photograph of our cricket eleven; but I cannot think it really...does us justice. A world of colour neglected by black

What Times High Water? by Lawson Wood
A little monkey looks beseechingly at Gran pop (the wily orang-utan created by artist Lawson Wood) as the rock they are seated on suddenly becomes less roomy with the rising tide. Date: 1932

Russian Royal Princess escaping on the HMS Marlborough
A number of surviving members of the Russian royal family escaped the country at the end of World War I (after the Revolution) from Yalta

Christmas Shopping by Laurie Tayler
A chaotic scene as a bus travels through a crowd of last minute Christmas shoppers. Date: 1921

Nature will Out - golf cartoon by Fitz, 1927
Golfing Styles on the Tee drawn by Fitz. Date: 1927

The Tables Turned by William Heath Robinson
Waits musicians rather put out of action during the festive period due to residents of one street playing jazz tunes loudly from their windows instead. Date: 1921

Chimpanzee roller skating in Cannes
Chimpanzee - Lord Scratchem - enjoying a roller skate down the Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. Date: 1912

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

A Tale of Two Tanks by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
A wartime cartoon by William Heath Robinson showing two tanks charging into battle, only to crash head on, fly conjoined into the air and fall to earth, shattered into pieces. Date: 1917

Am Tag, Heath Robinson 1. German Spies in Epping Forest
Am Tag! Die Deutsche Kommen (Very)! Incidents of the Coming German Invasion of England, by Heath Robinson. 1. German spies in Epping Forest

In the Stretching Sheds of an Ox-Tail Soup Factory. War-Time Economies from William Heath Robinson including an ingenious idea for making the ingredients for oxtail soup go further. Date: 1918

Affront from the Rear by Charles Crombie
A British officer, enjoying a meal in a restaurant is alarmed by the shadow of a fruit bowl being carried by a waiter. Date: 1915

What you can do with the old car by Heath Robinson
Don t scrap the old bus - but use it in the house. An ingenious homeowner adapts the body of a car into a bed and a capacious bath rather than send it for scrap. Date: 1919

For Good Luck by William Heath Robinson
Training black cats to enter the front door at the stroke of twelve on New Years Eve. A contraption to encourage a New Year tradition imagined by the cartoonist William Heath Robinson. Date: 1919

WW1 knitting - comic postcard, Naughty Netta
Naughty Nettas Knitting Knickers for the Seat of War. Humorous postcard inspired by the national effort of knitting comforts for soldiers during the First World War

WW1 cartoon on postcard - munition worker
Expecting a rise shortly. Humorous, First World War postcard depicting a female munition worker jauntily sitting on a barrel of dynamite with a cigarette. A health and safety nightmare. Date: c.1916

You Dirty Boy, Kaiser Wilhelm II cartoon, WW1
A cartoon depicting Europe as a sensible woman with sleeves rolled up, washing the ears of Kaiser Wilhelm II with a washing bowl labelled, Denunciation of Humanity

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

Hint to the Ministry of Health by Heath Robinson
A new fresh air bedroom for the prevention of flu. An outdoor bedroom designed by the ever-inventive William Heath Robinson, built (or rather)

Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath Robinson
The inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger

The Debutante by H. M. Bateman (Tennis at Wimbledon)
Humorous illustration by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman showing a new tennis player on the famous centre court at Wimbledon, feeling very much as if all eyes are upon her. Date: 1926

Joyce Dennys reviews Ascot
A series of humorous sketches by Joyce Dennys rather poking fun at smart society at Royal Ascot. She shows a fashionable lady losing her hat and almost having it picked up as litter

Debutante queuing in the Mall by Rex Whistler
A shy debutante, accompanied by an imperious and matronly chaperone, sits in her chauffeur-driven car in the Mall, waiting to gain entrance to Buckingham Palace where she will be presented at court

The Gentle Art of Excavating - a specially designed skimmer
The beginning of a garden suburb. Excavating a new road with a specially designed skimmer, a typically rickety contraption from the inventive mind of gadget king, William Heath Robinson. Date: c.1938

The Gentle Art of Excavating - Removing top soil
A new type of shovel removing the top soil from a bluff in the Cotswold Hills. A typically elaborate contraption by the gadget king

The Boat Race by Patrick Bellew
Comic illustration of the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge showing, a possibility at Mortlake - if the oars will stand the strain

Vicar captured by Cannibals
Shakespeare Up to Date ! Quote from Pericles - Act IV. Sc. 2: " If you require a little space for prayer, I grant it

Advertisement for National Benzole petroleum -- boy model (Denis Gilmore) in school uniform. 1959

Addled Ads - Humorous postcard - Irish Terrier and Bobby
Addled Ads - Wanted Section Reward. Lost a light brown rough-haired Irish terrier. Had collar with Bobby on plate. Date: circa 1905

Gran pops Cocktail Party by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration depicting Gran pop, the orang utan character created by Lawson Wood, who was a regular feature of The Sketch during the 1930s

Granpop does a bit of plumbing by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his orang utan character, Gran pop embarking on a bit of plumbing by trying to fashion a shower (perhaps)

The Man Who Slept Through H. M. Bateman
While his fellow voyagers cruise up the Nile and enjoy the spectacle of an Egyptian sunset, a man sleeps through on deck, blissfully unaware of what he is missing

Apres la Guerre no. 5 - postcard drawn by George Ranstead
Humorous drawing on a postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur soldier artist of the Great War. This image, one of a series suggesting what life might be like at the end of the war

The Evening Paper by H. M. Bateman
An old gentleman settles down to read the evening newspaper in an armchair by the fire but the news does not meet with his approval

The Absent-Minded Owner of Two Babies, Joyce Dennys
A woman gets a little muddled when fixing her car in charge of her baby. She attempts to add milk to the engine while the baby takes a swig of oil. Date: 1929

The Slider by Arthur Watts
Skaters in a winter sports resort watch with some consternation as a chap slides onto the ice in only his shoes. Date: 1930

Inspiration by H. M. Bateman
" Why, thats the very thing" ! A rather large and curvaceous 1920s lady contemplates a fashion magazine featuring the slim and sinuous fashions of the decade. Date: 1929

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Scandal (under difficulties)
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Scandal (under difficulties) (2/6). Date: circa 1900

Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Auntie Goes Wading
Comic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats durng this period. Auntie Goes Wading (1/6). Date: circa 1900

Women in fancy dress, c. 1916
Two women dressed in fancy dress costume. The theme seems to be clowns, but rather elegant ones The girl on the left wears a checked tunic with a neck ruff

Which is the tallest, by Hilda Cowham
Two small children attempt to measure their height, though it looks as if the little boy is giving himself some artificial help by standing on a book. Date: 1914

Perfect Wives by Joyce Dennys The wife who had influenza too
Joyce Dennys on Marriage: Perfect Wives. No. 1- The Wife who had influenza too. Despite suffering herself, a woman ends up waiting upon her husband who has a serious case of man flu. Date: 1929

Fancy dress on a seaside pier, c. 1930
A jolly group stride down a seaside pier dressed in a variety of unusual or silly hats. Date: c.1930

Dorothy Grimston in The Golden Silence
Dorothy Grimston (1880-1962), actress daughter of Madge Kendall, pictured in The Golden Silence playing at the Garrick Theatre in 1903

Stand Easy by H. M. Bateman
Guards wearing bearskin helmets rest their heads for a moment. Date: 1927

Horse Dealer by H. M. Bateman
Dealer: He changes gear without a sound. A horse dealer uses motoring terminology to sell a horse. 1929

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