Assured Collection

Winged Assyrian Bull
Winged, human-headed bull, from the facade of the Palace of King Sargon II, Khorsabad, Late Assyrian Period, c.725 BC (gypsum)

Buxom Blonde in Bikini
Confident, buxom blonde in a white terry towelling strapless bikini, strikes a classic pose for the camera

Long White Gloves 1912
A rather sly looking debutante puts on an extremely long pair of white kid leather evening gloves. She wears a bandeau in her hair. Date: 1912

Race Day Fashions
Race-goers in black velvet coats, V-neck dresses & silver fox fur stoles. N.B the wrist watch & fur muff & hat with chin strap. One dress has floral panels on the corsage. Date: circa 1913

MISTINGUETT & DOG MISTINGUETT & DOG
MISTINGUETT (Jeanne Bourgeois) wearing a white silk wig which, we are assured, is the latest fashion in head adornment from the French capital Date: 1923

WW2 Christmas card, praying in church
WW2 Christmas card, a soldier, a sailor and an airman praying in church -- With Gods Help Victory is Assured. Date: circa 1942

Costume / Richard Wallace
Art Connoisseur Richard Wallace wears a top hat, lounging jacket, pale grey trousers which appear to be strapped under the instep, a pale waistcoat & necktie. Date: 1873

WW2 poster, Victory of the Allies is Assured, showing a British submarine sinking an enemy ship. Date: 1940s

Monsignor Duca
FRANCESCO BORGONGINI DUCA Cardinal, Vatican dignitary, and author of the Lateran Treaty (1929), which assured the Holy See independence from Italy. Date: 1884 - 1954

The Pied Piper
A rat catcher with a coat of many colours came forward and oprmised to rid the town of vermin for a large sum of money and the citizens were united with him and assured him of his salary

General Franco and his daughter, 1938
Photograph showing General Francisco Franco (1892-1975) and his daughter, Carmencita, with her dog, Dick, 1938. By 1938 Franco had become Leader of Nationalist Spain and his future

Girl in Red Shirt 1950S
Self-assured blonde, wearing a red blouse with the collar turned up, looks haughtily at the camera

Pin-Up / Bathrobe & Hay
Self-assured, confident brunette gazes at the viewer as she leans against a haystack with her terry towelling bathrobe falling off her shoulder

The Scrap of Paper
The neutrality of Belgium is assured by international treaty; in 1914, Germany derides Britain for going to war for a scrap of paper

Bewick / Zebra
(equus burchelli) Along with the aardvark, this relative of the horse is assured of a place in every index of animals, albeit at different ends

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