Bats Collection (page 2)

Schoolgirl cricket players, WW1
Girls at a school in Scotland playing cricket during the First World War. The Tatler suggests they are ladies we expect to see at Lords in the coming days of sex equality. Date: 1915

Desmodus D Orbignyi. From: The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Date: 1839

Baltic Copper Mine Cricket Club, Michigan, USA
Baltic Cricket Team - comprising of miners from Painesdale, Michigan, USA - played in the Copper (Houghton) County Cricket League, founded in 1906

Halloween Greetings Postcard
On Halloween, the witches night, If YELLOW is the lantern light Your future surely will be bright. A witch flies across the moonlit sky on her broomstick

Tall slim cricketer
A tall, slim cricketer with two bats, wearing shinpads

Four children gazing through shop window
Four children gazing through a toy shop window

Nursery Rhymes -- goblin and bats, bird stealing pipe
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a goblin and bats flying about the night sky by moonlight. Below -- a bird steals a plump mans pipe. Date: early 20th century

Departure of Genius by E Kosa - Death of Jaroslav Vrchlicky
The Departure of Genius by E Kosa - A painting mouring the passing of Jaroslav Vrchlicky (1853-1912) - one of the greatest Czech lyrical poets. Date: circa 1912

Young lady cries after receiving a retort from her boyfriend
Taking a Hot Return - cricket analogy used on a humorous(ish?) postcard showing a girl upset after receiving a harsh retort from her beau. Date: 1908

Vase. Neolithic art. Ceramics. Proc: SPAIN. Zuheros. Cave of the Bats

Plaiting esparto objects: sandals, basket. Neolithic art. Decorative Arts. Proc: SPAIN. Albuol. Cave of the Bats

Table Tennis Players

Two bats flying. Date between 1830 and 1850

Vampire bats attack sleepers
Three sleeping men attacked by vampire bats. Date: C.1895

Boys playing cricket
The boys play cricket, ignoring Jack Sparrows request for help. Date: 1937

Boys with bats and stumps frighten the birds away
Boys with bats and stumps, on their way to play cricket, frighten the cockerel and his family away. Date: 1937

Girl and boy playing shuttlecock and battledore

The boys recover their cricket score sheet
Jack Sparrow opens his beak to speak, and the boys recover their cricket score sheet. Jack flies off. Date: 1937

From Tom Thumb by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

Fairie Voices C1860
Fairies dance by the light of the full moon, bats fly overhead, owls perch, frogs croak - and the waltz was performed (with the greatest success) at the Proms ! Date: circa 1860

Five people playing a ball game in a field

A batsman exhibitis four different shots
A combination action photograph of a batsman, in full cricket kit, plays four different shots, from the classic forward defensive shot (left) through to a cover drive (right)

HARROW / ILN 1862
An exterior view of Harrow School, showing boys playing tennis and others standing around with cricket bats and hockey sticks

Ladies into Bats
Alcithoe and other daughters of Mineus refuse to celebrate the feast of Dionysos, working instead, for which they are changed into bats

Vampire Bat - 2
(desmodus rotundus) The American Vampire Bat thrives on warm-blooded creatures, humans included, from which it will suck 25ml of blood in 30 minutes

Vampire Bat - 1
(desmodus rotundus) The American Vampire Bat thrives on warm-blooded creatures, humans included, from which it will suck 25ml of blood in 30 minutes

Caracal (Lydekker)
(felis caracal) Also known as the Desert Lynx, It can spring about 3 metres vertically, and bats flying birds with its paws

Vampire Bat - 3
(desmodus rotundus) The American Vampire Bat thrives on warm-blooded creatures, humans included, from which it will suck 25ml of blood in 30 minutes

Vampire Bats
VAMPIRE BATS attack those imprudent enough to sleep without covering in South America

Vampire Bats / Swan
Vampire bats in flight (desmodus rufus)

Tourists / Tomb of Kings
English tourists, including Edward VII and Alexandra, in the Tomb of the Kings

Sport / Gryllo
A strange game, Gryllo, based on double-wicket cricket, but played with lawn tennis racquets instead of bats. A net at each end of the pitch takes the place of the stumps!

Fruit Bats / R. E. H. Artist
Fruit bats hanging in trees and flying during a full moon

Vampire Bats / Rengade
A vampire bat bites the neck of a sleeping girl in as hammock

Bat / Anon / Col
A bat

Visit / Tombs of the Kings
On a royal tour, Edward and Alexandria visit the Tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings

Orion (Cig. Card)
The Orion constellation seen above a church with a weathercock and circling bats

Vespertilion Bat
BROWN VESPERTLION

Long-Eared Bat (Bewick)
LONG-EARED BAT vespertilio auritus just 4.5 cm in length

Ternate Bat
Vespertilio vampyrus : the TERNATE BAT, one of several varieties of South American bats supposed to be given to sucking blood

Witches & Cauldron
MIDSOMMARNATT in Sweden : While the older witches brew a magic potion, younger ones dance round the cauldron, and cats and bats screech and squeak

The Sorcerer Lancers, by Charles d Albert
Cover for The Sorcerer Lancers, arranged from Arthur Sullivans music by Charles d Albert

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