Bear Collection (page 8)

Dancing performing bear, Colne Road, Burnley

Performing Bear early 1900s

Santa Claus with children and presents on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1920s

Photograph of Bear Inn, Noak Hill, Essex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details

Photograph of Bear Hotel, Hodnet, Shropshire. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

Beerenberg (Bear Mountain), Jan Mayen Island
Beerenberg is a stratovolcano which forms the northeastern end of the Norwegian island of Jan Mayen and is a part of Kingdom of Norway. It was used as a whaling base by the Dutch

Lady & gentleman sitting on a 1910 Triumph motorcycle combination circa 1910

Teddy bear couple on a Christmas postcard
Teddy bear couple under the mistletoe on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Brown bear reading newspaper on a German postcard
Brown bear reading a newspaper, Der Bund, on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Happy Families - Miss Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

1950s Vintage Christmas Card. 1950s

Russia Behind Serbia
The Power Behind. Austrian Imperial eagle: I don t quite like his attitude. Somebody must be backing him & indeed the Russian bear stands hidden behind the Serbian fowl. Date: 1914

World War I patriotic
The British lion, the French cockerel & the Russian bear taunting the German eagle. Artist: Mittie Mildred Morris Date: circa 1915

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1940
Loveliness that lasts 1940

Elephant, bear, pig, rabbit and mouse in a boat
An elephant, a bear, a pig, a rabbit and a mouse in a boat called The Ark, watched by a fish. Date: circa 1933

Asiatic Black bear - lying in snow (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Japan

Asiatic Black Bear - in Snow
ASIATIC BLACK BEAR - in snow (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Bruno the Bear, HMS Marlborough battleship mascot
Bruno the Bear, mascot of HMS Marlborough, British Iron Duke class battleship. Seen here with a sailor. Date: circa 1914

Exit tango: satire on the end of a dance craze, 1914
Satirical comment from Punch Magazine on the end of the tango craze. A couple dance off, while a some what more conservatively dressed spirit of dancing gladly wakes up from the "

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1935
Bear Brand supreme superfine 54 gauge stockings. Soft sunshine hatters - so do Bear Brands finest gauge stockings. 1935

Sleepy-Head by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl with her doll and teddy bear is ready for bed. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Russian Bear, WW1
First World War cartoon on a postcard, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on the branch of a tree, looking worried as a Russian Bear starts climbing up towards him

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1934
Bear Brand crepe luxury stockings. " Hallo... long distance? oh, lo darling.. sweet of you to ring me.. you ll be be back for christmas... marvellous... what do I want?

Girl with dog and teddy bear
A girl sits on the lawn in her back garden. A large dog sits next to her with a teddy bear in its mouth. Date: 1928

Bears playing in their enclosure
The reverse of this card reads: Even the bears have to learn how to skip in Switzerland - don t you think they are very clever

All the Fun of the Fair by H. L. Oakley
Charming silhouette cut by H. L. Oakley depicting a travelling fair pay its annual visit to a fair. Merry-go-rounds and coconut shys are shown alongside a fortune teller and performing bear

Polar Bear resting head on a rock

Boy sitting with his teddy bear on a comfy armchair. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Canadian Fur Exhibit - London Exhibition
Canadian Fur Exhibit by Holt, Renfrew and Co, Ltd. of Toronto (est. 1837) at the Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908

A dancing bear and musician
A musician singing and playing a tamborine and his dancing bear at Constantinople, Turkey

The Pirates Cave. By A. E. Bestall
An Illustration of two ladies daring each other to venture into a pirates cave. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years

A Landlady with her a prospective lodger
Seaside Landlady (discussing previous lodger):And to crown it all, she actually wanted to take alf of my lovely pictures down! So I tells er straight, You ain t got no soul for art. I says

Coquette by A. E. Bestall
A colour illustration by Alfred Bestall of a young girl with auburn hair trying to coax a red squirral down from a tree. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

The Char-A-Banc. By A. E. Bestall
A fantasy scene showing two fairies hiding beside a waterfall. They cower from the humans looking from real world above. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)

Mutsuhito / Meiji / Japan / Ri
MUTSUHITO also known as MEIJI Emperor of Japan (1867-1912): a satirical comment on the relationship between Japan and Russia

Bewick Brown Bear
Bewick deascibes the Brown Bear as a savage and solitary animal

Polar Bear / Baxter / 1850
A polar bear stands in an icy setting

Bears / Book of Animals
A brown bear climbs to the top of a pole at the zoo

Koala Bear and Young
Koala bear carrying its young (phascolaretos fuscus)

Bears Find the Chairs
Father Bear, Mother Bear and Baby Bear come home to find that someone has been sitting in their chairs, and has broken Baby Bears chair

Xmas Girl & Teddy Bear
A girl shyly looks at the Teddy Bear she is being given for Christmas

Victorian Scraps - Page of Animals. late 19th century

Prince of Wales in Nepal Terai, shooting bears 1876
Prince of Wales, (later Edward VII) on a shooting expedition in the Terai, crossing a nullah in the jungle. March 1876

Shetland Collie and Teddy Bear
Unusual Friends - Shetland Collie and Teddy Bear in a basket. 1950s

Little boy with teddy bear, puppy and tabby kitten
Unusual Friends - little boy with teddy bear, puppy and tabby kitten, with a flag alongside, possibly at the time of the Coronation. 1950s

Arctic Antics, drawn by Webster Murray
Three mermaids chase a polar bear in arctic sea. Date: 1928

Young Polar Bear - Spitzbergen, Norway Date: circa 1910s

The Swiss Bears of Bern skating on the ice. Date: 1908

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