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When the ell is it going to be strawberry?Old Bill is disappointed to discover that the latest delivery of jam to the trenches on the Western Front during World I is plum and apple yet again! Date: 1915
Liberal posters for the General Election, & their artistsA selection of Liberal party posters for the 1910 General Election, together with a photograph of Francis Carruthers Gould, caricaturist and political cartoonist, who The Sketch says
Timber Barge 1940SUnderneath the arches - timber barges ( Bill and Coral ) being unloaded on the River Thames under Kingston Bridge, Surrey, England. Date: 1940s
Members of Cuddington Golf Club, Surrey, 1933. Date: 1933
Aegithalos caudatus, long-tailed titPlate 28 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
BoobyA pencil sketch from the Drawings Collection of Thomas Malie (1726-42)
Anas platyrhynchos, mallardPlate 221 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, curIllustration from Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the Amazons (1884)
KingfisherPlate 336, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Crested kingfisher
Sterna antillarum, least ternPlate 319 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpeckerPlate 389 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Bruce Bairnsfather merchandiseSelection of items featuring illustrations by the famous World War One cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather including a jigsaw with Bairnsfathers curmudgeonly soldier character Ole Bill grumbling
Craven Lodge Fancy BallA page from The Tatler, featuring photographs and a report on the Craven Lodge Fancy Ball in Melton, Leicestershire, a New Year party with a prehistoric fancy dress theme
Samuel Spencer Bill 1880Samuel Spencer, draper, of Chester
Wild Bill Hickok / PostcdWILD BILL HICKOK alias JAMES BUTLER American frontiersman, stage driver, scout, and US marshal; famous as a crack shot
Patriotic poster, Buy British - Britain Always FirstBritain Always First - poster celebrating Britihs achievements in breaking speed records on land, water, air and rail. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis
Bill Beaumont - England rugby player Date: 1980s
British postcard, Coming down! WW1British postcard, Coming down! Depicting a German airship with the face of Kaiser Wilhelm, plunging to earth in flames. 1914-1918
Old Bill and Co. August 1940" Hey! Mind what yer doin ! Thats the second time you ve got me with that fifth column o yours!" Bruce Bairnsfather pokes fun at rumours of German spies
Old Bill, dog mascot of HMS Falmouth in WW1Rescued from a German fishing trawler in early August 1914 by HMS Falmouth, Fritz the wire haired terrier was promptly re-christened Old Bill by the crew, and adopted as their mascot
Misfitz - Spoony. early 20th century
His Fatal Beauty, by BairnsfatherHis Fatal Beauty OLD BILL: " My wife married me for love, ye know, Bert" BERT (after prolonged and somewhat pained scrutiny of Bills face): " I had been wonderin what it was, Bill
The Intelligence Department, by BairnsfatherThe Intelligence Department " Is this ere the Warwicks?" " Nao, Indenburgs blinkin Light Infantry" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander
The Conscientious Exhilarator, by BairnsfatherThe Conscientious Exhilarator " Every encouragement should be given for singing and whistling" - (Extract from a Military Manual ) That painstaking fellow, Lieut
Bill for lunch at Simpson s-in-the-Strand - 1951Bill for lunch at Simpson s-in-the-Strand - December, 1951. A Christmas treat for a schoolboy! Date: 1951
Alcedo athhis, common kingfisherWatercolour by Charles F. Tunnicliffe (c. 1973)
Jynx torquilla, wryneck, Dendrocopos major, great spotted woPlate 60 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)
A Malayan forest, with its characteristic birdsPlate 9 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)
Sterna albifrons, little ternPlate 73 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Moho nobilis, Hawaii o-oMoho nobilis. Ff. 26, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)
Cygnus columbianus, tundra swanPlate 10 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Scene in New Zealand, with some of its remarkable birdsPlate 13 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)
Semioptera wallacei, standardwingPlate 52, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Supplementary volume, (1840-1848)
Sula capensis, Cape GannetPlate 2 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Dodo - profile and rear studiesTwo studies of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) - a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, extinct since the mid-to-late 17th century
My Dug-Out A lay of the trenches by Bruce BairnsfatherOld Bill shows his prowess as a poet in this cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather. Date: 1915
Key figures behind tariff reform from Birmingham areaThe key figures behind tariff reform from the Birmingham area. Tariff Reform introduced by Joseph and Austen Chamberlain in 1903
Tringa ochropus, green sandpiperPlate 56 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Loxia pytyopsittacus, parrot crossbillPlate 46 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Tringa glareola, wood sandpiperPlate 57 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Ciconia ciconia, European white storkPlate 30 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Plate 327 from The Gleanings of Natural History by George EdPlate 328, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated Brasilian saw-billed roller
Sitta sp. nuthatchPlate 40 from a bound volume called Indian Birds Colouredd. Artrist probably Sheikh Zayn al-Din, possibly compiled by Lady Impey
Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpeckerPlate 16, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby. Size: 380 x 255 mm
The scout Buffalo Bill. Hon. W. F. CodyThe scout Buffalo Bill. Hon. W.F. Cody. Buffalo Bill on horseback, holding smoking rifle, in front of soldiers on horseback. Date between 1872 and 1890(?)
Newsie, ten years old. Going into a moving picture theatre with his papers. Location: Schenectady, New York (State). Date 1910 February
Programme for Exeter Hall, London, 1852Concert given by the new Philharmonic Society, including performances by Silas, Sivori and Piatti. Date: 24th March 1852
Two Parisian Feminists putting up a PosterThe New Professions for Women. An illustration of the French struggle for Womens Rights. Two Feminists put up a poster announcing a womens rights public demonstration/meeting in Paris