Bizarre Collection (page 4)

Women and Children of the Sakai Tribe, Malaysia
Wild Group Of Sakals in Perak. The Sakai Tribe (also known as the Lowland Samang) from Perak, Malaysia. The two older women and are suckling young goats (kids) !! Date: circa 1906

Doggy Driver
Next stop Barking! A doggy driver complete with cap and goggles sits in the luxurious surrounds of a particularly fine model toy car

Helen Duncan emitting ectoplasm from her mouth
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan emitting " ectoplasm" from her mouth, containing magazine cut-out head, during sance, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (i)"

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Rickshaw boy of Durban, South Africa
A Rickshaw boy of Durban in their remarkable costume. Introduced from Japan, the rickshaw became a form of transport in Durban in the late 19th century. Date: circa 1920s

Children in fancy dress - clown and princess
Unidentified children in a somewhat sinister fancy dress tableaux. A small boy (at least we assume its a boy) wears a clown outfit

Agra, India - Fabulous Double-decker camel-drawn wagon
Agra, India - An utterly fabulous Double-decker two camel-drawn wagon, with driver perched on the upper level. Date: 1917

Fancy Dress costume - Kitchener pun, 1898
Quite brilliant fancy dress costume on the pun of Kitcheners great with a man dressed as a kitchen range or stove, with the words Kitcheners grate written across the front - a reference to military

A Maori Fire Alarm, Ohinemutu, New Zealand
A quite spectacular Maori Mounted bell at the Te Papaiouru Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, New Zealand - made in memory of Tara-hai-ahia, a well-respected member of the local Maori community

Fantastic Adventures - The Liquid Man
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1941, featuring the story The Liquid Man by Bernard C. Gilford. Weird looking man with green skin is going to drink a steaming liquid out of a test tube

Fantastic Adventures - Daughter of the Snake God
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1942, featuring the story Daughter of the Snake God by William P. McGivern and John York Cabot

The musicians, c. 1617-1618, by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Spanish Baroque painter. The musicians, c.1617-1618. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Hobgoblins, c. 1610
Hobgoblins - a variety of strange creatures, c.1610. Date: C.1610

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

Tatler cover - Lady Moya Campbell on an ostrich
Lady Moya Campbell, nee Brown, second daughter of Lord and Lady Altamont seen riding on an ostrich at Ampthill House, Bedfordshire, the seat of Anthony Wingfield, who owned a remarkable private zoo

BAOBAB / Boab trees - At sunset. Madagascar

Kyoto, Japan - Otani Bridge, which leads to the Nishi Otani Mausoleum. Date: circa 1908

Beira, Mozambique - Private tram-car system
Beira, Mozambique - The private tram-car system - undoubtedly one of the most unusual forms of conveyance in the world. The cars ran on tiny tracks which rose out of the sand

Turkestan - One man riding a bull and two on a donkey! Date: circa 1909

Le Beouf a la Mode Restaurant - 8, Rue de Valois Paris - since 1792 (the approximate date of this image) Date: circa late 18th century

Jubilee Stamp room, North Bersted, Bognor Regis, West Sussex
The stamp room at The Rising Sun Pub, North Bersted, Bognor Regis. Eventually, in the 1920s, the collector and publican Richard Sharpe retired

Large Ivory tusk from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania
Large Ivory tusk, weighing over 200lbs from the Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania, East Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Ripleys Believe-it-or-not - Anato Hayes - Odditorium
Ripleys Believe-it-or-not - Human Automobile Tyre - Wilber H. Roden ( Edema ) is inflated with an ordinary air pump to three times his normal size! Odditorium at The New York Worlds Fair of 1940

Monte to Funchal Wicker Toboggan - Madeira, Portugal
Wicker Toboggan transportation from the mountainous village of Monte, Island of Madeira, Portugal down to the Capital, Funchal

Royal Family meet Anita
Edith Barlow ( Anita ) a very small (26 inches) guest of the Royal family at the Royal Garden Party. Anita became a member of Bertram Mills Touring Circus

Kislovodsk - Russia - a humourous card
A humourous card depicting an unlucky airship passenger dangling rather precariously over the mountains near Kislovodsk, Russia, suspended only by his jacket and the strength of the anchor rope

First House built in Utah - Deuel Cabin, Salt Lake City
First House built in Utah - Salt Lake City, USA - an old log house built in September 1847 by Osmyn Deuel. Pictured here in a former location under a pergola shelter at the Salt Lake Temple Square

Baby feeding directly from a goat
An Indian Baby feeds directly from a goat in possibly the most bizarre and unsettling postcard ever produced.... Date: circa 1920s

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

Two Arabian men in fabulous hats - Algeria
Two Arabian men in fabulous tall straw hats - southern Algeria. Taraza (or Tarazala, Tarazal) are wide-brimmed straw hats worn by both sexes in Morocco and Algeria

Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan, blindfolded during a sance, with her head covered with ectoplasm reaching down to floor. The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Long fingernails of a High Class Chinese Man
The extraordinarily long fingernails of a High Class Chinese Man

April Fool / French Card
A bizarre photograph showing a French gentleman and a fish Poisson d Avril

Ufos / Quarouble, France
At Quarouble (Nord) Marius Dewilde sees UFO landed on railway tracks and has close encounter with bizarre aliens

USA - A showman who walked on his head - descending steps
USA - A showman who walked on his head - shown here descending a set of steps. - Although not named on the card, this is very likely Alexander, part of Ringling Brothers Circus

Mr Louis Napoleon Parker playing a solo on the Megaphone
Mr Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) " playing a solo" on the Megaphone at the Warwick Pageant of 1906 (the only way he could successfully direct a vast cast)

Charity beard trimming event, using a rather large pair of scissors. Date: circa 1980s

The Modern Boy front cover - Wing walkers play tennis
Front cover of The Modern Boy featuring an illustration of two men playing tennis on the wings of a plane mid-flight. Date: 1932

English Packet Boat passes Stromboli
An English Packet Boat passes Stromboli, a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy

M. Spadoni, juggler and balancer performing at the Alhambra pictured holding his assistant, who happens to be riding a bicycle, with one hand. Date: 1899

At a vegetable party - a salad fancy dress
Delightful idea for a fancy dress costume. Why not go as a salad, complete with salad serving spoon and fork? Date: 1903

Fancy Dress - Miss C. Bradhurst as Daphne
Miss C. Bradhurst, winner of first prize in The Sketch magazines fancy dress competition. She has had the original (and rather simple) idea of coming as Daphne, from Greek myth

Fancy Dress - Miss Dora Langroyd as Fireworks
Miss Dora Langroyd dressed as fireworks for the Covent Garden Fancy Dress Ball in 1898. She is covered in a variety of fireworks, which, for the sake of her health and safety, one hopes are fake

New Zealand bicycle display
An impressive display of bicycles adorning a building at Christchurch, New Zealand. Date: 1898

The Lady Globe-Trotter, Miss Florence
Miss Florence, a young American woman, who walked from London to Brighton on a ball in June 1903. Quite literally, a globe trotter. Date: 1903

A Washington Saw Log used as the home for a man and a bear! Date: circa 1907

Roadside Telegraph Poles along the road to Ottercops
Fabulous roadside Telegraph Poles along the road to Ottercops, Northumbria. Date: circa 1909

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a mouse
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome (or elf) riding a mouse to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for)

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