Bizarre Collection (page 5)

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)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a frog
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome riding a frog 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 breakfast...!)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Goblin riding a hare
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Goblin riding a hare 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 breakfast)

Costumes at the Artists Costume Ball
A variety of outfits, purchased from London department store, Marshall and Snelgrove, worn by guests at the Artists Costume Ball held at the Princes Galleries in February 1914

Lobster fancy dress costume
A lobster fancy dress costume from 1911 of red satin, accompanied by an under dress of white sun-ray pleated silk, the bolero laced with knitted red ribbons tied in a tier of bows to simulate

An inquisitive Boy poses a puzzler to his Father. " Are we made of Dust Pa?" - " Certainly" - " Well, why don t we turn to mud when we drink?" !! Date: circa 1910s

Poor Mr Meeker surrounded by his wifes visitors things
Mr Meeker doesn t object so much to his Wifes entertainments as he does to the way she uses his room for the gentlemans things !! Date: 1906

Fantastic Adventures - Minions of the Tiger
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1946, featuring the story Minions of the Tiger by Chester S. Geier. A young beautiful woman stares into the distance like in trance

Russian Soldiers hatching out of eggs - Easter Postcard
A rather odd Easter Greetings card depicting a unit of Russian Soldiers hatching out of eggs! Date: circa 1910s

Fantastic Adventures - The Face beyond the veil
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1950, featuring the story The Face beyond the veil by Franklin Bahl. Two solders are surprised by a huge woman face which appears in a blue fountain. Date: 1950

Fantastic Adventures - Warrior Queen of Mars
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1950, featuring the story Warrior Queen of Mars by Alexander Blade. Two women rise their spears attacking on something

Fantastic Adventures - Goddess of the Fifth Plane
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1942, featuring the story Goddess of the Fifth Plane by William P. McGivern. A young beautiful woman with a wand stands next to a black roaring lion with

Fantastic Adventures - Mystery of the lost race
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1942, featuring the story Mystery of the lost race by E. K. Jarvis. Young woman fires with a futuristic looking weapon at tanks

Fantastic Adventures - Cats of Kadenza
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1944, featuring the story Cats of Kadenza by Don Wilcox. Old man stares terrified in a mysterious glowing hand mirror. Cats scramble over some skulls. Date: 1944

Fantastic Adventures - Jongor of lost Land
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1940, featuring the story Jongor of lost Land by Robert Moore Williams. Warrior sits on the back of a huge dinosaur and tries to shoot a attacking pterosaur

Fantastic Adventures - Queen of the ice men
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1949, featuring the story TITLE by S. M. Tenneshaw. A huge beautiful woman stands in front of a red mountain and looks angrily at two men in snowsuit

Fantastic Adventures - Shadow of the Sphinx
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1946, featuring the story Shadow of the Sphinx by William Lawrence Hamling. A scary looking skeleton lies its hand on the shoulder of a young beautiful woman

Fantastic Adventures - The house that hate build
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1953, featuring the story The house that hate build by Peter Dakin. A huge weird looking face appeared in the distance watching how two men trying to rescue

Fantastic Adventures - Nine worlds west
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1951, featuring the story Nine worlds west by Clee Garson. Green skinned weird looking man watches a young screaming woman falling into a burning abyss. Date: 1951

Fantastic Adventures - When the world tottered
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1950, featuring the story When the world tottered by Lester Del Rey. Young beautiful warrioress rides a white horse through a blizzard. Date: 1950

Fantastic Adventures - Mistress of the Djinn
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1950, featuring the story Mistress of the Djinn by Geoff St. Reynard. The Queen and the Kind from a deck of cards come to life and are in each others arms

Fantastic Adventures - The sword of Ra
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1951, featuring the story The sword of Ra by Geoff St. Reynard. Three men look down at a beautiful young woman who will be mummified by a egyptian priest

Fantastic Adventures - Land of the Shadow Dragons
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1941, featuring the story Land of the Shadow Dragons by Eando Binder. Man in overall defend a pretty woman from a huge dragon after their plane crashed. Date: 1941

Fantastic Adventures - Forgotten Worlds
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1948, featuring the story Forgotten Worlds by Lawrence Chandler. A muscular man surrounded by a bizzare glow holds the globe in his hands. Date: 1948

Fantastic Adventures - The Tale of the red dwarf
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1947, featuring the story The Tale of the red dwarf who writes with his tail by the red dwarf. A big plump looking devil is writing with his own tail in a book

Fantastic Adventures - The Court of Kublai Khan
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1948, featuring the story The Court of Kublai Khan by David V. Reed. Mongolian king fights a man in a suite while a young pretty woman in traditional mongol wear

Fantastic Adventures - Forever is too long
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1947, featuring the story Forever is to long by Chester S. Geier. A Man stands next to a hour glass

Fantastic Adventures - War on Venus
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1942, featuring the story War on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger catches a warrior with a spear while a young woman with spear in red dress tries to

Fantastic Adventures - The black Arrow
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1948, featuring the story The black Arrow by Jamieson Wood. Huge black snake struggles in the water and destroys boats of American Indian. Date: 1948

Fantastic Adventures - The strange mission of Arthur Pendran
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1944, featuring the story The strange mission of Arthur Pendran by John X. Pollard. A beautiful woman sits on a throne showing a terrified looking man a floating

Fantastic Adventures - Onslaught of the druid girls
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1941, featuring the story Onslaught of the druid girls by Ray Cummings. A young beautiful woman rides a hippogriff. Date: 1941

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