Blindfold Collection

Fortuna by Ernest Board
Painting depicting a blindfolded woman playing a fateful game of cards. Date: 1911

Initiation of a freemason
The initiation ceremony of a freemason (central detail); watercolour in the Musee du Grand Orient de France de la Franc-Maconnerie Europeene. Date: 19th Century

Helen Duncan - Ectoplasm & Teleplasmic hand
Piece of card showing two undated photographs of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand"

Paris Masons, 1740
Freemasons in a Masonic Lodge in Paris perform a ritual. A symbol covered banner is laid on the floor while a blindfolded man, an arm & shoulder bared, is led forth

Sculpture on Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
Sculpture on the Synagogue, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, a Romanesque revival building which was destroyed during the Second World War. Date: circa 1920s

The House that Jack Built
Promotional postcard for The House that Jack Built, Howard and Wyndhams Royal Pantomime, at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 14th December 1911

Justice Personified
Justice holding scales to symbolise even-handedness, stability and equality

Chinese rice mill with blindfolded mules turning a millstone, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Hope by George Frederick Watts. late 19th century

Tableau of Hope
Mrs Ernest Platt performing a tableau of Hope at the Ritz Hotel in London. She is representing a painting of the same name by the artist George Frederic Watts, painted in 1886. Date: 1910

Allegory of the French Revolution. French citizen blindfolded trying to take the liberty, equality and fraternity, which mocked by exposing him to trip over rocks, fall, or meet with death

Music cover, The Gondoliers Waltz, P Bucalossi
Music cover, The Gondoliers Waltz, by P Bucalossi, based on music from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Gondoliers. 1889

Unknown medieval game
A man calls to a blindfolded man with a club to strike a cauldron, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus

Medieval games: boy diving for apples on a bench while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk the boy in the tub (top)

Merveilleuses playing the game of blind mans buff. A blindfolded woman runs in a garden as one woman strokes her hand and another grabs her muslin dress

Fashionable people playing the game of Guess the Kisser
Fashionable people at a party play the game of Guess the kisser, a parlour game where a blindfolded girl has to guess who is kissing her on the cheek

The blindfolded Austrian officer at the Battle of Ulm, 1805
The blindfolded Austrian officer (Prince Maurice Liechtenstein) forced to capitulate to Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Ulm, 1805

Tatler cover Clothes Worth Stealing 1961
Front cover of The Tatler featuring an art thief contemplating a portrait of the latest fashions for 1961 in an art gallery. Date: 1961

Blind Mans Buff at a childrens party Date: early 19th century

Game of Blind Mans Buff at a childrens party
A game of Blind Mans Buff (or Bluff) at a childrens party in the early 19th century. Date: circa 1830

German poster, What England Wants, WW1
German propaganda poster, What England Wants, depicting a blindfolded man approaching the edge of a cliff with a heavy sack on his back at the beginning of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Sensible Roosevelt - A whipping-post for wife-beaters. Cover illustration showing man wearing mask whipping another man manacled to whipping post, as a woman with arm in sling looks

Initiation of the Knight Kadosh
Taking the left hand of the blindfolded candidate and placing it on the beating body of a sheep, the deceived candidate is then expected to plunge a knife into what he believes is the body of a

Kuda Bux and one of his experiments
Undated photograph of Kuda Bux and one of his experiments with " eyeless sight" : with head bandaged, he is duplicating shorthand characters drawn on a blackboard by Lucie Kay

Cupids with red heart and ladder on a Valentine postcard -- To my Valentine. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916

People at a comic sports event in a field
People taking part in a comic sports event in a field, which involves each man being blindfolded and apparently guided by a woman with a piece of string. Date: circa 1910s

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Blind Mans Buff
Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Four Geisha Girls playing a game (similar to Blind Mans Buff?) Date: circa 1905

Female Initiation - 3
A candidate is initiated as a Mistress : blindfolded, she is placed on the Tower of Babel, much to her confusion when the blindfold is removed. Date: 1891

Roman Rotary Quern
A Rotary Quern used by the Romans for grinding corn. A number were found intact at the bakery in Pompeii

Blindman s-Buff by Charles Robinson
Blindman s-Buff. Illustration of the childrens party game in full swing. 1906

Alls Well That Ends Well - title page - the blindfolded Parolles gives away military and other secrets. 1862

Blindfold boxing match on board the Berengaria
A blindfold boxing match for the amusement of passengers on board the ocean liner, Berengaria in 1931. Life jackets are worn in case of fouls! Date: 1931

Studio photo, boy putting blindfold on dog
Studio photo, boy putting a blindfold on a dog, perhaps to avoid a flash from the camera. Date: circa 1920s

France. Par?=?s. Notre Dame cathedral. Portal of St. Anne. Synagogue. AllegorycaI statue depicted with his eyes covered, her crown falling on the floor, the tables of the law reversed

Cartoon, German Kultur, WW1
Cartoon, German Kultur or the cultivated truth during the First World War, showing a blindfolded allegorical female figure with flames rising around her. Date: 1915

Family playing blind mans buff on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Sphere cover - First Armistice between Russians & Germans
The First Armistice by Fortunino Matania, showing Russian emissaries presenting their credentials to German officers. The first step towards peace negotiations was taken by the Russian

Dutch boy scouts training their sense of smell
Dutch boy scouts wearing blindfolds, training their sense of smell

Scouts blindfold boxing in Ghana, West Africa
Scouts entertaining visitors with blindfold boxing, one of many activities at a Founders Day celebration in Ghana, West Africa

Armed against fate and flags by F C Boyle
A man out walking his dog realises the only way he can avoid flag sellers in wartime is to go out blindfolded and with headphones on his ears

President Woodrow Wilson draft selection, USA
President Woodrow Wilson being blindfolded before he makes the first serial number selection for American men to be drafted into service in World War One. Date: September 1917

Mowing the Cocks Head
73 Year-old Sam Bennett demonstrates the old Warwickshire custom of Mowing the Cocks Head. Blindfolded, he tries to cut off the top of a clump of grass. Date: 1930s

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded
Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand". The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

First US army recruits
A blindfolded official picks out first recruits for the US army in WW1

OBSTACLES PARTY GAME
A blindfolded man has to negotiate obstacles with the promise of a kiss from the prettiest girl if he succeeds. But the obstacles are removed and tricked, he kisses a man!

Blindfold Reading - 2
Two teenagers from Nancy, France, seem to demonstrate BLINDFOLD READING, while controlled by Labadie picture 2 of 2

Blindfold Reading
Two teenagers from Nancy, France, seem to demonstrate BLINDFOLD READING, while controlled by Labadie picture 1 of 2

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