Bubble Collection (page 3)

Fun Seaside Transport - Bubble Boating. This postcard was presented as an award for correct dictation in 1931! Date: late 1920s

Turkish Cafe and patrons, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish Cafe and patrons, some of whom are smoking hookah or nargile pipes - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

WWI - Propaganda postcard - Kaisers dream bubbles burst
WWI - Propaganda postcard - The German Kaisers dream bubbles are popping before his eyes. By this point however (late 1914)

Art Nouveau - pretty girl blowing bubbles
Fantastic Art Nouveau postcard - pretty blonde girl wearing a flowing red dress blowing bubbles. Date: circa 1900

Earwig skin in Baltic amber
A shed earwig skin in Baltic amber, this specimen has very long pincers. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Colombian copal

Baltic amber with caddis fly
A Caddis fly, Trichoptera preserved in Baltic amber. The cracks in the amber are filled with crystals of iron pyrite. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

Fourteen molluscs, including gastropods and bivalves
Watercolour 395 by Thomas Watling, from the Watling Collection

Termites in Dominican amber
Dominican amber containing termites, a flightless scuttle fly and a rove beetle. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene about 20 million years old

Fruit fly in Dominican amber
Fruit fly deriving from Diptera:Cyclorrapha:Drosophilidae trapped and preserved in Dominican amber with a parasitic or phoretic mite attached to its abdomen

Midges in amber
Pair of copulating midges preserved in Baltic amber accompanied by two air bubbles. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene

Hematite group
A group of hematite

Blowing a bubble

James Craggs - 2
JAMES CRAGGS Statesman, Secretary of State, implicated in the South Sea Bubble financial scandal. Date: 1657 - 1721

Candy bubble. Print shows an illustration of a bird on a stick with flowers and an unopened blossom. Date between 1810 and 1818

Circular designs, maple leaves in a bubble and a person blowing bubbles. Date 1878 Dec

A dangerous bubble. Illustration shows a man labeled Trust Promoter blowing a bubble labeled Inflated Values using Trust Water and a pipe labeled Stock Exchange. Date 1902 October 22

Turkey - Suleimaniye Mosque, Istanbul
Interesting Turkish postcard - a view across the waters of the Bosphorus toward the striking profile of the dome and minarets of the A view across the waters of the Bosphorus toward the striking

Gentleman with his Hookah-Burdar or Pipe-Bearer. (Plate 10 of 20) Date: 1813

Sheet Glass Making at Cooksons Glass Works, South Shields
Interior of a sheet-glass-making shop at Cooksons Glass Works, South Shields. A man blows into a pipe leading into a tubular bubble of glass which will then be opened out to form a sheet. Date: 1844

Exotic Turkish Woman of the Harem Date: circa 1904

Filming a TV Advert
A blonde model in a bubble bubble being filmed for a fork lift TV ad! Date: 1950s

Enjoying a soak in the bath, 1930
A lady reclines in a very comfortable-looking hot bath, enjoying the soothing effect on the nervous system of Zotis Foam Bath. Date: 1930

Reclining Oriental Beauty with Hookah Pipe - sprawled across a divan covered witha beautiful patterned fabric. Date: circa 1902

Turkish Zeibek warrior - Izmir, Turkey. Zeibeks or sometimes Zeybeks were irregular militia and guerilla fighters living in the Aegean Region of the Ottoman Empire. Date: 1905

Todder blowing bubbles
A young toddler sat atop a padded stool playing with a large bubble, that he has blown through a pipe Date: circa 1906

Moorish Cafe - Algeria
Black African men taking tea and a smoke of a hookah pipe at a drink at a Moorish Cafe - Algeria. Two of the men are playing a board game. Date: circa 1910s

Musical group in an Arab Cafe, Egypt
Musical group in an Arab Cafe in Egypt - a woman sits smoking a Nagile pipe. Date: circa 1910

The Star Turn by Muriel Dawson
A small child in red dungarees blows bubbles from a bubble pipe watched with interest by a pet dog and a toy teddy bear

Blowing Bubbles by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Two children sit with a bowl of soap suds and blow bubbles through pipes

Miss Calavalava - a known beauty. Smoking a hookah pipe and leaning on a divan

Batgers Christmas Cracker label
Elves or pixies dressed in red rather over-do it blowing bubbles

Mississippi Scheme
Allegorical representation of the Mississippi scheme which, like the South Sea Bubble in England, is a scandalous plan whereby investors are enticed into a get-rich-quick fraud

James Craggs
JAMES CRAGGS English politician who accepted 30, 000 in South Sea Company stocks. Deeply implicated in bursting of South Sea Bubble"

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