Catch Collection (page 3)

Catching German spy in the act 1915
Catching German spy in the act. 1915

Cupid and spiders web on a Valentine card
Cupid with net and spiders web on a Valentine card -- Caught in Loves Web. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Boy and dog in a boat on a cutout greetings card -- the boy has caught a fish. circa 1890s

Arrival of the mackerel boats 1868
Fishermen bringing in the catch of mackerel hours before dawn, arriving on the River Thames to be sold at Billingsgate market, in the 1860s it was estimated that 25, 000

Fresh water fishing. 19th century

Postcard booklet, three boys fishing, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Postcard booklet, boy with fish, Dixieland, USA
Postcard booklet, boy looks at a fish he has caught, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Morris Clark, renowned for being one of the Gibson Girls, appearing in The Catch of the Season, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Date: 1905

Poster, fishing bait, water bread, made of blood, dried fruit, caramel, oily flour. late 19th century

Poster advertising the Test Match in Australia
Onslow Auctions Collection Date: 1932 - 1933

Winter scene on the coast of Bergen, Norway, fishermen bringing in their catch of herring and men packing the them in barrels. Date: circa 1851

North-American TB-25N Mitchell N1042B (msn 108-34098, ex 44-30823A), circa 1965. Built as a North American B-25J-25/27-NC 44-30823 for the United States Army Air Force and converted to TB-25N

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin Date: 1502

Digging for Ants Date: 1948

Frolicking in the Surf Date: 1948

Trapezist Makes Catch Date: 1950

Hobos Hop Freight Train Date: 1950

Spry Maid Snags Bouquet Date: 1950

Days Catch = Small Fry Date: 1950

Pig Couple Date: 1910

The Calling of Peter and Andrew by Duccio di Buoninsegna
The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew by Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-1319) - Sienese for the Predella of the Cathedral at Siena. Date: circa 1310

A fine catch of Salmon - Brioude, France, Haute-Loire region
A fine catch of Salmon - Brioude, France, Haute-Loire Department. The Gentleman in the centre is Monsieur Breul, Proprietor of the Hotel du Commerce at Brioude. Date: circa 1902

Bermuda - Fisherman bring the catch ashore (hopefully more than the one specimen being showed off!). Date: circa 1910s

Chinese fishing boats 1857
River life among the Chinese, fishermen raising a large baskets. Date: 1857

TOY CRICKETING CAT
A toy cricketing cat, bat behind him, arms spread wide to catch the cricket ball! Date: 1930s

UNABLE TO SEE AT THEATRE
The fellow in front of you at the theatre is always the tallest in the room: a short man struggles to catch a glimpse of the stage Date: 1843

OSTRICH HUNT WITH BOLAS
Three men pursue an ostrich across the pampas of South America, hoping to catch it with a bolas - a kind of weighted lasso. Date: 1894

CHILDREN EATING CHERRIES
Children trying to catch cherries in their mouths without using their hands. Date: late 18th century

TENTACULAR CATCH / FRANCE
Crew of French fishing boat of Cancale find their nets full of hundreds of octopodes which swarm onto the side of their boat, nearly sinking it Date: 1906

MISCELLANEOUS LOCKS
A selection of lock systems and mechanisms. Date: 1797

TRADERS AT BILLINSGATE
Traders at Billingsgate fish market auctioning the latest catch. Date: 1870

BILLINSGATE FISH MARKET
BILLINGSGATE fish market, London : landing the days catch Date: 1870

Shrimping at Ambleteuse 1858
French woman drags her net through the shore to collect shrimp. Date: 1858

FLYPAPER PEDLAR C19
A street pedlar of FLY-PAPER, calling Catch em alive, oh! Date: 1887

Demobilisation. Play on popular catch phrase of entertainer Fred Kitchen Meredith we e in

Westman Islands, Iceland - Puffin Catching. Date: circa 1903

Fisherman unloads buckies whelks at Port William, Galloway, Scotland

Two beach fishermen with their rods and line
Two male beach fishermen with their rods and lines at Col Huw Bay, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, South Wales. It is a windy and wet winters day and the sea is rough. The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Beach fisherman, Col Huw Bay, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan
A beach fisherman unhooks a flounder he has just caught with rod and line at Col Huw Bay, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, South Wales

Sri Lankan pole fishermans catch
Poda, a Sri Lankan pole fisherman, or stilt fisherman. In podas hand are three small fishes - his entire catch for one day

Waterfront Scene - St. Georges, Bermuda
Waterfront Scene - St. George s, Bermuda. See image 10633779 for an amusing example of the same negative ending up with two different card publishers and being printed in two different directions

Two little black children on the beach - fish in a jam jar
The Catch of the Season. Two little black children on the beach holding a fish in a jam jar. Date: circa 1905

WW1 era Comic Postcard - Little girl threatens her boy... " If I ever catch you at it" ! Date: circa 1916

The Duchess of York - Fishing in New Zealand - Royal Tour
The Duchess of York hooks a big one - Fishing at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand - Royal Tour. She caught twenty fish in half an hour! Date: 1927

Pattern 1897 Japanese arisaka bayonet sword, used in both World Wars; single edged blade, mark of Kokura arsenal. The bayonet incorporated a quillon designed to catch and break an opponent

Tom Jenkins (1872 - 1957), American catch wrestler who held the American Heavyweight Championship three times around the turn of the 20th century

Advert for Wulfings Formamint tablets 1913
Why you catch sore throats and how to cure and prevent it. Germs from a public telephone in constant use, and railway carriages are favourite breeding grounds

Silhouette, A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw
A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw -- silhouette showing a man in water, reaching up to a tree branch

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