Cock Collection (page 6)

First page of a book by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum The Great, in the Letter Book Series. It is in Aldins own handwriting, with his home address at the top: The Kennels, Purley, near Reading. Date: 1921

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a white cockerel looking directly at the viewer. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum The Great, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a proud white cockerel surrounded by admiring hens. Date: 1921

Illustrations by Cecil Aldin, Black Billy
Two illustrated pages, with handwritten text, by Cecil Aldin, in Black Billy, in the Letter Book Series. Showing Black Billy chasing a cockerel and taking a large bone from his brother Peter

Cock-a-doodle-doo, My dame has lost her shoe -- two dogs manage to rip the shoe apart between them. Date: 1899

Cockerel in blackberry brambles
A cockerel in blackberry brambles. Date: circa 1920s

Cockerel design
A cockerel design. Date: circa 1920s

Pigeons - A portrait of four Homing Pigeons
The pictured Racing Homing Pigeons were the property of J. Oliver Esq. of Bexhill, and were trained by The Brighton and County of Sussex Society

Three Almond Tumbler Hens
A group portrait of three female Almond Tumbler pigeons ages 1 1/2 years, 2 1/2 years, and 4 years old. The illustration shows the distinctive features of an Almond Tumbler hen depending on its age

Three Almond Tumbler Cock Pigeons
A group portrait of three male Almond Tumbler pigeons ages 1 1/2 years, 2 1/2 years, and 4 years old. The illustration shows the distinctive features of an Almond Tumbler cock depending on its age

Almond Tumbler Pigeon Tail Feathers
An illustration of Almond Tumbler tail feathers showing their differences after successive moults. The diagram also indentifies the feathers belonging to the cock

White Carrier Cock Pigeon
A portrait of a White Carrier Cock standing in full-length with one other of its kind nesting in the background. The portrait brings to attention its distinctive features

Dun Carrier Cock Pigeon
A full-length portrait of a Dun Carrier Cock. The Dun Carrier Cock is an English fancy breed of pigeon. The large cere above the beak is one of the characteristics

Cocks comb coral tree, Erythrina crista galli.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

The Cock Hotel, Worsley, Lancashire
The Cock Hotel, Worsley, Manchester, near Walkden, Lancashire, England. Date: 1930s

Expedition of Malaspina. Acapulco. Cock fightings
America. Expedition of Malaspina (1789-1794). Viceroyalty of Mexico. Cock fightings in Acapulco. Drawing by Tom᳠ de Sur� Drawing. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid

Cock in a village yard, typical colouring. Middle Ural mountains, Russia, summer

Hungry Peter as a piglet stealing poultry food
First Come, First Served -- Hungry Peter as a piglet unwittingly stealing the food from the cock and hens, who peck at him and drive him away. Date: 1912

Poland fowls and speckled Hamburg hens
Cocks and chickens: Poland fowls and speckled Hamburgs

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Fruit Label -- head of a cockerel
Fruit Label depicting the head of a cockerel. Date: 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- bull and dog, cockerel
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations, showing a bull tossing an unfortunate dog into the air, and a cock crowing at sunrise, waking all the farmyard animals. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Robin Redbreast
Nursery Rhymes -- The Wedding of Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren. Three guests (above), and Robin with his best man, the Bullfinch (below). Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Ride a Cock Horse
Nursery Rhymes. An unidentified one (above), showing a man with a brush running into another mans bedroom. Below is a scene illustrating Ride a Cock Horse, showing the fine lady on her white horse

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

Red Cock and Black Hen. Gross, Anthony 1905 - 1984

Man with Game Cocks - Stone Sails - Guadalupe, Mexico
Inset photograph of a man carrying Game Cocks and the Stone Sails Monument (in the grounds of the Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe) - Guadalupe, Mexico. Date: circa 1910s

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near Shaho
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Army Wintering near the Shaho River along the MukdenPort Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway north of Liaoyang, Manchuria

WW1 - Victory in Paris - Mound of Captured German Guns with a French Cock on top on the Champs Elysees - 14th July 1919. Date: 1919

The Old Revolution House - near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. This little cottage takes its name from the Revolution of 1688. Three hundred years ago this cottage was an alehouse - the Cock and Pynot

Rupicola rupicola, Guianan cock-of-the-rock
Plate 51 from Francois Le Vaillants Historie naturelle des oiseaux de Paradis et des rolliers, Vol.1, (1806)

SPAIN. Salamanca. Old Cathedral. Ribbed vault known as Torre del Gallo (Cock Tower), romanesque building with byzantine

Sculpting a cock. Illustration from Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Pack Horse, Yorkshire
A trader and his pack horse travel on the ancient causeway in Cock Mill Wood, near Whitby, Yorkshire, England Date: early 19th century

Fanciful balloon, La Minerve
Fanciful drawing of a balloon carrying a large ship entitled La Minerve vaisseau airien, designed by Professor Robertson. circa 18th century

Plum blossom and magpie (long tailed cock onagadori). Print shows a magpie perched on a branch with plum blossoms. Date between 1830 and 1858, printed later

The cock that crowed too soon. Illustration shows Admiral George Dewey as a rooster crowing I want to be president with Uncle Sam, in his bed clothes, leaning out a window to throw a boot at him

Petersburg, Virginia. Cock fighting at Gen. Orlando B. Willcoxs headquarters. Date between 1862 and 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. Cock fighting at Gen. Orlando B. Willcoxs headquarters

The beginning of the cock fight. When the man in the center raises the cloth, the birds will see each other and begin to fight. Puerto Rico. Date 1937 Dec

Cockerel, hen and chicks in a farmyard
A cockerel, hen and three chicks in a farmyard. Date: circa early 20th century

Boys with bats and stumps frighten the birds away
Boys with bats and stumps, on their way to play cricket, frighten the cockerel and his family away. Date: 1937

A cockerel catches the moth, watched by his hen and chicks. Jack Sparrow misses out again. Date: 1937

Anti-German cartoon, on the road to Paris, WW1
An anti-German cartoon by a French satirical cartoonist, showing an ugly German soldier who has fallen off his bicycle by a milestone on a country road 40 kilometres from Paris

Paris, France - pile of artillery pieces in a mound
A mound of artillery pieces in a very symbolic gesture of abandonment of the war effort at the final closure of World War One in 1918

Man with rooster
Man with a rooster, 1959. Date: 1959

A rooster
The rooster in a Swedish primer from 1637 Date: 1637

The Cock Pit, Eton
The Cock Pit, High Street, Eton, Berkshire, England, which dates back to the early 15th century. Date: established 1420

Little Terns
Two Lesser Tern birds, the (female) hen sits on the nest, while the (male) cock brings in the rations. Date: 1930s

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