Collector Collection (page 2)

Old Maid card game - Tickets Please - London Underground. circa 1950s

Heath Robinson
Laundry impressions. The collector calls. One of a set of 6 postcards. Date: circa 1920

The Collectors Office, 1615 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1636). Flemish painter. The Collectors Office, after 1615. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany

Louis Racine - French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment
Louis Racine (1692-1763) - French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment. Later an inspector-general of taxes at Marseille in Provence. A member of the Academie des Inscriptions. Date: circa 1749

George Daniel, Writer
GEORGE DANIEL - Precocious and prolific writer of political squibs against royals, and stage pieces, mainly comical, novels and theatre criticism.. Also a noted book collector. Date: 1789 - 1864

Buddha & Dustman
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) He shows that he has relinquished aristocratic pretensions by befriending a low-caste refuse collector Date: 563? BC - 483? BC

Mrs Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 April 18, 1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City

Thomas Hill, Bookman
THOMAS HILL Bibliophile, book collector and author of The mirror of fashion, Date: 1760 - 1840

Lagenorhynchus obscurus, dusky dolphin
Delphinus fitzRoyi. Plate from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol. 1 Part 2 Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin

Prince of Wales Hospital Carnival, Tottenham, London
Watched by mounted police, three spectacularly dressed collectors pose for their photo during the annual Prince of Wales Hospital Carnival in the Tottenham area of North London

James Bindley
JAMES BINDLEY book collector

Womens War Work WW1 Ticket Collector
Girl in blue uniform works as a Ticket Collector Doing her Bit during the First World War. Date: circa 1915

The Man Whose Reservations Blew Overboard by Bateman
The Man Whose Entire Outfit of Hotel, Railroad, and Streamship Reservations Blew Overboard by Bateman. Cartoon by H. M. Bateman illustrating the sorry tale of a man who did not keep hold of his

If you have a postcard collection - Add me to it! Date: 1906

British Railways memorabilia
A wagon-load of old timetables are pored over by railway enthusiasts, including a lady in a tam-o-shanter and wellington boots. circa 1974

Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894). English archaeologist. Know
Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894). English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat

Anton Buchholtz (1848-1901). Historian, numismatist and collector. Engraving. 19th century

Roman Art. Syria. Farming. Collecting dates. Mosaic. Theatre of Bosra. 2nd century. Hauran region

Algernon Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837-1916), at the age of 28, British diplomat, collector and writer, paternal grandfather of the notorious Mitford sisters. 1865

Isaac Gosset (Younger)
ISaC GOSSET (YOUNGER) English bibliographer and book collector - the greatest Collector of curious Books of his time. Date: 1735 - 1812

James Staats Forbes
JAMES STaTS FORBES Scottish railwayman and art collector Date: 1823 - 1904

Fried. Karl Von Feofer
FRIEDRICK KARL VON FEOFER German book collector. Date: 1723 - ?

William Dowdeswell
WILLIAM DOWDESWELL Military : general and print collector. Date: 1761 - 1828

Thomas Dampier, Bishop
THOMAS DAMPIER Bishop of Ely, book collector. Date: 1748 - 1812

Clayton M Cracherode
CLAYTON MORDAUNT CRACHERODE Collector of books and prints Date: 1730 - 1799

Roderich Benedix - 3
RODERICH JULIUS BENEDIX German writer and collector of German folklore and folksongs, circa 1870. Date: 1811 - 1873

Roderich Benedix - 2
RODERICH JULIUS BENEDIX German writer and collector of German folklore and folksongs, in 1852. with his autograph Date: 1811 - 1873

2nd Earl Spencer reading
George John Spencer (1758 - 1834), 2nd earl Spencer statesman and book collector

John Bagford, Collector
JOHN BAGFORD, shoeamker and book collector, who deserves praise for rescuing ancient ballads, but indignation for destroying countless old books for their title pages. Date: 1650 - 1716

Rudimentary Kitchen C20
Two broken chairs provide the only comfort in this rudimentary kitchen : the stove would be a collectors item today... Date: early 20th century

R Bruce Cotton (Somer)
sir ROBERT BRUCE COTTON antiquary and collector Date: 1571 - 1631

R Bruce Cotton (Johnson)
sir ROBERT BRUCE COTTON antiquary and collector Date: 1571 - 1631

John Burns / Vanity Fair
JOHN ELLIOT BURNS English labour leader and book collector Date: 1858 - 1943

James Granger / Cook / 1825
JAMES GRANGER book collector whose name is given to the custom of adding extra illustrations to books Date: 1723 - 1776

Beckford / Fonthill House
WILLIAM BECKFORD Fonthill House, Wiltshire, home of the English writer, art collector and eccentric Date: 1760 - 1844

Beckford / Bath Grave
WILLIAM BECKFORD Tomb of the English writer, art collector and eccentric in the cemetery at Bath Date: 1760 - 1844

William Fraser (Pelleg. )
SIR WILLIAM FRASER - Writer, statesman and collector. Date: 1826 - 1898

Ethel Gabain and a sitter
Ethel L鯮 tine Gabain (26 March 1883 30 January 1950), French-English artist. Gabain was a renowned painter and lithographer and among the founding members of the Senefelder Club

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Z, showing Zaccheus (Zacchaeus) climbing a tree in order to see Jesus. Date: circa 1860

Father Christmas and pudding on a Christmas card, with two poems: The Collector, and The Pudding That Cut Away. Date: circa 1890s

C. Harris feeding Galapagos tortoises, 1898
Sailor and explorer Charles Harris was despatched to the Galapagos islands to collect giant tortoises for Walter Rothschild in 1897

Cartoon, Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Morland s, by James Gillray. A satire on the popularity of Morlands paintings, focusing on fat pigs, foolish donkeys and greedy dealers

Richard Payne Knight - British writer and antiquary
Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824), British writer, antiquary, scholar and book collector, best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery

Refuse collector at work on a Balham street, SW London. He is wearing a mortar board which someone has thrown away. Date: circa 1960s

Charles Roach Smith (1807-1890) was an antiquarian and amateur archaeologist, whose collection of antiquities found during London excavations or dredging of the Thames formed his Museum of London

Women War Work WW1 Ticket Collector
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

Collector of old clothes
Old cloaths. Street trader. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Womens Work WW1 Fare lady. Lady ticket collector on the bus or tram described as The war-time fare Lady. Date: circa 1918

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