Concertina Collection

Man & Concertina / Photo
A young man is photographed playing his concertina

Three musical hares on three decorated Easter eggs
Three musical hares play their instruments on three decorated Easter eggs

Reginald Malby with a giant camera in his garden
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, using a giant camera in his garden at Woodford, Essex

J Lancaster & Son, Colmore Row, Birmingham
J Lancaster & Son, Cameras, Photographic and Scientific Equipment, Colmore Row, Birmingham. circa 1900

Lady with concertina, Victorian period

Lady with concertina

Original Artwork - Fantasy scene with dancing elephant
Original Artwork - Fantasy scene with five young Indian boys playing music to a crazy-looking dancing elephant! Date: circa 1937

Kodak Folding Camera publicity postcard. 1909

Humanised birds on a tree on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Cat photographer and clients on a French postcard
Cat photographer and three clients on a French postcard. Date: circa 1904

Authropoglossos St. Jamess Hall, Piccadilly
Authropoglossos or mechanical large vocalist dummy head, made of wax and ornamented with that profusion of hair and beard, in the month he wears a large tin funnel

KNITTED CONCERTINA MAN
This clever little toy with a wool face, is a concertina man with a monkey on his shoulder. Knitted toys make good Christmas presents! Date: 1930s

SEWING A LAMPSHADE / 1930S
By pleating a strip of paper and sewing bright coloured wool through it, you can make an effective lampshade only costs a few pence. Date: 1930s

Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? WW1
Cartoon, Espionage? Snooping? A German couple and their daughter go for an innocent country walk, but gradually metamorphose into a concrete platform, a camera and a telephone! Date: 1915

Susi - inside a large camera, yawning. 1950s

Three tabby kittens on top of an old camera
Unusual Friends - three tabby kittens on top of an old camera. 1950s

Photographer in Florence, Italy
Street photographer with large camera and tripod in Florence, Italy. circa 1969

Victorian Scrap -- Salvationist. late 19th century

Days that are gone - Appy Ampstead - people enjoying a bank holiday on Hampstead Heath, north London, as depicted by Webster Murray. 1925

Susi - with kitten and camera. 1950s

Susi - climbing into a large camera. 1950s

Susi - looking inside a large camera. 1950s

Susi - with large camera. 1950s

Music cover, I Like Mountain Music, fox trot song, words by James Cavanaugh, music by Frank Weldon. With a signed photo of Florrie Forde, music hall singer. 1933

Caricature of Edwin Booth and William Booth
Caricature of Edwin Booth (1833-1893) as Cardinal Richelieu at the Adelphi Theatre, London, and William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, at the Grecian Theatre in north London

Musical instrument shop, Johnny Roadhouse. Date: 1970s

Three frogs and rocking horse on a cutout card
Three frogs dressed as clowns on a rocking horse on a cutout greetings card. circa 1890s

MADRID BARBER 1 / 5 1987
The tiled fascia of a Madrid barber shop - ladies also catered for, and home visits can also be arranged. Date: 1987

Two musical cats on a Christmas card, one singing, the other playing the concertina. Date: circa 1890s

Black clown playing concertina on a Christmas card
Black clown playing the concertina on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cat with a camera on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Victorian Scrap, little boy playing concertina
Victorian Scrap, little black boy playing concertina. circa 1880s

Little boy photographing a kitten in a garden
A little boy photographing his pet kittten in a wheelbarrow in a garden. Not forgetting that someone else is photographing the boy, photographing the kittten! Date: circa 1960s

Little boy photographing pet dog in a garden
A little boy photographing his pet dog on a chair in a garden. The dog is keeping obligingly still, with its front paws resting on the wooden arm of the chair

Little boy with a camera in a garden
A little boy with a camera in a garden. Date: circa 1960s

Suffragette Votes for Women Views. Stereotypical suffragette stands behind a VFW newspaper placard, which reads, Our Views At Bude contains concertina of photo views of Bude, Cornwall

View inside Cannon Street Station, London, showing trains waiting to depart, but very few passengers in evidence. Date: circa 1940

Birds on a concertina-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Street music: A concertina player with monkey friend, c. 1890
A shabbily dressed but smiling boy plays a concertina in a park, with a monkey perched on his shoulder. Date: c. 1890

Street music: accordion player, 1930s
A child playing a Puratone accordion in a sunny street, surrounded by admiring friends. 1930s

Three dresses by Beer, Premet and Martial et Armand
Three fashionable women wearing evening dresses. On the left, a salmon pink narrow strap tubular satin crepe casino dress with embroidered silver pearls and a green fan detail at the hip, by Beer

London Italian Children
Poor Italian immigrants playing with a concertina, Saffron Hill, near Farringdon, London EC1

Italian Immigrants
Italian immigrant children playing with a concertina in the Saffron Hill area, near Farringdon, London EC1

LAZY-TONGS FIRE-ESCAPE
Lazy-tongs fire escape, a novel idea in which a sliding stage is mounted on an extending trellis-work frame or support

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