Cracked Collection

Hannibal / Naples Bust
HANNIBAL Carthaginian general, famous for his crossing of the Alps

Pinguinus impennis, great auk
1 of 6 shots of Dr Leachs 139 great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Cowboys / Saloon Brawl
A brawl in cattle town - cowboys get into a fight in a saloon. Aside from guns being fired, chairs are thrown and cracked over peoples heads

South Africa - a toddler looks down guiltily at broken eggs
South Africa - a toddler looks down guiltily at some broken eggs, spilled out from their laden basket. Date: circa 1930s

Old Houses, Bletchingley
Some of the fine old houses (although some could do with renewed rendering) at the corner of the road leading to Brewer Street, Bletchingley, Surrey. Date: 1930s

Subsidence damage, 122 Ridley Road, Bromley
Subsidence damage to a house at 122 Ridley Road, Bromley, Kent

WW1 - German caricatures - Cadorna, Venizelos, Nikolayevich
WW1 - German caricatures of enemy Italian, Greek and Russian military leaders Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928), Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936), with an egg cracked on his head

Dried Beds, Lough-A-Veema - a view of the cracked and dried beds of the vanishing Lough. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Loughareema). Date: circa early 1900s

Saint Marian. Engraving. Colored
Saint Marian. Colored engraving. 19th century

Broken Old Swansea china plate on a Christmas postcard
Broken Old Swansea china plate on a Christmas and New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Dr Leachs 139 great auk egg
Dr Leachs 139 great auk (Pinguinus impennis) egg held in the Natural History Museum at Tring. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the middle of the 19th Century

Favourite Sayings - The cracked dish
Black and white lantern slide of a woman pouring the contents of a pan into a cracked dish and liquid spilling out onto the floor.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Over-dried soil with cristallized salt on its surface - typical salinated desert soil near Kumdag. Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Cracked soil in a desert near Kum-Dag. summer - Turkmenistan - former CIS

Scout headquarters at Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece. Four earthquakes hit the island in August 1953, destroying many buildings; the scouts helped with clearing up and humanitarian aid activities

85 mm German engraved artillery shell case - Bezalel School
77 mm. German artillery shell case engraved at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem. Engraved brass with silver and copper damascene work including five branched lamp and floral patterns

Comic Postcard - unfolding drama on the broken bridge - Ernest is regretting his boast to Letty, Agnes, Dot and Prunella that the structure would take their combined weight. Date: circa 1905

Glass slide (cracked) of AVM Sir Sefton Brancker KCB
Glass slide (cracked) of AVM Sir Sefton Brancker, KCB, AFC, FRAeS, 1877-1930, right, RAeS Chairman 1925-1926 and RAeS President 1926-1927. Date: 1930

Aptenodytes forsteri, Emperor penguin eggs
Eggs of Aptenodytes forsteri (Emperor penguin) brought back from Apsley Cherry-Garrards 1911 Antarctic expedition. The holes were made to allow investigation of the embryos

Mud volcanoes vent, Baku 1992
Mud volcano vent, Baku peninsula, Azerbaijan, 1992

Sedimentary layer of rock shows the effects of drought. A layer of dried-out mud was overlain with darker sediment which filled the cracks - the whole was then compacted and changed to rock

A pot of Primula flowers and apples
A Geman (from Munich) painting of a pot of Red Primula Polyanthus (Primrose) variety flowers, two shiny apples and a large broken walnut Date: 1904

Double page spread in a diary for 22-27 November
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 22-27 November. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Family and car in the desert, Middle East
A mother and her two children, together with grandparents, perch at the side of their car in the desert, somewhere in the Middle East

Shell Shock by George Ranstead
An original pen & ink drawing illustrating a play on words. A young man with shell shock looks away in terror at a cracked hard boiled egg

Granite quarry, Aswan, Egypt
Granite quarry, Aswan, unfinished obelisk, 41.75 m = 137 ft, 1152 tons, cracked. If it had remained whole, it would have been the largest obelisk ever raised. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Dorset Cottages
A quiet byway of Corfe, Dorset, England, the village dominated by the ruins of its famous Castle, which can be seen in the background

England / Bosham
Bosham, near Chichester, Sussex, where King Canute tried (but failed!) to command the tide not to come in. A quaint corner of this old village, once a great sea port

Polar Bear / Olaus Magnus
A couple of bears go fishing in the cracked ice

Music / Instruments / Bells
The Great Bell of the Kremlin, made in 1737 for the Tsarina Anna, but it cracked and was never used

Examining Leaning Tower
A visitor examines one of the cracked pillars of the Leaning Tower of Pisa which has been bound with steel

Girl Bathes Doll
A girl bathes her doll in a cracked wash basin

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