Crone Collection

Old Shetlanders, Havera Isle, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Date: 1918

Comic Valentines Postcard - Old Maid about to be blown up
Comic Valentines Postcard - Some seriously racey language punning against an image of an Old Maid about to be blown up. 1908

Cupid Imprisoned
This illustration depicts an old crone with a predatory owl upon her head, pulling along a cart decorated with poppy flowers, upon which sits a cage containing an imprisoned Cupid, the god of love

MOZART/FLUTE/PAPAGENO, A
The old crone is transformed into Papagena, to Papageno's delight Date: first performed 1791

Gathering sticks in the New Forest. Date: 1903

How to kiss your Rich Aunt ! A rather foolish and foppish young man (with an eye on the prize!) greets his Elderly (and very rich) Auntie with extreme enthusiasm. Date: 1908

Old lady buying a picture of a young lady
An old lady buying a picture of a young lady in the bloom of youth. Date: 19th century

Suffragette Votes for Women Crested Figurine
A two-sided head and shoulders figurine of a suffragette with Votes for Women on her bonnet. One side has the crest of Tettenhall (now in the West Midlands)

Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans lack of male interest
Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans and mourns the loss of 500 men in a (fictional) disaster, not that it appears she is (unfortunately) a magnet for male interest! Date: circa 1910

Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know her love is true
Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know that somebody loves her madly! Is it the gentleman who is next in line...?! Date: circa 1907

Elderly woman seated beneath a portrait of her when young
Elderly woman seated in a comfy chair, beneath a portrait depicting her in the full bloom of youthful beauty, now long departed. Date: 1901

Elderly Swiss Spinner at hew wheel. She is wearing a remarkable headdress / scarf and is working a very elegant wooden wheel. Date: circa 1910s

Sorceress and the Kings children
John Bauer ( 1882-1918) Sorceress and the Kings children, watercolour 1909 Date: 1909

France - Elderly water carrier
A really extraordinary photographic postcard of an elderly lady water carrier smoking a pipe at Morlaix, Brittany, France Date: circa 1910s

French Shepherdess with flock and dog
Venerable French Shepherdess with flock of sheep and faithful hound. Date: circa 1910s

Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns! Old woman runs! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns! Date: 1913

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