Cross Collection (page 15)

Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, 1912, by Mappin and Webb, hallmarked London 1912, with fine model of Cody?s Flyer, Type No

George VI Distinguished Flying Cross
This illustration shows King George VI pinning a Distinguishes Flying Cross badge to a deserving officer of the Royal Air Force. Date: 1941

WW2 Warrior Sailor And Red Cross Flag
A pair of wartime illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image portrays a warrior sailor while the right picture shows a maritime red cross flag, possibly of the U.S. Navy

WW2 Wireless S. O. S. Call And Red Cross Nurse
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a Royal Navy captain sending an S.O.S. wireless call, while the right picture portrays a British Red Cross nurse

Young Russian inventor Anatol M Josephs received the first US patent for a fully automatic photographic film developing machine

Small boats ferrying folk from the Asian side of Bosphorus
Small boats transporting people across from the Asian side of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Recruitment poster, Commando Medical Service, WW2
Recruitment poster, Commando Medical Service, February 1945, Second World War Date: 1945

Lord Roberts capturing the Sepoy Standard at Cawnpore (Kanpur), India, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross Date: 1858

Advert, Blue Cross Pekoe Souchong Tea from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Date: 1891

La Fontaine de l'Arbre, Pleaux, Cantal, France
La Fontaine de l'Arbre (The Tree Fountain) at Pleaux, a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. Date: circa 1910s

Drunk young man unable to find the right (real!) keyhole
Italian comic postcard - a young man (rather worse for wear) returns home after a posh (yet boozy) night out only to be befuddled by his less-than-pleased (but pretty cunning) wife

Houses At Austen Wood Common
An architectural illustration showing the design for a number of houses at Austen Wood Common, Gerrard's Cross. Date: early 1900s

The Tudors, Gerrards Cross
An architectural drawing of The Tudors, an Arts and Crafts large timber framed house at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, designed by Architect Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott. Date: circa 1912

Modernist House, Gerrard's Cross, Bucks, Hallway
A photograph of a hallway to a modernist house located at Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1936 by architect Rose Elisabeth Benjamin. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House, Gerrard's Cross, Bucks
A photograph of a modernist house located at Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1936 by architect Rose Elisabeth Benjamin, built in reinforced concrete. Date: circa 1937

Gothic Coped Tomb Designs
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing eight similar designs for gothic coped tombs, each bearing a cross in slightly different ways. Date: circa 1855

Gothic Gravestone Design
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing a design for a gothic styled gravestone, with the distinct form of a central cross, with flowers placed at intervals. Date: circa 1855

Gothic Cross Forms
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, displaying a variety of forms for the terminations of crosses in the gothic style. Date: circa 1855

Gothic Gravestone Designs
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing a pair of designs for gothic gravestones, each bearing the general form of a cross, with circular motifs containing flowers

Our Lady of Seven Dolours, Stowmarket, Suffolk
Our Lady of Seven Dolours, Roman Catholic Church, Stowmarket, Suffolk Date: 1880s

How vast the Queen Mary really is
Facts which tell how vast the Queen Mary really is Date: 1936

Natives Of Tahiti
A group portrait engraving of four natives of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, sitting cross legged, one seems to be using an upturned cooking vessel as a drum. Date: circa 1901

Nos Paysans
A portrait sketch of a peasant holding a cup bearing a message translating to our women, beside a lady wearing a cross around her neck, holding a book on her lap. Date: 1901

Music cover, As You Like It Polka, by Adam Wright
Music cover, As You Like It Polka, composed by Adam Wright, design by Alfred Concanen Date: 19th century

Indignities shown to the corpse of William the Conqueror - on his death in France, his body was stripped of clothing and jewellery. Date: 1087

War Memorial, Finchingfield, Essex Date: 1950

Porch of St Peter and St Paul Church, Shoreham, Kent Date: circa 1910

Interior of old Church, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight Date: 1918

Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817). Polish general and statesman. National hero in Poland and Belarus for his leadership of a national insurrection

Stanislaw II Augustus (1732-1798). King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1764-1795). He was the last monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Portrait

Mieszko I of Poland and Boleslaw I the Brave
Mieszko I of Poland (935-992). Piast prince or duke of Poland from c.963. Boleslaw I the Brave (967-1025). He was the son of Mieszko I. Duke of Poland (992-1025) and the first king of Poland in 1025

Prince of Asturias wearing the cross of Maria Isabel Luisa
The Prince of Asturias (future Alfonso XII, 1857-1885) wearing the cross of Maria Isabel Luisa. Chromolithography by J. Donon

Knight - Spanish Order of Charles III
Knight wearing the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III (formerly Royal and Much Distinguished Order of Charles III)

Knight- Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Hermenegild
Knight wearing military distinction of the Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Hermenegild, created by Ferdinand VII of Spain in 1814. Chromolithography

Grand Prior of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem or of Malta. Chromolithography. Historia de las Ordenes de Caballeria y de las Condecoraciones Espanolas

Isabella II of Spain (1830-1904). Queen of Spain (1833-1868). The queen wearing the cape of Grand Master of the military orders of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara and Montesa. Chromolithography

Monastery of Santa Maria. Cloister of the Porteria. Built between 1575 and 1578 in Renaissance style. It is attributed to the master Juan de la Sierra the Elder

Charing Cross Station, Underground
This painting provides a view looking down upon the entrance to Charing Cross Underground Station, opened originally in 1864 by South Eastern Railway

Almshouses, Stratford-On-Avon
This etching shows figures standing outside the Almshouses, a group of 15th century buildings in Church Street, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Allenburys Diet Advertisement
An advertisement for Allen & Hanburys Ltd, promoting Allenbury's diet for invalids. They have used a portrait painting of a young Red Cross nurse from 1914-15, who is seated wearing her uniform

La Messe Aux Brancardiers
This oil painting depicts the religious service of mass, held by a priest wearing white robes, at the front of an altar, placed at some crumbled walls, topped with the crucifixion cross

Hobson and Sons Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Hobson & Sons, complete army outfitters, official contractors to the British Red Cross Society and the St. John Ambulance Association

In Memoriam
An etching which acts as a tribute to the lives lost during World War 1, elements include a memorial stone, which reads 1914-1915, 1916-1917 indicating those that have died during this period

Victoria Cross
A portrait painting of a lady wearing a light dress, sat in an armchair with her chin resting on her hand, she has a gold satin blanket over her lap. Date: circa 1917

British Red Cross Society Facsimile
A facsimile of the illuminated address presented by Queen Alexandra at Marlborough House, on 17th of December 1915, to the Japanese Red Cross Society in recognition of the services of their mission

Religious Scene
This painting depicts a religious scene, where a man, likely Jesus, he strewn at the base of a cross at the top of a hill, aided by a man with his donkey

The Descent From The Cross
This oil painting is a biblical depiction of the Deposition of Christ, inspired from the Gospels accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion

Vinolia Company Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Vinolia Co Ltd, promoting their varnishing cream, for the red cross worker, who will not have much time to devote to the care of her skin and complexion

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