Dashing Collection

Daphne du Maurier in Fowey
Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989), English writer and novelist, author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn

Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria, looking dashing in his military uniform

The Crossword Craze / 1920
A dashing couple display the growing crossword craze with their checked attire and similarly squared-off small dog!

Bowling in Chicago
Belles of the Bowling Alley - the Athletic Diversions of an Association of Dashing Damsels in their Club Rooms in Chicago

Check Burberry suit, 1916
A dashing black and white check Burberry suit with a full skirt, a coat smart and practical for sport and country wear worn with a matching close-fitting hat. Date: 1916

Sir James Brooke / Census
SIR JAMES BROOKE Governor of Labuan, later Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when the overseas population of the British Empire numbered 139 million

Recruitment / Callot
Potential raw recruits are given the once over before they take the Kings shilling. Experienced troops on parade look dashing to encourage & lure those in two-minds

Army uniform, 10th Hussars, man on horseback. circa early 19th century

John Burgoyne / Chapman
JOHN BURGOYNE Dramatist and army officer (he surrendered at Saratoga in 1777)

COSTUME/1950'S MAN
Slender young man in a V neck ribbed jumper looks dashing in sunglasses & tie. Date: 1950s

Loving Spanish Couple with bouquet and romantic verse
My soul cannot succeed in happiness if it is not sharing the happiness of your company. Date: circa 1910s

Small circular gift tag - original artwork - Urgent - Dog
Small circular gift tag - original artwork - Urgent - a little black Scottie dog dashing to deliver a letter held in its mouth. Date: circa 1937

British wedding photograph - smart couple. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for a French fashion ensemble called Le Chic on sale at Harrods, London, 1926 featuring a fashion threesome called Le Chic comprising jumper

Cartoon, Mr Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor, seen here as the dashing Italian spy, Paolo Marcari, in Called Back, a production based on a novella by Hugh Conway. 1884

Valentine card from a Man-Servant, with verse. Date: circa 1860s

Cambridge Double-decker Horse Tram
circa 1910s

ARISTOCRATIC SWINGING
A beautiful young woman is pushed on a swing by a dashing chap. Date: 18th century

COSTUME / NECKTIE 1861
A rather dashing middle-aged Victorian man wearing a necktie, top hat and sporting mutton chop sideburns. Date: 1861

Charge of French Alpine Chasseurs in Alsace, WW1
The Chasseurs Alpins, the famous French mountain riflemen carrying out a dashing charge on skis at Hermannsweiler Kopf in Alsace

Escort by Helen McKie - World War II
An old Chelsea Pensioner in his distinctive red uniform looks on aghast as a smart RAF airman escorts two pretty girls. Date: c.1940

Royal Scots / Drill / 1914
The Royal Scots Greys (2nd dragoons), in khaki drill order, dashing for the hill on horseback Date: 1914

Tennis / Dashing Man Plays
Dashing man plays a difficult tennis shot

Young lady dashing to catch the London train
A young fashionable lady rushes for the London train, wearing a circus outfit. Date: 1923

Comic Postcard - a play on the phrase Bar & Bolt (to secure the door)

Male Walking Dress 1827
An English gentleman in tailored country clothing for which England was renowned. His coat is cut away at the front revealing a glimpse of the waistcoat beneath. Date: 1827

BROUGHAM
HENRY, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM British jurist and politician: defended Queen Caroline in her trial (1820); designed the one-horse Brougham carriage (c1838) Date: 1778 - 1868

Foxhounds with their hackles up as they dash through the covert. Date: 1926

Eve as a W. A. A. C, WW1
Eve, The Tatler magazines gossip columnist (and author of Letters of Eve ) muses on the charm of a W.A.A.C (Womens Army Auxiliary Corps)

The Idolaters by MacKenzie
A group of five women kneel in admiration before a dashing British officer standing on a plinth. He raises his monocle to inspect them. Date: 1917

Coat by Scott Adie, WW1
A smart wrap coat of Glenfishie check cheviot available from Scott Adie s. Date: 1916

A ladies tailored suit, World War One
A dashing tailored suit of field-mouse grey velvet trimmed with white fox fur worn with a Puritan style hat and Wellington boots

Silk coat, 1915
Slim and shapely, but planned to withstand the ravages of the weather, this silk coats charm is enhanced with fur, while the moujik cap is of black astrakhan

Neil Hamilton, American film actor
(James) Neil Hamilton (1899-1984), American film actor, a popular leading man in his early career, but best known as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman television series of the 1960s

Music cover, The Lancers Quadrilles, or Duval (of Dublin)s Second Set, Seventh Edition. Containing Les Graces, La Dorset, Lodoiska, La Native, and Les Lanciers

James Woodhouse
JAMES WOODHOUSE the Poetical Cobler dashing off a few lines instead of sticking to his last. Date: 1735 - 1820

7th Viscount Ranelagh
THOMAS HERON JONES, seventh viscount RANELAGH military commander, looking very dashing in the uniform of the South Middlesex Volunteers, sword included. Date: 1812 - 1885

A distinguished Country Gentleman in a very dashing coat and holding a riding crop. Date: 1895

Dashing to give train passenger his change
Urgent - a frantic newspaper boy dashes along the platform to give an elderly train passenger his change for the paper he has purchased

WRAF-ish by Reginald Higgins
A dashing young woman in the uniform of the WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) waits by her car smoking a cigarette. Date: 1919

The Girl of the Period by Balliol Salmon
A typical girl of 1924 in a red dress and with bobbed hair, dances with a dashing partner at a ball. In the background are numerous other couples dancing. Date: 1924

C W A Scott
Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC (13 February 1903 15 April 1946), record-breaking English aviator, best known for winning the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934 together with T

Schoolchildren on Tower Bridge, London, 1897
Illustration showing a large group of children dashing about on Tower Bridge to watch the passage of a large passenger steamship under the bridge, London, 1897

Galloping a machine gun into action: A French Dragoon Mitrailleuse section dashing forward under fire

Complete Surrender by H. H. Harris
A post-WWI issue of The Bystander depicting a dashing monocled officer escorting a glamorous flapper girl dressed in yellow, furs and a red cloche hat

Macanny Late for the Tee
Comic scene showing a panicking Scottish man dashing through a hotel after sleeping in and missing the start of his golf match

Fist Full of Pounds
A dashing man clutches a fistful of pound notes

Macmahon or Thiers ?
England mocks France for choosing the dashing soldier Macmahon in preference to the boring businessman Thiers

Costume / Necktie 1861
A rather dashing middle-aged Victorian man wearing a frock coat with velvet collar, necktie, top hat and sporting mutton chop sideburns

Flying on a Horse
The prince returns secretly by night to carry away the daughter of a foreign king; they flee on a magical flying horse

Barthelemy Voiture
A dashing lady driver raises the dust in her Barthelemy with its tiller-steering

Philip Iii / Spain / Goya
Philip Iii, King of Spain

Adrian Brauwer / Boulonois
ADRIAN BRAUWER Dutch artist

George IV (Cig Card)
GEORGE IV OF ENGLAND looking rather dashing Date: 1762 - 1830

L OBSERVATEUR 1835
Embroidered waistcoat, S-B cut-away coat with velvet collar, grey trousers with decorative side seam, square quizzing glass. Front & rear view of a frock coat

Rossini / Pinnock 1823
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI the Italian composer as a young man

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