Departed Collection

Embossed Victorian mourning card, Mary Hickman
Embossed Victorian mourning card with a funerary monument. In Memory of Mary, relict of the late Job Hickman, of the Bilston Quarries, she departed this life, December 2nd, 1857, aged 73 years

Embossed Victorian mourning card, James Woodhead
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a woman and a girl grieving at a tomb in a cemetery. In Memory of James Woodhead, who departed this life January 14th, 1855, aged 80 years

QSS Lusitania - souvenir of launch, commemorative 18 carat gold handled scissors, with stainless steel blades, the crossover engraved with John Brown and Co

L'egare II - North Atlantic expedition raft, at Falmouth
L'egare II, a raft used by a French crew in 1956 to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The expedition, led by Henri Beaudout, departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving 88 days later at Falmouth

LADY AT TOMB
Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance... - illustration to a poem by Burns. Date: early 19th century

Cock Robin Nursery Rhymes Unfortunate Death Thrush
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A Turkish man from Canakkale pining for his wife (or lost love...!). This card was purchased by an unknown British serviceman based at Canakkale during the Chanak Crisis (late 1922, early 1923)

Robert Falcon Scott and Peter Markham Scott, c. 1909
Photograph of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the English naval commander and explorer, and his son, Peter Markham Scott, taken in late 1909 or early 1910

We Gladstone / Gummidge
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Liberal MP and Prime Minister depicted as Mrs Gummidge, " thinking of the old un", alias the departed Disraeli Date: 1809 - 1898

Paranormal: William S. Marriott simulated spirit form
The British magician William S. Marriotts simulated spirit form, which was identified as a departed loved one by many who attended his fake s顮 ces. Date: 1910

South African Beauty - seated at a table pondering a flower, perhaps pining for a departed or lost love... Date: circa 1902

Three Piasecki HRP-1s on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saipan just before it departed from Norfolk, Virginia, for Greenland in an effort to rescue 13 stranded airmen

The Himalaya flight group at Heston on 16 February 1933, the day they departed for India. Alongside de Havilland Fox Moth, G-ACCS, from left: E.C. Shepherd, Flt Lt David F. McIntyre, Air Cdre P

Paranormal / Apparitions
LE TOUSSAINT (Hallowe en) Departed loved ones return to their Breton homes once a year, on All Saints Eve Date: 1895

Devotions at a Grave
A pious Chinaman honours the burial place of his departed ancestors

Nurses at work in a hospital at Scutari
38 nurses departed with Florence Nightingale for the Barrack Hospital in Scutari, during the Crimean War (1854-1856). They were sent, against doctors wishes, to assist with the medical support

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