Double Collection (page 11)

Comic postcard, Looking for a sleeping partner Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, the vicar sponges his aspidistra Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, water passed by Borough Surveyor, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, the vicars stipend cut down - two women gossiping Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, couple at the races - They re Off! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman and doctor, misunderstanding Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor visits sick man, wife misunderstands Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Ambiguous instructions to the butcher Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women in conversation Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women in the pub - double meaning Date: 20th century

Three suits for an afternoon promenade, Paris, 1926 - one jumper suit, a tweed coat and a double breasted cloth coat Date: 1926

Portrait of Mata Hari at the height of her fame Date: 1929

Vauxhall Bridge on the River Thames in 1817
Vauxhall Bridge, initially named Regent Bridge, over the River Thames, London. built in 1816. Nine-span bridge designed by engineer James Walker with cast iron arches and stone piers

Fossils of extinct coral. Chenendopora fungiformis 1, Chrysaora damaecornis 2, sponge, Eudea clavata 3, stony coral, Lochmaeosmilia radiata 4, tabulate coral, Favosites alcyon 5

Iiwi and greater double-collared sunbird
Iiwi, Vestiaria coccinea 1, and greater double-collared sunbird, Cinnyris afer 2. Melitretto propriamente detto o scarlatto, Cinniride a placca rossa

Interior of the Heliopolis, Baalbek, Lebanon
View of the interior of the Heliopolis or Temple of Baalbek, Lebanon Beqaa Valley. Interno del Tempio di Balbec. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios

Double dart, pale shoulder, four-spotted moth and druid moth
Double dart or soothsayer, Graphiphora augur 1, pale shoulder, Acontia lucida 2, 3, four-spotted moth, Tyta luctuosa 4, 5, and druid moth, Aedia funesta 6

Passenger moth, dun-bar and soothsayer
Passenger moth, Dysgonia algira 1, dun-bar, Cosmia trapezina 2-3, double dart or soothsayer, Graphiphora augur 4, larvae 5-6

Ruby tiger moth and peach blossom moth
Ruby tiger moth, Phragmatobia fuliginosa 1-5, and peach blossom moth, Thyatira batis 6-8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die

Conformist, double dart, scarce brindle and silver arches
Conformist, Lithophane furcifera 1, double dart, Graphiphora augur 2, scarce brindle, Apamea lateritia 3, 4, and silver arches, Polia hepatica 5

Garden dart and other moths
Garden dart, Euxoa nigricans 1-3, Hadena filograna 4, antirrhinum brocade, Calophasia platyptera 5, Simyra nervosa 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann

Red-headed chestnut, toadflax brocade and grey shoulder knot
Red-headed chestnut, Conistra erythrocephala 1-4, toadflax brocade, Calophasia lunula 5 and grey shoulder knot, Lithophane ornitopus 6

Burren green, sallow, angle-striped sallow and double
Burren green, Calamia tridens 1, sallow, Xanthia icteritia 2, angle-striped sallow, Enargia paleacea 3, 4, and double line, Mythimna turca 5, 6

Woman in velvet dress with chiffon double tunic trimmed with skunk fur, stole and muff of white fox fur. Robe de velours a double tunique de mousseline de soie bordee de skunks

Woman in zibeline coat with collar and cuffs in white fox fur. Manteau de Zibeline a col et poignets de renard blanc. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman in linen dress with double tunic in embroidered tulle, little casaque jacket lined with satin. Robe de linon a double tunique de tulle brode, petite casaque a revers de satin

Woman in swimming costume in the sea with crab, 1913
Woman in swimming costume up to her ankles in the sea on a beach holding a crab. Costume de bain. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

View over Dikkebus Lake, Dickebusch, Belgium
The name Dickebusch means hick forest and dates from the time that this area was dense woodland. The Germans never took the lake, although they reached the water in May 1918

Captain Chavasse VC Memorial, Brandhoek Church grounds
This memorial to Noel Chavasse was unveiled on 29 August 1997 in the presence of a delegation of the London Scottish Territorials

Daimler car
Daimler double Six Saloon Date: circa 1925

Eros Gets That Christmas Feeling by Pearce
Lovely illustration of Piccadilly Circus in the centre of London, covered in snow and with the famous Eros statue decorated with holly and ribbons for Christmas. Date: 1932

Engagement of the Beaton sisters
An impression by society sketch portraitist Pat Charles of the two recently engaged sisters of Cecil Beaton with their fiancÚ│« Nancy Beaton is seen with Sir Hugh Smiley

Advert, Anson Double-Rise Target Trap
Advert for the Anson Double-Rise Target Trap (for shooting practice), Birmingham. circa 1900

Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph in Thats a Good Girl
Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph, stars of Thats a Good Girl at the London Hippodrome in 1928, caricatured by Sallon. They were a popular pairing

505th PIR and 1st Canadian Army Memorial
This double Memorial was erected by C.Hectors, A. van Grinsven and Father Thuring in Klein Amerika on 16 September 1990. The left hand tablet records that, With Europe in peril

Phyllis Court, Henley by G. H. Davis 1926
Detailed diagrammatic illustration by G. H. Davis in The Illustrated London News of Phyllis Court, a so-called riverside country club at Henley, showing extensions and improvements made in 1926

Double tunnel near Farringdon Street Station, London
Double tunnel near Farringdon Street Station, Metropolitan underground railway, London. Date: 1860s

London Underground, double tunnel at Clerkenwell 1884
London Underground, double tunnel at Clerkenwell, with two steam trains passing through, one above the other. Date: 1884

Four Wheel Trailers double your truck capacity and cut your cost of hauling 50%. Showing trailers used by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Norah Blaney & Gwen Farrar playing tennis
Entertainment stars and variety double act Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney, pictured as doubles partners in a tennis match in a tournament at the London Country Club at Hendon between the two respective

Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar in Pot Luck, 1922
Miss Norah Blaney and Miss Gwen Farrar in Pot Luck at the Vaudeville Theatre, 1922. Date: 1922

Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar in Wonder Bar, 1930
Norah Blaney (left on piano) and Gwen Farrar in novelty revue Wonder Bar at the Savoy Theatre. The scene is a Viennese nightclub whose audience overflows from its own stage into the stalls

Royal Winnipeg & 1st Canadian Scottish Memorial
This double memorial has a plaque to the Rifles on the left and to the Scottish on the right. Between them is a poem by Paul Eluard

Gibson Brothers Tram Station, Kimberley, South Africa
Gibson Brothers Tram Station with double tram drawn by a steam engine, Kimberley, South Africa. Date: circa 1906

Seeing multiples / Photography trick
Photographers became more experimental with the portraits they could photograph. In this example the same man appears multiple time within the same frame. Date: 1902

Sea unicorn or narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Rare specimen with double tusks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Double canoe of New Caledonia. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

Cultivated double varieties of poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs

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