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Cream pottery porridge bowl - WWI - BairnsfatherwareCream pottery porridge bowl marked with the word Porridge. With transfer - Coiffure in the trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. On reverse - A Souvenir of the Great War
Coiffure in the trenches. Keep yer ead still or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off !. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)
Plate - Give it a good ard un, BertPlate inscribed Give it a good ard un, Bert: You can generally ear em fizzing a bit first if they are agoin to explode. Inscribed on reverse Made by the girls of Staffordshire during the winter of
Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches, WW1Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)
Bonzo spoils a perfectly good photograph by George StuddyBonzo spoils a perfectly good photograph -- he scratches his ear at the critical moment and distorts Chee-Kees image. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo
Brother and sister by Muriel Dawson -- the little boy whispers in the girls ear. Date: circa 1940s
Advert for Asprey jewellery 1938Fashion decorative jewellery. Date: 1938
Jewellery Market StallWomen sifting through trays of jewellery on a stall at Wentworth Street Market, London. Date: 1950s
Picture FramersA workshop of busy picture framers, with the foreman or manager surpervising them. Date: early 1930s
Alexander LeightonALEXANDER LEIGHTON - puritan churchman and physician who, for writing Sions plea was imprisoned, whipped, deprived of an ear and had a nostril slit, among other miseries. Date: 1568 - 1649
Smiling Moroccan Man - Tangiers with a colourful overgarment and gold ring in his right ear. Date: circa 1909
Pretty French girl putting a shell to her ear to hear the sounds of the sea. Date: 1943
Lost tooth causes sleeping difficulties for KittyKitty - " Aunty, I can t sleep at night since I lost my front toof for the draught blowing down my throat." Date: circa 1890s
Two owls on a Christmas card, with envelopes in their beaks. Date: circa 1890s
de Havilland Vampire F2 TG276de Havilland Vampire F2, TG276, experimentally fitted with a Rolls-Royce Nene I turbojet and elephant ear intakes
Red owl, warbling flycatcher, purple finch, brown larkPage 82 from A. Wilsons American Ornithology, (1835). Annotated Red owl, Warbling flycatcher, Purple finch, Brown lark
Bubo bubo, Eurasian eagle-owlPlate 38 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Pluvalis squatarola, grey plover and other owlsLarge Series plate 6, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Phalacrocorax punctatus, spotted shagFf. 103. Watercolour painting by George Porster (1773) annotated Pelecanus punctatus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Bubo bubo bengalensis, Eurasian eagle-owlLarge Series plate 9, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Ketupa zeylonensis, brown fish owlPlate 3, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Otus scops, Eurasian scops owlPlate 33 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Eremophila alpestris, horned larkPlate 18 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Otus bakkamoena, collared scops owl
Lepus europaeus, European brown harePlate 33 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21
Nine molluscs, including bivalves and gastropodsWatercolour 391 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Kow-er-ring, Kow-ill, Kaa-din, Wal-gan, from the Watling Collection
Chrotopterus auritus auritus, woolly false vampire batWoolly false vampire bat (Chrotopterus auritus auritus) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway
Ketupa flavipes, tawny fish owlPlate 30, a watercolour by Rajman Singh, from Brian Houghton Hodgsons collection of birds and mammals of Nepal
Artibeus watsoni, Thomas fruit-eating batThomas fruit-eating bat (Artibeus watsoni) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway
Jasper a Hungarian viszla, photographed by Harry Taylor
Asio flammeus galapagoensis, short-eared owlPlate, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41)
Astrapia nigra, arfak astrapiaHand coloured lithograph by Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea (1875-88)
Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & Loxodonta africana, AfricaAsian elephant above noted as E. Indicus, African elephant below noted as E. Africanus. Plate 39, engraving from Edinburgh Journal Natural History Vol. 1, 1835-39
Lophophorus impejanus, Himalayan monalPlate 53 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph
Arborophila torqueola, common hill partridgeA watercolour by Lady Mary Bentinck (c. 1833)
Phodilus badius, Oriental bay owlPlate 14 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 1, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph
Fratercula cirrhata, tufted puffinPlate 249 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Aquila chrysaetos, golden eaglePlate 37 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Otus asio, eastern screech owlPlate 7, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby
Paradisaea rubra, red bird-of-paradisePlate 6 from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rocliers, Vol.1, (1806)
Saffy a Belgian shepherd, photographed by Harry Taylor
Allactaga euphratica, Euphrates jerboaAfghan jerboa. Annotated watercolour drawing by Oliva Fanny Tonge (1858-1949), from one of 16 sketchbooks presented to the Natural History Museum in 1952
Bubo virginianus, great-horned owlPlate 61 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Tragopan temminckii, Temmincks tragopanPlate 46 from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol. 7, (1850-83). Hand coloured lithograph
Treatment of ear myiasis in an infected sheep in Sarbogard, Hungary. Photographed by Martin Hall
Batrachostomos auritas, large frogmouthPlate from John Goulds Icones Avium, or figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of Birds from various parts of the globe, Vol.2 (1837-1838)
Phasianus colchicus formosanus, common (Formosan) pheasantPlate 56 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)
Tibouchina clavata, bears earFinished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Melastoma quadrangularis