False Collection (page 5)

Osiride pillar of pharaoh Sesostris I. Egypt
Egyptian Art. Osiride pillar of pharaoh Senusret I, Jeperkara Senusret or Sesostris I, second king of 12th Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. Ruled between 1956 and 1910 BC. Luxor Museum. Egypt

Pharaoh with the false beard and Atef crown. Deir el-Bahari
Relief with polychrome remains depicting a pharaoh with the false beard and Atef crown, an attribute that helps to revive the deceased. Temple of Hatshepsut. New Kingdom. Eighteenth Dynasty

Boy in clown costume
Boy in a clown costume decorated with patches. Date: 1970s

FEMALE D. J. 1960S
A female DJ plays records in a London nightclub Date: 1960s

Advert for International Hair Co. 1913
Latest transformation in wiglets for women. 1913

South Africa / False Bay
False Bay Date: 1910

Stupendous Chignon
CHIGNONS: A fashion conscious woman, no doubt employing a prodigious amount of false hair, sports a large chignon. Her horse likewise is completely chignoned! Date: 1866

Trade catalogue of hairpieces 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a collection of Edwardian wiglets. Date: 1911

Advert for Marius Heng, hairpieces 1910
Advert for Marius Heng, elegant hairstyles using hairpieces for women. Date: 1910

Advert for B Henry hairpieces 1910
Advertisement for extensions. 1910

Cartoon, Chancellor Bethmann and his work, WW1
Cartoon, Chancellor Bethmann and his work, showing the German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, replacing the German eagle with a duck (canard, an idiom for a hoax or rumour). Date: 1916

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The tall story, WW1
Cartoon, The tall story. Showing a rumour circulating, from two men at the top of the Eiffel Tower down to two women at the foot of a staircase

Cartoon, The false shepherd, WW1
Cartoon, The false shepherd, showing a man posing as a shepherd, with a sheepdog and a flock of sheep, making notes on local aircraft activities. Date: 1915

Nautical Terms Illustrated - Anchored by Harold Earnshaw
Illustration showing an old sea salt finding himself in a bit of a fix after his wooden legs has caught in a drain grill and snapped

WW1 - Germans in Poland
WW1 - Illustrating the reality and irony behind German intentions as they arrive in Poland. The Germans " words and deeds", as seen in the poster displayed by the Kaiser

Painted snake, false coral snake or pipe snake, Anguis scytale.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Costume of the Bayeux area, near the sea The
Costume of the Bayeux area, near the sea. The bonnet is called a dormeuse or sleeper.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

Greater false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra, and trident leaf-nosed bat, Asellia tridens.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris

Paul Boisselot in the role of Jules in La Perruque de mon Oncle at the Folies Dramatiques.. Boisselot (1829-1905) was a French vaudeville actor and comedian

Edible blusher, Amanita rubescens, and poisonous panthercap, Amanita pantherina.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

False helleborine, Veratrum album.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

False lily of the valley - May lily - flowering wild plant - forest floor (Maianthemum bifolium). pine forest near Ekaterinburg - Middle Ural Mountains - Russia. summer - June

The hoax Captain of K�ick
The sham Captain of K� ick and his triumph of genius. 1. the sham captain signing the receipt for the municipal money; 2

Judgment on the Captain of K�ick
Judgment on the bogus Captain of K� ick, Wilhelm Voigt. The tables turned: D Langerhaus, Burgomaster of Koepenick

New Russian bombs by G. H. Davis
Molotovs breadbaskets: Russias new dual-purpose bomb used during the Second World War. Its false head was filled with small incendiary bombs, released by a cap propeller

Cottingley Fairy Case - Night Light
An Advert for the Nighlight supposedly used by the Cottingley Fairy children to forge the photos they produced. Date: December 1921

ARP Warden - False Alarm - Pimlico, London
(text taken from photo caption) False Alarm. Mrs Mary Bennet, ARP Warden in Pimlico, London (" river slum district" !)

Sorting Hair 1930S
A young woman sorting and packing hair, perhaps for wigs or even bedding. Date: early 1930s

Curling Hair Extensions
Girls wetting lengths of hair to curl them into hair extensions or to made into wigs. Date: early 1930s

False Nails
Rather clumsy clip-on false nails! Date: early 1930s

Old Man with pair of wooden legs advertising corn plasters
Very black humour - An Old Man with a pair of prosthetic false legs advertising corn plasters! Date: 1895

The false loves of chantecler

A false alarm on the fourth. Illustration shows Uncle Sam, holding a firecracker, trying to reassure a concerned-looking female figure with wings labeled Peace that all the noise she hears is for

The false alarm?. Illustration shows Uncle Sam inspecting a large alarm clock with the face of President Taft and a ringer labeled Roosevelt Policies; the hand on the clock shows it is nearing

False weights and measures in the New York custom-house. Illustration shows Customs official Edward L. Hedden holding a balance scale labeled HO Thompsons Pat

The false start, Jerome Park, N. Y
The false start, Jerome Park, N.Y. Print showing Jerome Park horse racing track, with crowds watching the false start of a race. Date c1868

Mothers coming, or false alarm

Assassination of Henri III
The fanatical Domincan friar, Jacques Cl?nt, presents King Henri III with false papers before stabbing him in the abdomen and killing him

Cat piano and animal choir
A cat piano and a choir of animals make up this unusual ensemble. A motely selection of humans also feature-a one legged man plays the cat piano

False-set-o
A women singing on stage hits the high note and her dentures come flying out. 1930

FALSE BOOKCASE
A false corner cupboard bookcase, concealing a drinks shelf, radio and speakers! Date: early 1930s

Revelations on Honeymoon
Revelations - 1st Chapter A hilarious postcard showing a couple on their honeymoon, revealing to each other (for seemingly yht efirst time!) their physical shortcomings

Idealised German prisoner of war camp, WW1
An artists impression of an idealised German prisoner of war camp, Munster II, during the First World War. The French artist was forced to portray a wide range of enjoyable activities

A false Paris outside Paris: A city created to be bombed, 1920
A page from the Illustrated London News, 1920, illustrating a sham Paris, created to trick German pilots flying at night into thinking they were bombing Paris during World War One

The beggars of New York
Cynical view of New York beggars who apparently pretend to be blind and hire babies to attract more sympathy, then go home or to the nearest eatery for a slap-up dinner. Date: 1886

Time Speed Happily - Cars Speeding legally
Time Speed Happily - A New Years card for 1908. Cars Speeding legally by, whilst a policeman (as Old Father Time, perched on a winter world complete ith beard and scythe)

Ballad / False Lover
THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK When John tells her he loves another, the fair maid goes after him and by the end hes as deep in love wi her as she was ower again. Date: traditional

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