Fancy Collection (page 20)

Petits Fours Glace spread. Date: 1936

Parisian Dessert Bonbons, Chocolate Caprice Date: 1936

Glace Fruit Flans
A Spread of French Pastries. Glace Fruit Flans. Date: 1936

Glace Cream Bonbons
A Spread of French Pastries. Glace Cream Bonbons. Date: 1936

Parisian Dessert Bonbons
A Spread of French Pastries, Parisian Dessert Bonbons, Chocolate Base. Date: 1936

A Spread of French Pastries, Frangipane Desserts. (20) Vermicelli Buttercream Topping, (21) Buttercream Top with Chocolate Cream Roll, (22) Pineapple Top Covered with Croquante. Date: 1936

A Spread of French Pastries, (13) Mocha Cream Wafers, (14) Chocolate Walnuts, (15) Walnut creams, (16) Chocolate Cream Wafers. Date: 1936

Fancy Dress Ball - Winter Palace
An early 20th century fancy dress ball held at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Date: 1910s

A Chinese ritual using frankincense and myrrh

Pierre Loti - French novelist and naval officer
Pierre Loti (Julien Viaud) (18501923) - French novelist and naval officer. Date: 1908

Advertisement for top hats
Compliments of E. F. Watson Corner Market Square & North Main Street Providence, G. H. Remington, Clerk

Chocolate box design, lady in fancy dress
Chocolate box design, featuring a lady in fancy dress holding a mirror, with a geometrical background. Date: 20th century

Designs for Cake Tops, Serrated Border Design Date: 1936

Wedding Cakes with Stucco Finish and Moulded Decorations
Wedding Cakes with Stucco Finish (Left) and Moulded Decorations (Right Date: 1936

Label design with girl in fancy dress
Label design featuring a girl in fancy dress, carrying a bowl containing clubs, spades, diamonds and hearts

Label design with fancy dress couple
Label design or gift tag featuring a couple in fancy dress

Fancy dress ball in Bangalore
British soldiers dressed up for a fancy dress ball in Bangalore, India, in 1914. Costumes include a vicar, a jockey, and a rather Dutch-looking baker and dairymaid. Date: 1914

Arrival of the royal party at the Devonshire House ball
Arrival of the royal party, including the Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) at the Devonshire House historical costume ball

Street parade with people in costume
A street parade with people in costume, including big heads

Flirtatious young woman in fancy dress with admirer
Flirtatious young woman in rococo fancy dress clothing, with an admirer faun trying to get close to her. Date: 1928

Young woman in exotic costume
A young woman in an exotic costume, worn for a street carnival

Valentine Greetings card - A young girl with a large basket full of fancy flowers. Date: 1909

Fourth Earl Roscommon
WENTWORTH DILLON, fourth earl of ROSCOMMON Irish statesman and translator, apparently dressed in ancient Irish garb, perhaps for a fancy-dress party. Date: 1633 - 1685

Rooftop Crinoline
Old and new fashions on a London rooftop, one woman in modern clothes and the other in a rather incongruous mix of a crinoline worn with a modern top and tricorn style hat! Date: 1931

THE HUMAN BAT
The Human Bat, strikes a pose! Date: early 1930s

A European girl with her hair in the Japanese Geisha style Date: 1904

Indian Watchman (Choakee-dar or Chow Kidar). Date: 1828

Girls having fun in the park playing with hoops and dolls
Young French Girls having fun in the park playing with hoops and dolls Date: circa 1907

Bailiffs Daughter of Islington, London - Pint at the bar
A Bailiffs Daughter drinking a pint of foaming ale at the bar of a pub in Islington, London Date: circa 1911

Canada - Transporting a load of fancy poulty, the size of which is certainly not paltry! Date: 1904

Performance by British POWs during WWII
A Christmas Show (Pantomime) performed by British Prisoners of War - during WW2. Possibly one of the less glamorous chorus lines of the 1940s (foreground) !!! Date: circa 1942

Young girl on Bank Holiday unhappy that a lady has same hat
Bank Holiday. " Just like Er. Been an copied my at!" Date: circa 1890s

Street Sellers in Cairo, Egypt - The gentleman on the left appears to be a seller of some form of fancy artisan goods. Date: circa 1900s

Family Christmas Dinner - 1950s. The young boy (front left) is wearing his Christmas present - a Martian Space Outfit. Date: early 1950s

Young boy posing in his Christmas Martian Space Outfit
Young boy posing in his Christmas " Martian Space Outfit", complete with walkie talkie radio. Date: early 1950s

British troops in India pretend to be rock-breaking convicts
British troops stationed in India having a bit of fun playing at being convicts! The caption " Ah (sic) we downhearted - roll on Oct"

Four girls promoting the News of the World
Four promo girls for the News of the World - circa 1905. Pictured outsides J Berrys Newsagents (also a postcard publisher) in Crediton, Devon

Norwich - Carnival - Seven Women as Portland Vase - Wedgwood
Norwich, Norfolk - A Carnival - Seven Women dressed as the Portland Vase advertising Wedgwood. The Portland vase was in the news at the time as th Earl of Portland tried to sell the original (Roman)

French Midget Entertainment Troupe - Les Colibris - Troupe Royal de Liliput. Date: circa 1910s

14th Anniversry celebration of the Turkish Republic - Turkey. Date: 1937

Young Gent - 12 Months before marriage - care and fancy free! Date: 1905

Festival float on Romford High Road, Essex, with chiclren dressed up as various characters (possibly types of the British Isles??). Date: circa 1928

Woman in Scottish fancy dress poses for a studio photograph in mid fling. Date: circa 1930

Women in fancy dress collecting for charity
Three women in fancy dress collecting for The Romford Cottage Hospital, Essex. Date: circa 1933

Portola Festival, San Francisco, USA
A night scene during the Portola Festival in full swing on Market Street, San Francisco, USA. The inset photograph shows Queen Virgilia (Virgilia Bogue), the Carnival Queen in 1913

Blind Musician, Bermuda with three young children persussionists accompanying his banjo playing. All are wearing remarkable costumes (which must have been seriously hot!). Date: circa 1909

Pigeons: Antwerp, Dragon. Illustration from John Matthews Eaton, A treatise on the art of breeding and managing, tame, domesticated and fancy pigeons. Date: 1858

Carassius auratus, carassin
LS Plate 169 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

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