Fantastic Collection (page 4)

Excavating Nonsuch 1959
Excavation work at Nonsuch Palace, Surrey. In 1959 no visible trace of the building existed. Excavations revealed foundations and many relics of Henry VIIIs fantastic palace. Date: 1959

Cartoon, The Inventors Dream, WW1
Cartoon, The Inventors Dream. An inventor dreams of fantastic new weaponry for delivery next spring. Date: 1917

Tipstitcher machine at Battersbys hatworks - a fantastic piece of solid engineering, obviously built to last! Date: 1902

Claude Houghton
CLAUDE HOUGHTON Author of novels and stories, mostly in the fantastic genre. Date: 1889 - 1961

Fantastic Pyrgi Costume - Island of Chios, Greece
Fantastic Female Costume from the Village of Pyrgi, Island of Chios, Greece Date: circa 1906

Red Indian Chief - Circling Bear (1800-1854), sporting a fantastic feather headdress and long pipe. Chief Conquering Bear was a Brule Lakota leader who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851

Russian Peasant Couple - Fantastic Headdress
Russian Peasant Couple of Southern Russia (Caucasus - possibly Georgia?) - The lady is wearing a fantastic Headdress, typical of this region. Date: circa 1902

Balloons and Anne - Rangoon - Met a balloon man with a fantastic armful of Walt Disneyish balloons they sell here for 2 annas. Date: 1951

The critics prize play of 1937 Maxwell Andersons fantastic comedy High tor. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of High Tor at the Belasco. Date 1937

Chas. H. Yales fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry mishaps of Nid and the weird, wonderful wanderings of Nod. Date c1898

Audresselle, France - Train Renard - A Road Train
Fantastic (and very rare) postcard depicting a road train devised by Charles Renard (also an airship pioneer) in 1903, which ran through the rural French villages of Wimereux

Ambletuse, France - Train Renard - A Road Train

Volcanic Landscape
Fantastic volcanic landscape - a crater in the Saian mountains of Mongolia. (Note the size of the human figures !) Date: 1858

Scene in Tartary
The fantastic rock-and-river landscape of Tehim-Bouac in the Alatou mountains of Chinese Tartary. Date: 1858

The Rose in The Devils Garden - Gordon Nicoll
The Rose in the Devils Garden by Gordon Nicoll Pretty young blonde-haired girl in a large white tutu and red ballet shoes, standing with her back to a stone wall

Holidaymakers and Fantastic Sandcastle
Holidaymakers admiring a fantastic sandcastle made by the family seated within its walls! Date: circa 1919

Exotic Italian dancer in fabulous costume
Anna Fougez - an exotic Italian dancer in fabulous costume, featuring a huge framework fan on her back in the form of a peacocks feather display

Elderly Turkish Man
Turkish Social Scene Photographic Postcard set (2 of 5). A fantastic photographic portrait of an elderly Turkish Man (from Eastern Turkey)

Should Autumn Come Before Fair Summers Call
A dancer in a fantastic costume suggestive of autumn and falling leaves

Brother and sister in a toy vintage car
A young boy in a sailor suit at the wheel of his fantastic replica model car complete, with running boards, fenders, horn, lanterns and steering wheel

Fantastic Floral Hat
A young lady managing to keep a straight face while wearing a ludicrously large plaited straw hat profusely trimmed with flowers & bows & tied on like a bonnet with a ribbon

A working fairy dressed in a green smock looks like he has just thought of a very good idea

Aerial Recce Foreseen
A flying machine capable of carrying out reconnaisance over the battlefield will be of great help in tomorrows wars : this fantastic device shows how it might look

Petrifying Spring / Turkey
Thermal spring waters laden with calcareous salts running off the plateaus edge have created this fantastic formation at Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, Turkey

Cheval Portrait P. Card
FERDINAND CHEVAL Rural postman and fantastic architect with his trusty wheelbarrow transporting rocks to build his Palais Ideal

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