Flip Collection

Advert for Mappin & Webb Ermeto Movado pocket watch 1934
Ermeto Movado watches a new model at a new price. Built for a life-times service, they have strong outer cases ensuring double glass breakage. Date: 1934

Advert for Tyme, Ermeto Movado ladies pocket watch 1933
Tyme, the best pocket watch made. Small and compact, yet absolutely protected against all causes of trouble. Can be carried in any pocket or hand-bag with other articles. Date: 1933

Advert for Mappin & Webb Ermeto Movado pocket watch 1933
Ermeto Movado watches are the last word in efficiency. The movements are doubly protected against dust, damp, and breakage by an inner and outer case

Smoking Geisha
A nonchalant Japanese geisha girl, smoking a cigarette, wearing flip-flop sandals. Date: 1930s

Flip flap, Franco British White City Exhibition in London in 1908

The Flip-Flap, The Franco-British Exhibition at White City, London, in 1908

Flip-flap Franco-British Exhibition at the White City London in 1908

Flip Flap at the White City Franco British Exhibition, 1908
View from the Flip Flap at the White City Franco British Exhibition in 1908

Flip-Flap ride at the Franco-British Exhibition 1908
The Flip-Flap ride with compartments that swung horizontally holding fifty people, held at Franco-British Exhibition at Shepherd's Bush, London. Date: 1908

Comic postcard, Edinburgh Exhibition - invitation to flip-flap Date: 20th century

FALL / POINTER / 1936
BALMUTO FLIP Photographed working in the field. Owner: Lorna, Countess Howe Date: 1936

FRANCO-BRITISH / FLIP-FLAP
The Franco-British exhibition held at the White City, London. This picture shows the Flip-Flap - a type of fairground ride. Date: 1908

Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Mk. 1A G-ALIK
Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Mk.1A G-ALIK (msn WA/H/3) at the Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party on 15th June 1952. In the background can be seen British European Airways Bell 47B-3 G-AKFB

Advert for Ronson lighters 1938
Give her a lighter that lights! Advertisement for a range of lighters by Ronson. 1938

GLC-LFB Turntable ladder overturned on roadway
Lack of stability at speed and when manoeuvring very occasionally resulted in fire engines overturning, because of the relatively high centre of gravity (loading) of the turntable ladder

Advert for Wilson & Gill, Ermeto ladies pocket - bag watch
The most practical and stylish watch ever introduced, commencing the third chapter in the history of the watch. Shock-proof, dust-proof and damp-proof; protected against glass breakage

British Caribbean and white men playing cricket in Oman
Oman. British Caribbean and white men playing cricket in the dessert. White man wearing short, hat and flip flop. Date: 1976

Camels in Oman
Oman. Camels in the dessert. Man wearing traditional clothes. Man holding rifle wearing flip flop. Date: 1976

Divers inside underwater house off the coast of Malta
Brian Ray, 27, and Peter Newman (in diving gear) during a coffee break inside the Underwater House, with its stool and life support box. Brian is using the telephone

Diving exhibition, Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
Diving exhibition at Carl Fishers Casino and Roman Pools, 23rd Street and Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA. Date: 1922

Mother and son with pet dog and kitten
A mother and her son at home with their pet dog and tabby kitten. Date: circa 1960s

Fairground - Flip-Flap, White City, London
Fairground - Flip-Flap, White City, County of London, England. Franco British Exhibition Date: 1908

Different types of shoe, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Morris flip top table advertisement
The Morris Triple Fliptop table, the table that actually grows and grows and grows. The accompanying photographs show a table four ingeniously transformed into a table for ten with the help of a

Flip Flap Ride - Franco-British Exhibition of 1908
View of the Flip-Flap ride at the Franco-British Exhibition, held at White City, West London. The Bahamas House is on the right, Date: 1908

Athletes. Flip flap

Ideas for Christmas presents for children, 1930
Page of ideas in The Tatler for Christmas gifts for children, including a pretty party frock from Rowe, a toy motor-car from Selfridges with Flip the Frog and his family, a toddle cart

Flip-Flap, Franco-British Exhibition, London
View of the Flip-Flap ride at the Franco-British Exhibition, held at White City, West London. It is next to a building exhibiting Glass Making. Date: 1908

Japan British Exhibition
The Japan-British Exhibition at White City, London. Utilised the site of the Franco-British exhibition of 1908. The Cascade

Franco-British / Flip-Flap
The Franco-British exhibition held at the White City, London. This picture shows the Flip-Flap - a type of fairground ride

GAY GLOW GAS FIRE
An attractive young housewife flips through a fashion magazine, warming her white stilettos by her Gay Glow gas fire. Date: 1960s

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