Fold Collection

Turin Shroud 1934
The first photograph of the Shroud : the image is revealed more strongly in the negative. Water stains and fold marks also appear

Daily Mail War Map, WW1
A fold out war map issued by the Daily Mail in the early weeks of the First World War

Barlow Fold Road, Romiley, Stockport, Greater Manchester
Terraced cottages on Barlow Fold Road, Romiley, Stockport, Greater Manchester Date: circa 1907

Benja Fold, Bramhall, Lancashire
Benja Fold, Bramhall, Stockport, near Cheadle Hulme, Lancashire, England. Date: 1910s

Antioch (Antakya), Turkey
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey

Laundry at National Childrens Home, Harpenden, Herts
Girls iron and fold clean washing in the laundry at the National Childrens Home, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Shadow Caravan (closed) - harnessed to a Clyno Car
Ready for the Road: A Shadow Trailer Caravan (closed and ready to move off), harnessed to a Clyno Car. 1927

Public Laundry 1930S
The supervisor of a public laundry demonstrates how to fold clothes properly to a group of young women. Date: early 1930s

Woman / Mode Illustre / 1923
Barrel-line dress with fold over scarf collar & apron front in an orange & white rose print fabric with a tie belt worn low on the hips. She holds a hat with a broad brim

Norman women's dress of the 12th century. They wear long tunic robes, veils and wimples. Long sleeves terminating in a kind of pocket 131

Woman of Granada, Spain, 16th century. She wears a large violet silk mantle folded and tied to the arms, red gown with square-cut bodice, gold toque

Captain's Fold, Rawtenstall, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

WW2 Greetings Card, Royal Navy Sailor
The inside of a WW2 greetings card, the fold out illustration portrays a Royal Navy sailor standing on the deck of his ship. All the nice girls love a sailor. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, Royal Navy Sailors
The inside of a WW2 greetings card, the fold out illustration portrays three musical Royal Navy sailors, singing and playing the accordion, a black cat symbolic of good fortune sits beside

WW2 Greetings Card, Saluting Soldiers
The inside of a WW2 greetings card, the fold out illustration shows two saluting soldiers and a black cat, symbolic of good fortune, standing by their camouflaged military vehicles. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 A. T. S. Greetings Card
The inside of a WW2 greetings card, the fold out illustration portrays a British woman of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, standing by a camouflaged van under the Union Jack flag. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Land Girl Greetings Card
The inside of a WW2 greetings card, the fold out illustration portrays a young British land girl working on her red tractor. Here's to the modern farmer's boy. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, The Lion Has Wings
The inside of a WW2 greetings card, the fold out illustration portrays a saluting Royal Air Force man in his blue uniform, with a background comprising of British fighter planes and a large R.A.F

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic - brochure
White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic, The Largest Steamers in the World - red cover foldout cutaway brochure, The Central Shipping Agency, Bath. Date: early 20th century

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, foldout brochure
White Star Line, RMS Olympic, foldout publicity brochure for the Triple-Screw 46, 439 ton ship - The Largest British Steamer. 20 x 11 inches when unfolded, Date: circa 1926

RMS Olympic - dinner menu, abstract of log cards
RMS Olympic - Second Class dinner fold over menu, dated 20 August 1920; two abstract of log cards dated 1920 and 1932. Date: 1920-1932

Gregory Homilia in Evangelia (Fragment)
Single leaf of parchment, cut to size for use as a binding cover

Breviary (Fragment)
Two leaves, probably from a breviary, parchment. The leaves are from the same work but do not appear to be consecutive. Main body text in two columns in a Gothic textualis rotunda in dark brown ink

Shadow Show - Silhouette Cut-Outs 1881
A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper for a shadow show stand with various silhouettes surrounding, to be cut-out, to entertain children for Christmas. Date: 1881

Thaumatropes - Cut-Out 1881
A fold-out page from The Boy's Own Paper of a thaumatropes. A disc shape optical toy that was popular in the 19th century. Date: 1881

Sennacherib Plague Religion Bible Events Old
sennacherib, plague, religion, bible, events, old, testament, circa, 701, bc, assyrian, king, invades, israel, like, wolf, fold, angel, lord, destroys, army, bubonic, 185, 000, die, saved, history

BOOK OF THE DEAD/31
The Hail of the Two-fold Maat decorated with uraei and feathers symbolical of the Law. Within are the 42 judges of the dead, 33 shown here

BOOK OF THE DEAD/32
1. Hall of the Two-fold Maat showing the remaining 9 judges of the dead. (refer to plate 31) 2. 23 gods to wom are severally assigned various parts of the body

Bach et Laverne, French comic duo - Charles-Joseph Pasquier and Henry-Laverne. Date: 1930s

Original Artwork - Fold-out Christmas card
Original Artwork - Design for a fold-out Christmas card showing a little girl surprised to find a cheeky mouse has nibbled through the toe of her stocking! Date: circa 1937

Christmas fold-out greetings card - playing card king - Wishing you Good Bridge this Christmas. Date: circa 1937

Christmas Fold-out Greetings Card - Melting Snowman
Christmas Fold-out Greetings Card - Snowman meets his demise thanks to rain and the kindly gift of a hot water bottle from a little girl. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Design for a fold-out New Home - New Address - greetings card in the shape of a house. Date: circa 1937

c. 1880s Japan - geisha with a paper bird

Paper Dolls, The Italian Twins. 1922

Public laundries, Marshall Street, London 1900
Interior of a public wash-house with women wringing out wet clothes on mangles and folding them. 1900

Toy Electric Tram Model to cut out and fold together. Date: circa 1910s

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Chicago of Today Date: circa 1942

Advert Theodore Hamblin, fold-away spectacles 1937
Trade mark spectacle, that fold into a compact case, available from Theodore Hamblin, Wigmore Street, London. Date: 1937

Daily Mail War Map, WW1
Front cover of a fold out war map issued by the Daily Mail in the early weeks of the First World War

The Queen of Sheba: An Amusing Christmas Game
A reworking of blind mans bluff

Summer Frock / Doeuillet
Summer tunic dress: V -neck & fold-over collar, a gauged yoke to the gathered over- skirt, scalloped hems, a sash with floating ends & shoes with 3 bars over the instep

Greece. Hellenistic period. Statue of a woman. Marble. Ashkelon. 2nd century BC. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Head of a priestess of the goddess Vesta. 100-20 AD
Head of statue of a priestess of the goddess Vesta. Marble. 100-20 AD. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Statue of the goddess Artemis, perhaps Artemis Bendis wearing a Phrygian cap. Limestone. Made in Cyprus. 300-200 BC. From the Sanctuary of Apollo at Pyla. British Museum. London. England

Statue of Ankhrekhu. Egypt
Quartzite statue of Ankhrekhu. 1850 BC. 12th Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Panoramic view of Samsun, Turkey (1 / 2)
Panoramic view of Samsun, Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital of Samsun Province and important Port. Former Greek colony (BC). Captured by Seljuks in 1200

Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold - humorous illustrative interpretation of a quote from Lord Byron by Victorian illustrator and postcard publisher Martin Anderson ( Cynicus )

Intefs seated statue. Egypt
Intefs seated statue. Limestone. Wearing with a wig, long skirt and with abdominal folds with which scuptor shows Intefs high social status, associated to abundant food and sedentary lifestyle

Sennacherib (Barlow)
Assyrian ruler Sennacherib comes down on the Jews like a wolf on the fold, but the Angel of the Lord (in the form of bubonic plague) destroys 185, 000 of them... Date: circa 701 BC

Costume by Rouff 1931
A tailored suit in grey by Maggy Rouff. The skirt has large pleats and the jacket is belted and has an unusual fold-back cuff detail. Date: 1931

Fold-Away Bath Advert
An advertisement for a foldaway bath Date: 1881

Blank sheet of Marlborough House SW1 notepaper. Date: circa 1930s

Peel Street, Clough Fold, Lancashire
Peel Street, Clough Fold, Rossendale, near Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England. Date: 1914

British bombers with folding wings 1918
Built before the Gothas, British bombers with fold out wings. Reducing space, necessary for storage. Date: 1918

The laundry room of the Cavendish Hotel, 81-83 Jermyn Street, London Date: C. 1910

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Sparrows in London
Sparrows (and one pigeon!) on two fold-up wooden chairs in Kensington Gardens, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Fold-out Christmas Card printed on some form of synthetic vellum - featuring depictions of exotic black children from a fantasy land in the sun. Date: 1933

Panoramic photograph - The Grand Harbour, Valletta Malta
Panoramic fold-out photograph of The Grand Harbour, Valletta Malta. Date: circa 1920s

Greetings from Bermuda Islands Date: circa 1930s

Panoramic view of Samsun, Turkey (2 / 2)
Panoramic view of Samsun, Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea. Capital of Samsun Province and important Port. Former Greek colony (BC). Captured by Seljuks in 1200

Hieroglyphical print of the church of God in her five fold state

Italian Patriotic Card - Bank Loans / Savings
Italian Patriotic Card - Bank Loans/Savings encouraged during World War One. The text mentions connecting savers to the national effort, which " you help underwrite". Date: circa 1910s

ABBEY FOLD
Abbey Fold, a reconstructed early 19th century street, at Kirkstall Abbey House Museum, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Note the Safety bicycle and water pump. Date: 19th century

Soviet Russian political cartoon
A Soviet Russian political cartoon containing a satirical image of the late Tsar Nicholas II (top right) and the anti-Bolshevik general Pyotr Wrangel (middle right)

Initiation of the Prince of Thanks
The candidate, blind-folded and wearing wings, soars and falls onto a blanket held by several existing members. There is a lady watching on from inside a well. Date: 1890s

Music at home - a lady plays the piano
" Dulce let her fingers stray for a few moments aimlessly over the keys." Date: 1891

Toad in Disguise / Grahame
Toad in disguise: " She arranged the shawl with a professional fold, & tied the strings of the rusty bonnet under his chin." Date: First published: 1908

SUNBEAM 1907
Frederick Eastmead and friends in a 15/20 Sunbeam, a quality tourer fitted with fold-back hood, windscreen, lamps, horn and spare tyre. 1907

Folding car / W H Robinson
The Collapso folding car, to house your car overnight in the oddest of places such as sheds and wardrobes

Fold-out view of Vesuvius Volcano - Funicular Railway
A fold-out panoramic view of the city of Naples and Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Vesuvius is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years

Antioch - Turkey
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey

Fold-out postcard with scenes of Shanghai, China

White Star Line paper napkin
A White Star Line paper napkin, embossed with an ornate design and the name of the luxury cruise line

White Star Line linen napkin
A White Star Line linen napkin, embossed with an ornate design and the name of the luxury cruise line

Table napkins
Six ways to fold napkins. Top left, Victorian fan; right, Cornet; centre left, Water Lily; right, Swan; bottom left, Mitre; right, Pocket fold

Folding Ballots in a New York Politicians House, 1872
Engraving showing a drawing room in a New York politicians house with a group of young ladies helping to fold ballot papers for the 1872 Presidential election

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

Black Ensemble 1929
Ensemble by Ts Talbot: black crepe satin dress with deep fold-over collar, bow fastenings down the front, cap sleeves & tiered flounces descending from the hips

BUSTLE
Canfields Bustle for the Million : a spring enables it to fold when the wearer is sitting or lying down, resuming its proper position when she rises

How to Fold Serviettes
Serviettes, and how to fold them

Mole & Chamois Skin Coat
3/4 length coat narrow in the bodice & then flaring from the hip composed of triangular sections of moleskin & chamois leather with a hood, deep fold back cuffs, belt & fur beret

Bewick Hooded Seal
(cystophoro cristata) A native of Greenland, it has a fold of skin on its forehead with which it can cover its eyes and nose

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