Form Collection (page 12)

To a Mother at Churching
Document with instructions to mothers at the Christian ceremony of churching, where a woman returns to church after giving birth and is blessed

Oranges and Lemons
How many miles to Barneybright? Three score there are, and more. Shall we get there by candlelight? Oh! yes, and long before

Ordre Du Saint-Esprit
Henri III founds the ordre du Saint-Esprit : the Holy Spirit (in the form of a dove) is actually present though only one of the courtiers seems to have noticed. Date: 1579

Russian Borzoi Statue
A stone sculpture of a Russian Borzoi dog belonging to King Albert I of Belgium. It is in the form of a garden ornament, showing the dog drinking from a river. Date: 1930s

Sir Richard Wallace
SIR RICHARD WALLACE art patron, whose collection was donated by his widow to the nation to form the Wallace Collection in Londons Manchester Square, Date: 1818 - 1890

Richard Porson - 3
RICHARD PORSON Classical scholar, depicted in the form of an antique bust as befits the professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Date: 1759 - 1808

Subathers Form a Word
A group of innovative sunbathers, form the word l Italia, presumably on a beach in Italy! Date: early 1930s

Repeating Pattern - Dancing girls - silhouette - yellow
Repeating Pattern - Three young girls in pretty frocks dancing (in silhouette on yellow background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

The sole Gloster Goldfinch, J7940, in its original form ?
The sole Gloster Goldfinch, J7940, in its original form and prior to covering

Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, in its Gloster I form where the ?
Gloster Mars I, G-EAXZ, in its Gloster I form where the fuel tank was housed internally to improve the pilot?s view and the wings were rebuilt

Vickers Type 150 B19 / 27, J9131, in its original form in ?
Vickers Type 150 B19/27, J9131, in its original form in November 1929

The Royal Likeness - 3 / 3 - Queen Victoria
The Royal Likeness - 3/3 - Queen Victoria (1819-1901) - a remarkable fold-out card, which opened from an initial portrait of King George V to then show King Edward VII

The Royal Likeness - 2 / 3 - King Edward VII
The Royal Likeness - 2/3 - King Edward VII (1841-1910) - a remarkable fold-out card, which opened from an initial portrait of King George V to show Edward (here) and then finally Queen Victoria

The Royal Likeness - 1 / 3 - King George V
The Royal Likeness - 1/3 - King George V (1865-1936) - a remarkable fold-out card, which opens to revel King Edward VII and then Queen Victoria. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Two Japanese women and a baby take a rickshaw ride
Kobe, Japan - Two Japanese women and a baby take a rickshaw ride Date: circa 1904

Egyptian Fantasy card - State Telegram and Al-Azhar Mosque
Egyptian Fantasy card - featuring an Egyptian State Telegram and an inset photograph of the Al-Azhar University and Mosque, Cairo, Egypt (founded in 975) all on a faux papyrus background

Comic postcard commenting on the length of womens skirts - " Its a funny thing, but womens skirts are looking so short that they make men look very long!" Date: 1918

Mount Fuji, Japan - Reproduction of a woodcut by Hokusai - Fuji above the lightning. from the series: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Date: circa 1831

Mount Fuji, Japan - set in an attractive illustrated border
Photograph of Mount Fuji, Japan - set in an attractive illustrated border, featuring a well-to-do Japanese traveller, mounted on a fine white steed and attended by two companions Date: circa 1911

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Unoshima (Lake Kawaguchi). Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Kashiwabara Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Shidzuura near Numadzu Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - Reproduction of a Hokusai woodcut
Reproduction of a woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai entitled: Tago Bay near Ejiri on the Tokaido, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei) Date: circa 1830

Mount Fuji, Japan - from near Numaza Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Tagonoura (Takaido). Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from the Suzu River Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Lake Yamanaka Date: 1934

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Otometoge at Hakone Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Gotemba Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - with a village and agricultural workers labouring in the fields in the foreground. Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Numadzu
A fantastic view of Mount Fuji, Japan - from Numadzu, with a labourer carrying some baskets suspended off a yolk on his shoulder. Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Iwabuchi Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Sengokubara Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - with view over Lake Nishiumi Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - with view over Lake Hakone Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Otometoge Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - View from Shoji Lake Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - Viewed from Omiya Date: circa 1910s

Aleppo, Syria - clock tower of Bab al-Faraj
The clock tower of Bab al-Faraj is one of the main landmarks of Aleppo. The tower was built in 1898-1899 by the French architect of Aleppo city Charles Chartier Date: circa 1910s

Bronze statuette of a Horse - Greek 8th century BC. Date: circa 1930s

The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest - Istanbul, Turkey
The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest (Belgrad OrmanAn) lying 15km north-west of Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 1839 as one of the three dams that were constructed in the Taksim water conveyance

Rickshaw on the Nanjing Road (The Maloo) - Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1920

Tram, rickshaw and wheelbarrow - Shanghai, China
Tram, rickshaw and wheelbarrow - Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, China Date: circa 1909

Transport by wheelbarrow, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1908

Mosque - Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. The Minangkabau are strongly Islamic, but also follow their ethnic traditions, or adat

Tanzania - Usambara - Candelabra Tree
An amazing Candelabra tree (Euphorbia ingens) in the Usambara Mountains, a range in North-East Tanzania, East Africa (formerly German East Africa)

Turkish Fantasy Postcard - Imperial Ottoman Telegraph - beautiful collage card. Date: 1905

Coastal gun protecting the Canadian seaboard - WW2
Ponderous coastal gun protecting the Canadian seaboard - WW2 Date: circa 1940

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