Gentlemen Collection (page 10)

Football Terms Illustrated - Well Collared!. Two smart Gents (Dedicated Followers of Fashion!) in really rather ridiculous starched collars, stroll arm in arm down Park Lane past Marble Arch

Keep Fit - Running for the Train
Keep Fit - Take a walk every morning! Three portly city gent having to scramble to make their morning train into the city. Date: 1943

Gabon, Africa - Domesticated Zebra and two colonials
Gabon, Africa - Domesticated Zebra (seemingly used for pulling a carriage) and two colonials! Date: circa 1910s

Suicide - the last thng he did
" So Poor Old Mike committed suicide." " Yes." " That was the LAST thing I thought he d do." " Which it were, Sorr." Date: 1894

A Reminiscence of the Pelican. Members of the Old Pelican Club around the Square Ring including the Duke of Beaufort and Sir John Astley

Mistaken translation of saying difficult English surnames Overheard on an Atlantic Liner Colonel Moses R. Hankey - " Theres one thing I kaant understand about your English way of spelling names

Bereavement humour - losing ones wife
Condoling Friend (to recently Bereaved Widower) - " It must be awfully hard to lose ones wife." The Bereaved: " Yes, its almost impossible." !!! Date: circa 1890s

Drunken Gentleman requesting a clove off a Policeman
Drunken Gentleman in multiple stages of disarray requests a clove from a London Policeman in order to disguise (fat chance!) the evidence that he has been boozing. Date: circa 1890s

Phil Mays Social caricature - leading Victorian Gentlemen
Phil Mays First Social caricature - published in the Christmas Issue of Society - the leading figures of the late Victorian age, including Henry Irving, The Dean of Westminster

Discussion on merits of Smoking for Health reasons
First Johnnie: " Aw -why do you make your own cigarettes?" Second Ditto: " My-aw-doctor ordered me some light exercise." Date: 1894

Beautifully dressed passengers on the Underground. As the card states: The Bakerloo & Piccadilly Tubes afford the maximum of speed, safety

Bulgarian hunting party and their bag
Bulgarian hunting party and their game bag of small deer, in the Sredna-Gora, a mountain range in central Bulgaria. Date: circa 1910s

Cricket Illustrated - Bounder-y
Cricket Illustrated - " Bounder-y!" A superb postcard (as ever) by Bradshaw showing three caddish English Bounders of the Top Drawer, ready to cause some larks and pranks at the seaside

King Gustav & Guests
GUSTAV V, KING OF SWEDEN (1912-1950), chatting to a gathering of ladies and gentlemen after a tennis match. Date: 1858 - 1950

London Season / Cruikshank
A girls vision of the London Season. Included in the montage: balls; presentation at court; riding in rotten row, clothes; a wedding, gentlemen callers........ Date: 1840s

The gentlemen from New York. Illustration shows Thomas C. Platt and Chauncey M. Depew wearing 16th century theatrical costumes in a scene from Shakespeares play Henry IV. Date 1906 January 10

Make me an offer, gentlemen!. Illustration shows Uncle Sam standing on a platform with a Philippine man next to a sign that states For Sale The Philippines. Inhabitants benevolently assimilated

Take your choice, gentlemen. Illustration shows Puck standing on a ballot box between President Theodore Roosevelt, who has one foot on the Constitution

Boulogne Restaurant - Gerrard Street, London - Advert
Advertisement for the Boulogne Restaurant - 27 Gerrard Street, London, featuring a cartoon and quote. See 10586805 for a promotional postcard (interior photograph of the restaurant)

Chorus Gentlemen by Howard K. Elcock
A lady in evening dress plays a grand piano, while a gentleman in white tie contemplates a group of framed portraits on the mantlepiece. Note the copy of The Bystander on the grand piano. Date: 1927

Night ascent. Royal Standard Tavern, pleasure grounds & tea gardens... H. Brading, Proprietor... has, at the solicitation of several scientific gentlemen, prevailed on Mr. Gypson, who will

General Tom Thumb & Wife, Commander Nutt & Minnie Warren. Four wondrously formed & strangely beautiful ladies & gentlemen in miniature, natures smallest editions of her choicest works

Susanna and the Elders by Wilmot Lunt
A young pretty actress entertains two mature admirers in her dressing room, hence the play on the Biblical title to the picture. Date: 1927

Don t sign that declaration, gentlemen! You ll hurt business!. Illustration shows a sketch after Trumbulls painting The Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R

Elizabeth Gatley and her bearded brothers
Elizabeth Gatley (Lee) and her bearded brothers, Richard, John, Henry, Thomas, James and William! James (second from left - seated) is in mourning for his wife, hence the black armband

Taking the Waters and its effect
Taking the Waters - The First Glass ! Nine gentlemen take the waters in a spa town, with the result depicted by a tenth chap at the base of the card, from whom bubbles are issuing forth. circa 1904

Hobble, hobble, toil and wobble
The hobble waltz-the dance of the season. The hazards of dancing in a fashionable hobble skirt, shown here gathered in at the knee

Comparison of height and girth
A small squat, bald and rather rotund Italian gentleman, complains to his slender and tall friend about the disparity in their physicality! Date: 1917

Silhouette of a chess game
Charming silhouette scene depicting two men playing a game of chess. Date: c.1830

Advert for Moss Bros mens evening wear
Advertisement for gentlemens 1930s evening wear. Date: 1930

A patrol of boy scouts marching to the rendezvous at the commencement of operations. The Scouts field day at Aldershot has developed into a splendidly organised monthly meeting

Gentlemen prefer blondes
A group of brunette girls queuing outside the hairdressers, to get their hair dyed blonde because they are not getting the attention from the boys that they would like. 1926

Vantella Shirt Christmas advertisement, 1953
A glamorous wife ties her husands bow tie, the finishing touch to the Vantella shirt she has bought him for Christmas. Date: 1953

Crowd at a Horse Racing Meeting, standing close to the Secretary of the Courses Pavilion. circa 1885

Proudest Moment by Fougasse
The Proudest Moment of his Life by Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird 1887-1965). A small man, profoundly embarrassed, sits at the head of a table at a company or club dinner in his honour as everyone

Street music: Gypsies playing guitar, 1855
Gypsies playing guitar on the streets of Paris attract the attention of a passing shop girl and some gentlemen. Date: 1855

1950s Christmas decorations cartoon
Two rather conservative gentlemen survey with curiosity a hanging Atomic style mobile in an otherwise traditional sitting room while one comments to the other, Got no idea

Silhouette portraits, early 19th century
A group of silhouette portraits from the Regency period. Clockwise from top left, a painted silhouette with gold pencilling

Dr Syntax made free of the cellar
Having free reign of the large barrels in the cellar, Dr Syntax makes merry with several gentlemen. Date: 1813

Daks advertisement, 1951
Advertisement for Daks suits, featuring a couple of chaps sporting checked suits, and smoking pipes. Date: 1951

Dispute in a rail carriage
A fight breaks out among business men in a train carriage, who are debating fiscal retaliation. 1903

Two men, Harold and Clarence, having a conversation. Clarence is on his way to see his solicitors to bring a libel action -- someone has been telling people that he deserves the OBE! circa 1916

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp by Jeffryes
Stylised illustration by Jeffryes showing a man in evening attire rather bemused by a huge, bending street lamp. Date: 1930

Summer holiday fashions from Simpson of Piccadilly, 1953
Advertisement for mens beachwear from Simpson of Piccadilly, showing four men wearing outfits that range from the faintly ridiculous to the outrageously camp. Date: 1953

Special Coronation Moss Bros advertisement
A Moss Bros advertisement commemorating the coronation, featuring two smartly dressed gentlemen and a lady viewing the coronation procession from a balcony. Date: 1953

Daks advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Daks suits by Simpson of Piccadilly featuring a well-groomed 1950s chap wearing his suit well. Date: 1953

The cider cellar, 1850
Men drinking at a pub in the Strand called The Cider Cellar. Date: 1850

The Toast by W. R. S. Stott
An early 19th century scene showing four jovial gentlemen raising a toast in front of a blazing fire. Date: 1936

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