Grey Collection (page 14)

Animals at a French Zoo - Blackfaced kangeroos - kangeroos sitting on Straw. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo

2nd Dragoons Scout, Royal Scots Greys
2nd Dragoons Scout of the Royal Scots Greys, a regiment present at the Relief of Kimberley during the Second Boer War. Date: circa 1900s

Blank menu card in the shape of a plate. Date: circa 1910s

Paul Nelke, businessman
PAUL NELKE Businessman and racehorse owner Date: 1860 -

Eduard Buchner / Nobel 07
EDUARD BUCHNER German chemist Date: 1860 - 1917

Cartoon, Two young Frenchwomen, WW1
Two women in winter coats which echo the fashionable silhouette: high waisted, voluminous skirts & high all round collars. Hats now have high crowns & narrow brims. Date: 1918

General Kuropatkin, Russia
ALEXEI NIKOLAIEVICH KUROPATKIN Russian general. Below are the words: I regret to report... (after losing the Battle of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War). Date: 1848 - 1921

Pifco Electric Trouser Press, for a knife edged crease! 1950s

Cheque from the Bank of Friendship Unlimited, Goodwill Square Branch, with one thousand kind wishes from Ernestine Edgcumbe to Ernest Cust. circa 1890s

Fashions by Dior and Worth
In the background is a two-piece by Dior of silk shantung dyed to a mandarin colour. The pleated skirt is mounted on a chemise top and worn with a sleeveless bodice trimmed with matching bows

Poster, Indian Air Force jets with elephant
Poster, Indian Air Force jets (Folland Gnats) with elephant in the foreground, design by Laurence Fish, original artwork for a magazine advertisement. Date: circa 1950

Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, WW1
Cartoon, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Judas, both seen as betrayers. Judas hanged himself in remorse after betraying Christ, and he now offers Ferdinand a rope for him to do the same. Date: 1915

Patent Triplex Grate D Pattern with Grey Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Mice and Men by Winifred C. Honey, 1920s woman with cat
Illustration showing an elegant woman with cropped hair posing with a grey cat. The background shows silhouettes of men running from scurrying mice. Date: 1929

Illustration, Tam O Shanter
Illustration to Tam O Shanter, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Young Trout, Salmon Parr, and Smelt
Young Trout (Salmo cambricus or Salmo trutta, also known as Young Salmon, Silver Salmon, Sea Trout, Sewen and Sewin), Salmon Parr (Salmo salar, Salmo salmulus)

Salmo trutta, or Brown Trout, also known as Grey Trout, Bull Trout, Sea Truff and Pugtrout. Date: 1879

Salmo trutta, or Salmon Trout. Date: 1879

Salmo salar, or Atlantic Salmon (male), a freshwater and marine variety. Date: 1879

Liza aurata, or Long-Finned Grey or Golden Mullet
Orcynopsis unicolor, or Plain Bonito, also known as Palomette and Tasarte, belonging to the mackerel family. Date: 1863

Ranzania laevis, or Slender Sunfish, of the Molidae family, also known as Longer Sunfish. Date: 1865

Balistes capriscus, or Grey Triggerfish (described here as a Filefish). Date: 1865

Salvelinus alpinus alpinus, or Alpine Char (also known as Arctic Char), a member of the Salmonidae family. Date: 1865

Salmo salar, or Parr and Samlet
Salmo salar (Salmo salmulus) Parr and Samlet, also known as Branlin, Palmer Trout, Trotter, Hipper and Farthing Trout. Date: 1865

Mugil cephalus, or Flathead mullet
Mugil cephalus, or Flathead Mullet, also known as Grey Mullet, Great Mullet and (simply) Mullet. Date: 1864

Katsuwonus pelamis, or Skipjack tuna, also known as Bonito, Mushmouth, Striped Tuna or Victor Fish. Date: 1863

Serranus cabrilla, or Comber, also known as Smooth Serranus. Date: 1862

French Theatre -- Les Trois Galans
Les Trois Galans [Galants] (The Three Gallants or Suitors), a farce. Showing one of the gallants sitting on a chair, holding up a glass of wine. Date: 16th century

Common heron, Ardea major, Grey heron, Ardea cinerea.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Grey Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England. Date: 1960s

Fraulein Feldgrau on a WW1 postcard. She was a popular pinup for German soldiers. The red touches to the uniform have been added by hand. Date: 1914-1918

Working Horse - lying down sleeping (Equus ferus caballus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

Great Indian / One-horned RHINOCEROS / rhino - Close up of head in water, side on. (Rhinoceros unicornis). Chitwan National Park, Nepal

RMS Aquitania, cruise ship in war paint, WW1
RMS Aquitania, Cunard Line cruise ship, seen here in war paint during the First World War. The ship served as an armed merchant cruiser, as a troop ship and as a hospital ship. Date: 1914-1918

Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), English scientist, champion of Darwins Theory of Evolution. Date: late 19th century

Cabinet Members, New Liberal Government
Cabinet Members of the New Liberal Government; H Gladstone, Haldane, Sydney Buxton, Earl Carrington, Lord Tweedmouth, Earl of Crewe, Bryce, Lloyd-George, H Fowler, Augustine Birrell, J Sinclair

Suffragette Votes for Women Ceramic Cat
A dark grey pottery figure of a cat with ribbon bow around its neck. This example has a hole at the top of the head and could have been used as a match holder or small vase

Sir Edward Grey & Lord Haldane, outbreak of First World War
Lord Haldane (Lord Chancellor, formerly Secretary of State for War) and Sir Edward Grey (Foreign Minister) on their way to a Cabinet meeting during the crisis leading up to the First World War

Grey Wornum designing Coronation street decorations
George Grey Wornum (1888-1957), British architect, pictured at his drawing board in the midst of designing street decorations around London for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937. Date: 1937

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen Consort of Bavaria
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (18491919), Queen Consort of Bavaria, wife of Ludwig III, in a portrait by Walther (Walter) Firle

Sarah Bernhardt, French actress in Rostands L Aiglon
Sarah Bernhardt (1845-1923), French actress in Rostands L Aiglon in 1900, in the role of the Duke of Reichstadt. Date: 1900

British Moths and Caterpillars - Various
British Moths - Various, including: Kentish Glory Moth, Wood Tiger Moth, Spurge Hawk Moth, Magpie Moth, Puss Moth and caterpillar and Grey Dagger Moth and caterpillar. Date: circa 1910s

Oyster from Margate on a shell-shaped greetings card
Oyster from Merry Margate (Kent) on a shell-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Design for Wallpaper with grey leaves. Watercolour and Charcoal on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1942

Design for Borders (Wallpaper) with fruit

Design for Borders in brown and grey. Charcoal on copy paper. Silver Studio. 1931

Columba palumbus, woodpigeon
Plate 23 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Anthracoceros albirostris convexus, Oriental pied hornbill
Plate 39, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

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