Heads Collection (page 5)

Zmey Goynych (Slavic Three-headed dragon)
Reproduction of a painting by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin depicting the Zmey Goynych (Slavic three-headed dragon). The Russian version (pictured) has three heads, is green, walks on two back paws

Earliest known carved heads in Syria, at Tell Brak
The earliest known carved heads in Syria, found at Tell Brak. This page from the Illustrated London News in May 1939, reporting on excavations at Brak

Gold Buddha statue head Wat Panping Temple, Chiang Mai
Gold Buddha statue head and face at Wat Panping Temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Starry Gazey Pie, Ship Inn, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole

The Germanic god Wotan, corresponding to the Scandinavian Odin, represented as a warrior armed with sword and helmet with two bird heads. Funerary stele of the late 7th century. Merovingian art

African Lion - lioness with mouth open (Panthera leo). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania

Bottlenose Dolphin - with mouth wide open above surface (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and Risso s
Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and Rissos Dolphin swimming underwater (Grampus griseus)

Bottlenose Dolphin with mouth open (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose dolphins - blowing air bubbles underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubble (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Proboscis / Long-nosed MONKEY (Nasilis larvatus)

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - two, facing, one on top of the other (tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - blows bubbles from blow hole, facing camera (Tursiops truncatus). air bubbles rising. Complex play / creative behaviour

Proboscis / Long-nosed MONKEY - side view of face (Nasilis larvatus)

Employees - Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA
The 25, 000 Employees of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA pose for a group photograph in front of the factory buildings

Azores, Portugal - Maize Pyramids. Date: 1910s

Dummy heads rising above the side of a trench, WW1
Four dummy heads of British soldiers rising above the side of a trench during the First World War, to deceive potential snipers. Date: 1914-1918

Flying Scotsman 1930S
The London and North Eastern Railways Flying Scotsman express, drawn by the A4 Pacific Union of South Africa leaves Kings Cross and heads for Edinburgh

Three Cherubim
Three types of cherub (plural is cherubim), each with a combination of human and animal attributes - animal heads or feet, three pairs of wings &c

Portraits of the Heads of State of the Allies
King George V, President Poincare, the Tsar and the King of the Belgians. WW1 Date: 1914

Greetings card in the shape of a handbag, with ducks
Greetings card in the shape of a handbag, with two ducks poking their heads out. Date: circa 1890s

Clown head on a Victorian scrap
Clown head in profile on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Three dogs with moveable heads on a Christmas card
Three dogs with moveable heads sitting at a dinner table on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Three girls working in the fields, India
Three little girls with baskets on their heads, working in the fields, India. Date: circa 1890s

Signing the Treaty of Peace at Vienaa [sic]. Coloured aquatint by J C Stadler after William Heath, published by Thomas Tegg, 1 April 1818

Diana Vreeland wearing a Maria Guy Hat
Diana Vreeland (19031989) wearing a Maria Guy Hat. Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion, working for Harpers Bazaar and Vogue

Bank Heads, Larne - an elevated view showing promenade and swimming piers and Chaine memorial in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Larne). Date: circa early 1900s

Chinook family
Chinook tribe, showing a man and woman carrying their baby on the mothers back, a method of flattening the babies forehead was used

Two frogs fighting over a snail on a Christmas card -- Heads I win, tails you lose. Date: circa 1890s

First journey of Londons electric tram 1903
Londoners throng the pavements of Westminster Bridge Road to watch the first journey of Londons first electric tram as it heads for Clapham. Date: 1903

Army over Sleeping Men
THE DREAM OF GLORY Over the heads of the sleeping soldiers, a visionarmy sweeps forward to glorious victory... Date: 19th century

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Micky and Cracker, an Irish Wolfhound and a Bull Terrier. Seen here behind his desk, growing bored by the story about the monkey. Date: 1927

Cartoon, Promis d Horrors of the French Invasion, or, Forcible Reasons for negotiating a Regicide Peace, Vide, The Authority of Edmund Burke, by James Gillray

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). Cartoon called A Radical Reformer, i.e. A Neck or Nothing Man! Dedicated to the Heads of the Nation. It was published by Thomas Tegg of Cheapside on 17 September 1819

India - Bullock Cart with six oxen
Black and white. A loaded cart with six white oxen outside a row of buildings. There are two young boys beside it with baskets on their heads.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection

European Bison - adult male bull lying down - mixed forest (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

Leopard - in a tree looking for prey (Panthera pardus). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania - Africa

Palawan Bearded Pig - young (Sus barbatus ahoenobarbus). Sabang, Palawan, Philippines. February. Formerly a subspecies of Sus barbatus now considered a separate species

Eritrean Girl - Wearing headwear. Massawa - Eritrea - Africa

Small Japanese Field Mouse - showing incisor teeth (Apodemus argenteus)

Young Pine Marten - close-up on forest floor (Martes martes). Ural Mountains, Russia

Bottlenose Dolphin - two, smiling (Tursiops truncatus)

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

Smooth otter - tamed wild animal, plays with visitors in Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary (Lutra (Lutrogale) perspicillata). Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Plate design - Heads of State and flags of the Allies - WWI
Unmarked plate. Transfer shows portraits of Heads of State and flags of the Allies, and reads 1914 - THE ALLIES - HONOUR - DEFENCE - PEACE. Good condition. Commemorative Ware

Fantoft Stave Church near Bergen, Norway
View of Fantoft Stave Church near Bergen, Norway, dating back to the 12th century. Built of wood, it is decorated with stylised horses heads, influenced by the Asa, or horse worship of the Vikings

Three cartoons at the start of the First World War: at the top, a comment on needing another war to collect the debts for this one

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