Horrible Collection

A horrible business - Butchers shop, 1851
Humourous scene from a butchers shop, 1851. Master Butcher: " Did you take old Major Dumbledores ribs to No. 12?" Boy: " Yes

Strong Cheese repels diner and waiter
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Cheese: " Supply much stronger, but very little demand." This commodities phrasiology is illustrated by a waiter struggling to cope

A roast pig on a spit, West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Comic postcard, Honourable intentions Date: 20th century

Cartoon, Horrible Incident in Real Life
The master of a household visits the kitchen to get a little supper after the servants have gone, only to find it crawling with cockroaches. 1852

COLD CHICKEN SALAD
The rather unappetising combination of chicken in aspic and cold salad. Date: 1940s

HORRIBLE BORE
A horrible Bore in the company. The social bore is depicted as a boar. Fellow guests shun his companionship. Date: 1840s

Suffragette Ghost Horrible Nightmare. Man wakes up to find a ghost in shroud, holding a gun to his head, and brandishing a VFW placard. Caption reads, A Horrible Nightmare Date: circa 1907

Crab bites a young boys toe
A rather Brattish looking young child getting his seaside comeuppance, as a crab takes a fancy to his big toe! Date: 1903

Cartoon, George Robert Sims, writer
Cartoon, George Robert Sims (1847-1922), English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist, seen here dressed as a policeman

Cartoon, German women gossipping, WW1
Cartoon, German women gossipping about a diner in a restaurant -- He must be a horrible French spy! Hes eating his veal without jam! Date: 1915

The Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet
An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet, comprising of eggs, carrots, a turnip and a dead cat! " He who pitches too high, won t get through his song"

The Tenor hits a high note and a special bouquet awaits
The Tenors Top Note. An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is about to meet a special bouquet, comprising of rotten eggs, a carrot and a turnip !! Date: circa 1910s

Cambodia - Water Buffalo and hanging elephants feet
Cambodia - A small settlement with Water Buffalo and a rack of hanging elephants feet - destined to become fashionable western furniture items - (see picture 10528268). Date: circa 1910s

Horrible nightmare of a worthy old gentleman. Illustration showing GF Hoar having a troubled sleep due to writing on his bedroom wall, as stated at the Ohio Republicans convention in Columbus, Ohio

Harem trousers replace the hobble skirt
From fetters to freedom: the hygienic harem replaces the horrible hobble skirt. Four radical designs from New York and Paris

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

Lear / Nonsense / Cow
There was an Old Man who said, how shall I flee from that horrible cow? I will sit on this stile, and continue to smile, which may soften the heart of that cow

Lear / Nonsense / Cheadle
There was an Old Person of Cheadle, who was put in the stocks by the beadle; For stealing some pigs, some coats, and some wigs, that horrible person of Cheadle

Lear / Nonsense / Wrekin
There was an Old Man of the Wrekin, whose shoes made a horrible creaking; But they said, Tell us whether, your shoes are of leather, or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin

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