Joke Collection (page 4)

Bag with punning verse on a Christmas card
Bag with crab and punning verse on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

A saw on a Christmas card -- the basis of a fairly excruciating pun. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas and New Year telegram addressed to Sallie, with a greetings verse. 1890

St Valentines Day bank note from Lovers Banking Company
St Valentines Day bank note from the Lovers Banking Company, Temple of Hymen, promising to pay the entire love of the suppliant, signed by the Governor of the bank, Cupid. Date: circa 1860s

St Valentines Day bank note from the Bank of Love, Temple of Hymen, promising to pay the entire love of the suppliant, signed by the Governor of the bank, Cupid. 1860s

Christmas cheque from the Greeting Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, for ten thousand kind greetings. Date: circa 1900s

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Good Cheer, Pudding Lane Branch, with five thousand welcomes to Newport from Thomas Howells to Mrs Box. Date: 1888

Christmas cheque, with turkey, sausages and pudding
Christmas cheque from the United Kingdom of Great Blessings and Joyland, decorated with a turkey, sausages and pudding. Date: 1924

Cheque from the Christmas Bank of Prosperity, to Mr and Mrs Hancock from R and L Gunning. Date: 1934

Christmas cheque book greetings, from the Good Old Gold Christmas Banking Co Unlimited, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas cheque book from the Bank of Prosperity
Christmas cheque book greetings from the Bank of Prosperity, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Time for a drink, WW1
Cartoon, Time for a drink. A French soldier sits on the back of a chair with his feet on the seat to drink at a bar. The two soldiers with him tell the owner not to be shocked by his behaviour

Cartoon, Playing a practical joke, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier plays a practical joke on a colleague and sends him up a tree. Date: 1916

Cartoon, A sophisticated man, WW1
Cartoon, A sophisticated man. A French soldier about to depart on leave asks an African colleague to let him have some of his lice, so that he can show them to his friends and family in Belleville

Spoof missing notice, anti-suffrage satire -- Missing, A Young Lady. Date: circa 1910

Cut out for the job: WW1 recruitment humour
Civilian: " Most of my pals are either in the Guards or the Bantams. I m too short for the Guards, and too tall for the Bantams

WW1 - Cartoon - Army of occupation
WW1 - A cartoon illustrating two British officers joking about " getting the glad eye" from a heavy-set woman. Walking with her heavy-set husband they glare back at the officers

WW1 - Successful Zeppelin raid
WW1 - The achievement and success of a recent zeppelin raid. The zeppelin is characterised as the child, that has returned, weeping to its Father the emperor

WW1 - Cartoon - The hero of the day
WW1 - A illustration making a joke out of the the rank of a Subaltern, seen as the lowest rank in the British army during WW1

WW1 - Cartoon - Russians in England
WW1 - A cartoon illustrating Englands ignorance regarding Russia. The cartoon jokes about that the " Rooshuns", rather than Russians coming through England

Cartoon, Convalescent leave, WW1
Cartoon, Convalescent leave, showing two girls chatting to a little boy dressed as a soldier who has a bandage on his knee

The Great Water Joke by H. M. Bateman
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing horses and their jockeys finding that the other side of a water jump is substantially higher than the side from where they took off

A Scent Evanescent by Wilmot Lunt - petrol shortages, WW1
CHEMIST: " That, madame, is petrol - our dearest and rarest perfume." Cartoon in The Bystander commenting on the extortionate cost of petrol as it became increasingly scarce on the home

At the Brewery Baths by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" You chuck another sardine at me, my lad, and you ll hear from my solicitors." High jinks in a brewery on the Western Front utilised as a baths for British soldiers

Scouting Commissioners in Ghana, West Africa
Scouting Commissioners Jack Stapleton and George Djabanor sharing a joke, Ghana, West Africa. Date: 1948

Charles II knights the sirloin
Charles II knights a " Sir Loin" of beef at a feast. Date: 1600s

Boy scout with plaited hair, Cyprus. Date: 20th century

Goatskin shortages in 1915: humourous alternatives suggested
Hirsuitabilities: A humourous suggestion from Edwin Morrow in responce to the possibility of a shortage in supply of goat skins for soldiers winter overcoats. Date: 1915

The Threatened Slump in Husbands: post WW1 polgamy imagined
The Bystander takes a humourous look in 1915 at the marriage problems that may arise after the war is over. C.E Peto imagines the social consequences of polgamy becoming permissable in the wake of

Girl in fancy dress, Camborne, Cornwall
Girl in fancy dress for a carnival at Camborne, Cornwall, dressed in a matchbox costume with no more strikes written, punningly, on the side

The hoax Captain of K�ick
The sham Captain of K� ick and his triumph of genius. 1. the sham captain signing the receipt for the municipal money; 2

Ozone Terrace, intended as a healthy street name, near the sea at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Date: 1950s

There & Back again Lane
The quaint name of There and Back Again Lane, given to a cul-de-sac in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Date: 1950s

Punch Pasteur Joke
THE CANINE SCARE - the fame of Pasteur spreads to England. Date: 1886

Belly Cold - Chinese man causes linguistic confusion
Chinese man causes linguistic confusion... " Belly cold today, miss!" " Well - why don t you tuck your shirt in?" Date: circa 1940

French WW2 Propaganda postcard - Siegfried Line leaking
French WW2 Propaganda postcard showing the German Defensive Siegfried Line having been attacked and sprung a leak! The fish is wittily asking the bashed-up German soldiers

Two Racehorse Trainers share an in-joke
The Long Un - " I think I shall go an see my Osses To-Morrow." The Short Un - " Yes? Where do you keep em - Attenborough s

Countryfolk Insult
" Ow much for the Moke (Donkey) Billie? " I didn t know as yer Muvver could afford to keep two of yer!" Date: 1899

Two Actors outside a theatre comment on a Flea Circus
Two Actors outside a theatre (on observing the playbills displayed) pass comment on a Performing Flea Show. First Actor (resting) - " H m - a scratch company." Date: 1892

Comic caricature in a lunatic asylum by Phil May
Dottieville Lunatic Asylum Visitor to the Asylum - " Is that Clock Right?" The Dotty One - " O course it ain, or it wouldn t be here." Date: 1900

Cabbie advises fat fare to prevent horse spying him
Hilarious cartoon by Phil May: " I want you to take me to St. Johns Wood, Cabbie" " All right, Sir, but would you mind getting in on the other side so as the old horse don t see

Male wit - Thoughtless of Her
Thoughtlessness of Her " If you was arf the man you d offer to carry some of these bundles". " Ow can I with my ands in my pockets!" Date: 1894

Phil May having a funny chat to an actor - Off for a drink
Phil May (on the right): " By the Way, when does your American Tour come off?" Famous Actor: " Oh not for about a year"

Witty tramp and disgusted older woman - Phil May Cartoon
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a witty (if rather drunk) tramp and disgusted older woman, who refuses to provide charity

Observations at a Cockney Funeral - Phil May
One Easter Monday. Arriet (watching the funeral of Liza) - " Nice sort of Bank Oliday for er, poor dear!" Date: 1900

Humorous Pharmacy postcard
Young Boy: " Gimme three-pennorth of pills. Chemist: " Anti-bilious?" Young Boy: " No Sir - Fathers bilious!" Date: 1905

Eggcup stand with two eggs on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a battered top hat -- May you spend a jolly time under the old roof. Date: circa 1890s

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