Lion Collection (#26)

Chocolate box design, village street scene
Chocolate box design, featuring a village street scene with old buildings. Date: 20th century

London street with King George VI display
A narrow London street with a display marking the accession of King George VI. Date: circa 1936

Aesops Fables
This picture depicts small snapshots of some of Aesops most famous fables like the hare and the tortoise and the fox and the grapes

Olympia Museum artefact
In the museum at Olympia, Greece, Dr Bartels, the German archaeologist, shows Princess Irene of the Hellenes a large bronze lions head Date: July 1964

Fruit Label -- Spanish oranges
Fruit Label -- oranges imported from Burriana (Borriana), Spain, by Elias Sanahuja Sanz. Depicting a lion with a red and yellow flag. Date: 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- baby and drummer, lion
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a royal baby in a cradle is entertained by a drummer. Below -- an old lion lies on the ground. Date: early 20th century

Charing Cross
Northumberland House as it stood in the late 18th century, surmounted with the lion of the Percy family : despite protests it will be demolished in 1874. Date: 1790

Front cover from the Bystander - Jubilee Number
Decorative front cover of The Bystander for the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary. Date: 1935

Ending the Truce
When the 12-year truce ends, the Dutch lion is aoproached by Petrus Peccius, chancellor of Brabant, offering olive branch or sword, watched by pope and king of Spain. Date: 1621

Satire on Oppression
A Dutch satire on Spanish oppression : Margaret of Parma and the duke of Alva turn the screw on the Dutch lion, with the approval of the pope and the king of Spain. Date: circa 1567

Lion Monkey
A lion monkey on a tangerine. Date: early 1930s

Thomas Lynedoch - 3
THOMAS GRAHAM, baron LYNEDOCH British military commander, with a fierce lion... Date: 1748 - 1843

Toy Lion & Elephant
A toy elephant and lion, mascots, made from wire and wool, confronting one another. Date: early 1930s

Supermarine Sea Lion II, G-EBAH, won the 1922 Schneider ?
Supermarine Sea Lion II, G-EBAH, won the 1922 Schneider Trophy race in Naples

Bridgetown & Gun Hill Signal Station, Barbados, West Indies
Broad Street, the Marine Hotel and Fiarchild Street with part of Carlisle Bay, Bridgetown & Gun Hill Signal Station, Barbados, West Indies. Date: circa 1901

South Africa - Panoramic View over Cape Town Date: circa 1901

Joseph Chamberlain as a Lion Tamer, taming his various opponents and enemies, named as the Radicals, the opposition Press and the Boer African Lion (bearing a suspicious likeness to Paul Kruger)

Sir John Eldon Gorst sends 8th Duke of Devonshire into well
The Story of the Duke and the Bunnygorst (cont.). Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) as a rather lazy layabout

The Neglected Lion. The British Lion as Struwwelpeter, neglected by his politicians who " tinker up the laws and never manicure his claws." ! Date: 1899

The Summer Palace, Beijing, China - Wooden Gate - stone lion
The Summer Palace, Beijing, China - a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces, mainly dominated by Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. Wooden Paifang Gate and stone lion on a plinth

China, Jilin City - Delegation of Justice Date: circa 1910

Firework Display for the Shah of Persia - 1902
Firework Display for the Shah of Persia at Crystal Palace, 24th August 1902. There were 70, 000 spectators! Date: 1902

Lion Rock, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Trafalgar Square, London - At Night - The misty form of The Church of St Martin in the Fields can be seen past the silhouettes of one of the four bronze lions, on granite plinths

Australian postcard celebrating Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. The Frown the Foeman Fears : " From Marlborough to Wellington Or in a previous day We ve had but few - and very few - to rival K

Tierpark Hagenbeck - Cross-bred Lion-Tigers
Carl Hagenbeck (1844-1913) founded Germanys most successful privately owned zoo, the Tierpark Hagenbeck which moved to its present location in Hamburg-Stellingen in 1907

Comic Postcard - Missing out on a drink
Guide: " We are now passing the Oldest Pub in England" (Chorus): " What For?" !! Comic Postcard - A Charabanc Tour Guide proves unpopular with his party as they pass by the Oldest

Nightime in Tralgar Square, London
The Offices of the Sun Life Insurance Company and The Head European Offices of Canadian Pacific, 62-65 Charing Cross Road, Trafalgar Square, London - photographed at night. Date: circa 1930s

Nursery Tale - Fighting for the Crown - Lion and the Unicorn Date: 1880

Eskimo in his Kayak - Covered in sealion skin - Alaska, USA Date: circa 1909

Anywhere to escape from the wife
Wife (to Lion Tamer who has been out late) - " You Coward!" Date: 1892

Male Kenyan Lion Date: 1940s

Painting by Paul Meyerheim of a fine lion. Date: circa 1905

Trafalgar Square at night - London, England Date: 1909

Czechoslovakias independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
Postcard commemorating Czechoslovakias declaration of independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire following WWI in 1918. The birth of the new nation. Date: 1918

Othellos Tower - Famagusta, Cyprus
Othellos Tower - Famagusta, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Edward, Prince of Wales - Calshot - Schneider Trophy
Edward, Prince of Wales (future King Edward VIII) (1894-1972) - with British Pilots at Calshot. The September 1929 Schneider Trophy contest at Calshot was won by H R D Waghorn

Loving Memory of the German Sausage - Kaiser Wilhelm II Date: circa 1919

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - Gardo House, Eagle Gate and the Lion and Bee Hive Houses Date: circa 1901

La Journee du Pas-de-Calais Charity card - WWI
A postcard relating to a charity drive in the Pas de Calais region in France, calling on to the generosity of the public. Repeated several times in about 700 communes in the department during World

Trafalgar Square Lion at Night - The Night Watch Date: 1924

Guardian Lion - Britannia Bridge, Menai Straits (designed by Robert Stephenson). The four large lions were sculpted in limestone by John Thomas. Date: circa 1910s

Birds on a drum-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Mark the Evangelist and the lion
Mark the Evangelist, writing his Gospel pictured with a winged lion, which was to become not only his symbol, but the symbol of the City of Venice. circa 18th century

St Mark writing watched by a lion. The Winged Lion of St. Mark is the symbol of the City of Venice. circa late 18th century

Man of God killed by lion
A Man of God killed by a lion. circa early 19th century

Supermarine Sea Lion III

Napier Lion VIIa direct-drive racing engine. 1927 Schneider Trophy Race. Front port quarter. Date: 1927

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