Match Collection (page 11)

Royal Shrovetide Football Game, Ashbourne, Derbyshire

Match with comic verse on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Cigarette and match with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a box of matches, With Kindest Greetings and all Good Wishes for your Happiness and Prosperity. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, cricketing lion and kangaroo
Cartoon, cricketing British Lion and Australian Kangaroo. The lion says: Well, you don t mind a good licking, so long as you get the gate money, do you? 1884

Tennis in Johannesburg
The Wimbledon of Johannesburg - a crowd of spectators watching a match on a hard court in South Africa. Date: 1929

The Ancient English Musket & Halbert Exercise, Plate 3. 1794

Pierce Egans Anecdotes: bull-baiting by dogs
Colour plate The Grand Duke Nicholas witnessing a let-go match by the dogs for a silver collar by Olivers Game Bull at Combe Warren

Old Japanese Matchbox label with two women and Chinese coins made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a deer made in Yamada, Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with two birds made in Osaka, Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a boy and two dogs made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with an elephant chasing a deer made by Takashima in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a man fighting a tiger made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

The Vulcan old Japanese Matchbox label made in Kobe by NKMSK for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Swedish Matchbox label with Robber and a tiger hunting possibly for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Greek art. Krater of Thebes. 7th century BC. Geometric perio
Greek art. Boeotian Late Geometric pedestalled krater with boxing match. From Thebes, c. 690-670 BCE. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Woman police officer in uniform, London
Woman police officer in woollen V-neck jumper and trousers, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Woman police officer in coat and bowler hat, London
Woman police officer in a coat from the mix and match uniform introduced in 1977, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Boxing match which lasted a record 75 rounds, between John L Sullivan (1858-1918), nicknamed the Boston Strongboy, and Jake Kilrain (1859-1937)

Bob Fitzsimmons v Bob Armstrong in boxing match
Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917), British boxer, v Bob Armstrong (1873-1933), American boxer, in a boxing match. Date: circa 1900s

Two women golfers on a golf course
Two women golfers strolling across a golf course. Date: 1930s

Sheffield Wednesday playing, Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield
Sheffield Wednesday football team playing at match at Owlerton Stadium (later renamed Hillsborough), Sheffield, Yorkshire. Date: circa 1904

RAF Abu Sueir football match, near Ismailia, Egypt
View from behind the goal during an RAF Abu Sueir football match, near Ismailia, Egypt, 18 January 1925. The teams were No. 4 Flying Training School and the 15/19 Kings Royal Hussars

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

Cricket match at the cricket-ground at Castle Howard
The royal party visits a cricket match which was being held at Castle Howard, also lots of spectators gather round to watch the match. Date: 1850

Regimental goat, mascot of the Welsh Regiment, WW1
The billy goat, the pet mascot of the Welsh Regiment pictured at a football match in September 1914. He is wearing a tunic bearing one of the emblems of the regiment, the Prince of Wales plumes

Judi Spiers, radio and TV presenter
Judi Spiers (b. 1953), radio and TV presenter, seen here taking part in a cricket match. circa 1980s

King George V & Prince of Wales at Lords cricket ground
King George V and Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor), pictured at Lords cricket ground where its centenary was being celebrated in June 1914

War tennis tournament at Queens Club, 1916
A page from The Tatler reporting with photographs on a tennis tournament held in aid of the Star and Garter Home Fund for Disabled Soldiers, which took place on the 15 July 1916

Wrestling on horseback, Indian troops at Salonika, WW1
A wrestling match while riding mules - Indian troops at a Sports meeting held at Salonika during the First World War. Date: 1916

The Debutante by H. M. Bateman (Tennis at Wimbledon)
Humorous illustration by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman showing a new tennis player on the famous centre court at Wimbledon, feeling very much as if all eyes are upon her. Date: 1926

Test Match by David Wright - original gouache
Test Match by David Wright, featuring a seductive blonde wearing a pink strapless dress and a black picture hat. Date: 1946

Cartoon, body parts after the battle, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled After the Battle, showing German soldiers trying to match up body parts before loading them onto a train. Date: 1914-1918

The Avenue tennis racket advertising showcard, 1890
An exquisite advertising show card from around 1890 for The Avenue tennis racquet manufactured by Clapshaw and Cleave of Birmingham, Bradford and Brighton

FA Cup Final 1901
The Football Association cup final tie at Crystal Palace, 20th April 1901. Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield United pictured at the kick off, along with reportage from The Illustrated London News

Couple pose by cupid statue
A happy couple stand in front of a young child dressed as cupid, whos powers of matchmaking seem to have worked a treat. Date: c.1910

The Summer Game by Rene Vincent
Summery illustration showing two fashionable 1920s ladies, one holding a glorious floral parasol as they watch a tennis match at a private club or house. Date: 1927

1903 FA Cup Final: Derby County beats Bury 6-0
The Football Association Cup Final at the Crystal Palace, where Bury beat Derby County by six goals to nil in the presence of over 63, 000 spectators

Sam and Carter Livesey - The Village Blacksmith
Sam Livesey (18731936) a British film and stage actor and his brother Carter (or Joseph) Livesey (rear). Here the brothers perform in their joint touring production of The Village Blacksmith

Royal Wedding 1923 - Through Wisdoms Eyes
Interesting montage picture from The Bystander Royal Wedding Number of 1923 featuring the Duke of York, and his chosen bride, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in the eyes of an owl

DI Jill McTeague, Arts & Antiques Squad, with necklace
DI Jill McTeague of the Arts & Antiques Squad of the Metropolitan Police, holding a stolen necklace which has been recovered

Egypt - Bisharin warrior, Aswan
A Bisharin Tribesman of Aswan, Egypt with his shield, spear and small Egyptain lyre. Date: circa 1910s

Admiral Sir Ernest Gaunt watching boxing match
Admiral Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt (1865-1940), Royal Naval officer, seen here with others watching a 4th Battle Squadron boxing match on board a ship (possibly HMS Benbow). Date: circa 1917

Queen Elizabeth II - royal tour of India
Queen Elizabeth II at a polo match with President Dr Rajendra Prasad in New Delhi during the royal tour of India in 1961. Date: 1961

Poster, Think of Tomorrow, Buy War Bonds Today. Showing two soldiers looking at a photograph of a woman and child. 1940s

Gentlemen v Players, 200th Cricket Eleven
Photographs of the eleven Players in the 200th Gentlemen and Players cricket match. The match was played on an annual basis, the tradition having started in 1806

Kathleen McKane and Suzanne Lenglen, tennis players
Scenes from a Wimbledon tennis match between the top players, Miss Kathleen McKane and Mlle Suzanne Lenglen, representing England and France respectively

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