Mistaken Collection

Flat Earth map of the world showing it to be a plane
A MAP OF THE WORLD SHOWING IT TO BE A PLANE - and those of us who suppose it to be a globe are clearly mistaken. Date: 1893

Drunk Stockbroker - confused by toilet roll
Drunk Stockbroker - confused by a toilet roll, which he takes to be the ticker tape! (which would have provided him with the latest market prices). Date: circa 1910s

St Philomena / Vie Saints
SAINT PHILOMENA who never was : her existence arose from a mistaken reading of stones found with human remains at Rome on 25 May 1802

Comic postcard, Pretty young woman and cow Date: 20th century

Georgian cartoon, Equality - Stand and Deliver! - scruffy thief threatens well dressed scarecrow Date: circa 1820s

Hammersmith Ghost Paranormal Apparitions 1804
hammersmith, ghost, paranormal, apparitions, 1804, mysterious, figure, white, terrifies, populace, vigilantes, lie, wait, shoot, dead, thomas, milwood, millwood, bricklayer, dusty, clothing, led

Comic postcard, Vicar, woman, baby and lodger Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two men in an office Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman waiting in a car - and a horse! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Drunken man with water spout Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Drunken man with pillar box Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Drunken man with pillar box Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Bald head in the sea, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

WW1 - Whales mistaken for submarines
The bodies of hundreds of whales, sharks, and other large fish, mistaken for submarines in the zealous hunt for German raiders, now lie strewn along the Atlantic coast

Comic postcard, Red nose mistaken for gas mask, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Regency gentleman riding a horse that barely lifts its feet. He loses his bicorne when the horse hits a pig while a woman screams from a thatched cottage. A Daisy Cutter with his Varieties

Apology to Greek Orthodox priest alleged to have eaten wife
An apology in The Graphic which had, in January 1928, run a story claiming that a Greek Orthodox priest had pickled and eaten his wife after she had fallen down some stairs and broken her neck

Mistaken identity - Very short man and a tall young woman " You Naughty Boy, you ll fall over!" " Oh...." Date: circa 1890s

German doll from Titanic
Philomena, a German bisque doll rescued from the sea after the sinking of the Titanic. It was at first mistaken for a childs body

A case of mistaken insanity: wrongly admitted to the asylum
A cunning lunatic dupes the staff at a mental institution into taking his irate captor into the incurables ward instead of himself. Date: 1838

Old Maid card game - Sorry, My Mistake -- a bird thinks the pigs tail is a worm. circa 1950s

Whales mistaken for u-boats during WW1
A page from The Illustrated London News, featuring two whales photographed from the air, showing how they could be mistaken for u-boats, and consequently bombed. WW1

Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors - Adriana: Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine. circa 1830

The Comedy of Errors - title page - exorcism scene. 1862

Boer War Reporters
BOER WAR : War correspondent Villiers is mistaken for a Boer and shot at by British soldiers before he can establish his identity : luckily their aim is poor Date: 1900

House of Windsor name change
The British Royal Family during World War One prudently change their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, so as not to be mistaken for Germans. Date: July 1917

A Distinguished Visitor by Will Owen
Sentry: Who goes there? His Reverence: Army chaplain Sentry: Pass, Charlie Chaplin A case of mistaken identity in an army camp

Terrors of the Terrier, Territorial Army cartoon, WW1
The Short-Sighted Matron - (to Territorial on guard at a railway station): Now, don t stand there like a stuffed image, porter! Come and label this luggage

Lady Arabellas Birthday Party -- Lady Arabella, mistaken for Betsy, is put into a cradle in the herdsmans cottage. Date: 1940

Rollinat Photo
MAURICE ROLLINAT French poet qho considered himself greater than Baudelaire. He was mistaken. Photo 1888. Date: 1846-1903

Anne Countess Worcester
ANNE RUSSELL, countess of WORCESTER wife of Henry Somerset, fifth earl of Worcester [the attribution to Lady Hunsdon is mistaken] Date: ? - 1639

Johan Lodewijk Nassau
JOHAN LODEWIJK VAN NASSAU Dutch statesman [There are several members of this family with this name, so our attribution could be mistaken...] Date: 1590 - 1653

Mistaken identity - Gentleman and Jewish woman
Mistaken identity - " Good Morning Mis Voss!" " My name is not Voss. It never Voss and it never vill be!". Date: 1900

The Fight Interrupted - by Mulready
The Fight Interrupted - a schoolmaster breaks up a playground scrap between two boys, although he has seized the wrong culprit! Reproduction of a painting by William Mulready. Date: 1816

Ridiculous Scottish Comic Postcard
A quite utterly ridiculous Scottish Comic Postcard, where a couple are hoodwinked into believing that the actions of a (not very) nearby donkey are actually the amorous advances of their partner

Rome / Arch Janus / C1760
18th century ruins of the ARCH OF JANUS built in the 4th century AD. it is sometimes mistaken for the Temple of Peace and War. Date: Circa 1760

Hippolyte Houcke
HIPPOLYTE (?) HOUCKE One of a celebrated dynasty of circus managers : we think this is Hippolyte, judging by the date, but we could be mistaken. Date: CIRCA 1990

This Night Club Evil by W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, This Night Club Evil. The sort of silly errors our Bright Young People make by keeping up their amusements after lighting up time

A German telescopic field-periscope
A photograph of a German army field-periscope captured by the French army in 1916. The device, whose telescopic tube could be extended up to twenty-five meters in height

Mistaken Identity
A group of children pursuing an old man carrying sacks and baggage through the snow, in the belief that he is Father Christmas

Santa on the Front Line
Father Christmas Somewhere in France. " Hang it all - its quite annoying enough to have to get down this blinking chimney without being mistaken for a German spy!"

Nocturnal Clouds
NOCTURNAL CLOUDS Clouds passing overhead at night, lit from below, have an appearance of solidity which can easily be mistaken for mysterious flying objects

Bewick / Stoat
(Mustels erminea) This mustelid is similar to and frequently mistaken for a weasel. It is found pretty well throughout the northern hemisphere

Mistaken for a Bird
This hunter saw a movement in the branches of a tree, and fired at what he assumed was a bird. Sadly, he was mistaken

Futuristic hunting accident
A pilot and his aeroplane are mistaken for a bird and are shot down -- an unfortunate mishap during a hunting expedition

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