Mystery Collection (page 2)

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WW2 - ATS Mystery
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, ATS Mystery, written by Gilbert Coverack. Date: 1943

WW2 - Home Guard Mystery
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Home Guard Mystery, written by Belton Cobb. Date: 1941

The Observed Corps Mystery
An illustrated front cover for The Observed Corps Mystery, written by Rex Hardinge, no. 733 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library. Date: circa 1940s

The Mystery Of The Bombed Hotel
An illustrated front cover for The Mystery Of The Bombed Hotel, written by Anthony Skene, no. 22 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library. Date: circa 1940s

The Mystery Of The Blitzed Tower
An illustrated front cover for The Mystery Of The Blitzed Tower, written by Anthony Parsons, no. 238 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

WW2 - The Ravensdale Mystery
A WW2 short story illustration which shows a fictional military man greeting his daughter. Date: circa 1940

Lady Catherine Gordon before King Henry VII - she had married Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower

Italy, Pompeii. Villa of the Mysteries. Ancient Roman suburban Villa. Frescoes depicting a bride initiating into a Bacchian Mysteries in preparation for marriage, 1st century AD. Date: 2014

Music cover, The Third Man film, Harry Lime Theme, based on music composed and arranged by Anton Karas Date: 1949

The House of Mystery
Aquatint etching showing a large house with many square muntin windows, it is not known why this house has a mysterious label

Scenes from mystery film, The Wrecker
Scenes from Gainsborough railway mystery film The Wrecker Date: 1929

Mabel Poulton and Gibb McLaughlin in film scene
Mabel Poulton and Gibb McLaughlin in Nettlefield Productions mystery film Date: 1929

Carlyle Blackwell and Benita Hume in The Wrecker
Carlyle Blackwell and Benita Hume in Gainsborough Pictures railway mystery film The Wrecker, directed by G Bolvary Date: 1929

Blanche Sweet in The Woman in White
Blanche Sweet and Haddon Mason in British Dominions mystery film The Woman in White, directed by Herbert Wilcox, based on the novel by Wilkie Collins Date: 1929

Music cover, The Harry Lime Theme (The Third Man)
Music cover, The Zither Melody, song version of The Harry Lime Theme (The Third Man film, 1949), words by Michael Carr and Jack Golden, based on music composed and arranged by Anton Karas. Date: 1950

The Phaistos Disc (1/2)
The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete

The Phaistos Disc (2/2)
The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete

Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungle
An unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters

Pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry Date: 16th century

LIGEIA "I would call aloud upon her name"; the narrator calls for his dead wife. Date: First published: 1838

POE/TALES/WILL WILSON
WILLIAM WILSON "In my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."

Hop Frog
HOP-FROG The miserable end of the King & his courtiers. Date: First published: 1850

Masque of the Red Death
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH The Masqueraders. Date: First published: 1842

Artist painting portrait of his wife
THE OVAL PORTRAIT The artist finishes the painting of his wife, only to discover that she has died. Date: First published: 1850

The Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle from his own short story. First produced at the Adelphi Theatre, 4 June 1910, this production at the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Mr Maskelynes New Magical Sketch, Egyptian Hall Mr Maskelynes New Magical Sketch
Mr Maskelynes New Magical Sketch, Arcana, Egyptian Hall, London. 1888

Miracle Play taking place in the street in York
Miracle Play (or Mystery Play) taking place in the street in York. 1884

Constance Marie de Masirevich, daughter of the recently retired Hungarian ambassador. The Sketch reports, " she has many friends in London and is very Anglophile

Chester Mystery Plays, performance in the street

Whiskered shrike, Lanius mystaceus. A made up bird, composed of the Lanius ferrugineus, with the belly and tail feathers of a species of Psittacus and breast

Hackled paradise bird, possibly a hybrid or extinct species. Drawn from a specimen in the collection of General Davies. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Robin flycatcher, Muscicapa rubecola. Known only from a specimen in the Paris Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William

Woman in the Mystery bonnet or the Sleeping Dog, decorated with flowers and feathers. Bonnet au Mystere ou Chien Couchant

Mystery play, Coventry, Warwickshire
Mystery play performed on a raised stage in the street, Coventry, Warwickshire, with the old cathedral in the background. Date: 1842

Poster, Les Magique Leons, Whirlwind Illusionists
Theatre poster, Les Magique Leons, Whirlwind Illusionists in the Palace of Mystery

Violet Gordon Charlesworth
A portrait of Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth(b.1884), showcasing her elaborate and expensive clothing. She became notorious for faking her own death in 1909 by allegedly being thrown from her motor

Whose Shoe? - scene at a dance, with a stray shoe in the middle of the floor. circa 1898

The Minx
Colour photograph of a woman in a masque costume. Behind her a faded figure of a Pierrot. Date: 1930

Victor Grayson - Socialist - Speaker
Book cover design: The mystery of Victor Grayson by Reg. Groves, 1908- Pendulum Publications, 1946. Date: 1946

German print - Will-o -the-Wisp. 19th century

Polish poster for a film, The Mystery of Eternal Night. 1955

The Princes in the Tower - Edward V & Duke of York
The Princes in the Tower - Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville alive at the time of their fathers death

Issoire D.7 Iris EJW Glider

Mystery high-wing monoplane (full image of the stereo pair) Date: circa 1923

Cox-Klemin CK-1
Designed by Prof. Alexander Klemin, the Cox-Klemin CK-1 amphibian was built for Mr. Casper Peter Mayer of Bridgeville, Pa. but never delivered and believed not to have flown

Mystery flying boat Mayer
Mystery flying boat - Mayer. Date: circa 1920s

Mystery aircraft Date: circa 1915

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