Nose Collection

Boxer of Quirinal, also known as the Terme Boxer
Greek Art. Hellenistic. Boxer of Quirinal or the Terme Boxer. Bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic period (1st century B.C.). Boxer sitting at rest, with metal and leather dressings used for combat

Royal Air Force Display Poster, Hendon, showing a two-propeller plane nosediving. 1937

Bank holiday at Goodwood
A plug and spanner bank holiday at Goodwood. R. D. Poore in his 3.8 Alfa-Romeo and Leslie Johnson in the E-type 1 1/2 litre E.R.A. top the rise after St

Veiled Egyptian Woman - Cairo. Date: circa 1910s

Jurisprudence by H. M. Bateman is an humorous illustration of a Judge sitting in the courtroom balancing a feather or quill on his nose

Kay Snap - Mr Bobby the Policeman. 1930s

The carnival in the port of Spain, Trinidad, 1888. People cavort in fancy dress through the street, some playing banjos, others brandishing what looks like bladders on sticks

de Havilland DH. 112 Sea Venom F. A. W. 21 XA539
de Havilland DH.112 Sea Venom F.A.W.21 XA539, flying with the Aero Flight from RAE Bedford. First flown on 21 May 1954, delivered on 03 June 1954

Sir William C. Brooks, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR WILLIAM CUNLIFFE BROOKS, 1st Baronet (1819 - 1900) Lawyer, banker and Conservative Member of Parliament for East Cheshire. Caption: The Golden Pippen Date: 1819 - 1900

Imperial Airways Poster, Travel Luxuriously in the Worlds largest air liners, serving Europe, Africa, India and the Far East. Showing two pilots in the cockpit of a Heracles, and passengers boarding

Sopwith Camel biplane in forced landing, France, WW1
A British Sopwith Camel biplane after a forced landing in a field near Noyelles-sur-Escaut, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 8 October 1918

A Feathered Bonzo - cover of the Third Studdy Dogs Portfolio
Colour frontispiece of The Bonzo Book being the Third Studdy Dogs Portfolio featuring Bonzo, the canine creation of artist George Studdy

Portrait of a Red Setter
A very fine detailed portrait of a Red Setter dog. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The Elephants Child
THE ELEPHANTs CHILD Kiplings tale of how the elephant got his trunk. A crocodile tugs at the elephants nose, and thus he develops a trunk!

Marcus Porcius Cato, Roman statesman
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO (234-149 BC), Roman statesman, known as Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient), or Maior (the Elder)

Airship of Uranus
Airships of planet Uranus are powered by taking in air at the nose, compressing it and blasting it out at the rear. Maybe we on Earth could develop some such technology ?

Martin Heidegger
MARTIN HEIDEGGER German philosopher who influenced Sartre and the Existentialists

A Bonzo juggling act
Bonzo, the cute canine created by artist George Studdy in The Sketch magazine during the 1920s, performs a marvellous trick by balancing a plate, cutlery

Lear / Nonsense / Tring
There was an Old Person of Tring, who embellished his nose with a ring; He gazed at the moon, every evening in June, that ecstatic Old Person in Tring

Hegel / Schlesinger
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL German philosopher

James Napper Tandy
JAMES NAPPER TANDY Irish Revolutionary. Co-founder of the United Irishmen (1791) with Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell

Authentic Ploughman s
Ploughmans Lunch; farmworkers on the Wiltshire Downs enjoy their mid-day break

Diomedes. Roman sculpture after original of about 430 BC. Gl
Greek art. Diomedes. Roman sculpture after original of about 430 BC. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Diomedes. Roman sculpture after original of about 430 BC. Gl
Greek art. Diomedes. Roman sculpture after original of about 430 BC. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Girl from Mali with wonderful beads and headdress
Young Soninke Girl from Mali wearing wonderful beads and beaded headdress. The Soninke (also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli)

Ethiopian Woman - Braided Hair - Nose Ring
A beautiful Ethiopian Woman in profile, with long braided hair, jewellery and a very large nose ring. Date: circa 1910s

Teddy bear playing tennis. Date: circa 1900s

James Abram Garfield (1831-1881). American politician. 20th President of the United States (1881). Portrait (1881) by Ole Peter Hansen Balling (1823-1906). National Portrait Gallery. Washington D.C

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Princess Elizabeth meets a pony at the Richmond Horse Show
June 15th 1934 - Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022) meets a champion pony at the Richmond Horse Show (a class of entry she was apparently particularly interested in). Date: 1934

Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863). American military. Portrait (1864) by J.W. King. National Portrait Gallery. Washington D.C. United States

Two frogs with insect on a greetings card
Two frogs with an insect on a greetings card -- Happy be thy dreams. Date: circa 1890s

Martin Harvey in Scaramouche, a romantic drama in four acts by Rafael Sabatini, at the Garrick Theatre, London. Date: late 1920s

Latuka woman, South Sudan, East Central Africa
Latuka woman of the Nile valley, South Sudan (then part of the British Empire), East Central Africa. Date: 1922

Chrysler Jupiter-C sounding rocket at Cape Canaveral on 8 August 1957 prior to the third and final sub-orbital test of a re-entry nose cone

Face of a very handsome camel
The close-up face of a very handsome camel. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki - Poultry and Vegetable Salesman. Date: circa 1916

Distinctions with a Difference at Gleneagles
Illustration showing a fashionable trio at famous Scottish golf course, Gleneagles. The chap in the middle wears wide plus fours and a lurid, patterned tank top

The Doggy Bag by Bert Wilson
Colour illustration by Bert Wilson showing a 1920s flapper girl powdering her nose. Her compact has come from a small bag in the shape of her dog, which appears to have alarmed her pet cat

Ufos / Abductions
A typical incident during an abduction : the aliens insert an implant in the victims nose

Two rows of nose sections of Boeing B-29s at Boeings Wichita, Kansas Division

Seaside Weather Forecasts - Strong smelling Fish
Seaside Weather Forecasts - Very Fresh - Strong Wind Blowing Some rather strong-smelling Fish causes a group of beachgoers to be blown-away by the asault of the pungent aroma encountered!

Hutchinson Alderson, Bellman of Durham. 1827

You deserve... a smack in the nose!

Horn Buffers for Cattle, 1921
Illustration showing an invention, patented in 1921, designed to give any bull, using his horns in an aggressive fashion, a bash on the nose

Rhinoplasty / C16Th
Rhinoplasty: nose correction

Tahiti Nose Flute
A musician plerforming on the nose flute

Comic postcard, Couple riding tandem on a country lane Date: 20th century

Men of the Island Carib or Kalinago people. The wear loincloths, armlets, garters, tattoos and nose piercings. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique

Dornier Do 335 V1 CP-UA (1st prototype), showing the oil cooler intake under the nose (incorporated into the annular radiator intake in all subsequent aircraft)

Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito NF Mk. XV high-altitude fighter. This is an example of the rare NF Mk. XV with the extended wing-span wings, pressurised cockpit, 70 series Merlin engines

Brazilian Tapir - Native to thick, swampy forests of Brazil
Brazilian Tapir - Native to the thick, swampy forests of Brazil and a first cousin to the horse. Date: circa 1944

Gloster Meteor F.8 VZ473, fitted with a Meteor PR.10 nose at Stansted Fire School. (note: the nose sections of the F.8, FR.9 and PR.10 were interchangeable). Date: circa 1960

Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan 11162 (msn 440-454, CL-66C / CV-540). A CL-66C Napier Eland powered Cosmopolitan, at Burbank after disposal by RCAF without Eland engines

Vickers Viscount C-FTID-X
Vickers 757 Viscount C-FTID-X (msn 384), operated by Pratt & Whitney Canada as a flying engine test-bed. Seen fitted with a PT6A-50 turboprop engine in the nose

Convair CV-580 TIFS N21466 (msn 466), an in-flight Simulator fitted with a Boeing 707 nose. (one of two TIFS - Total In-Flight Simulator, based on the CV-580 and NC-131H) Date: circa 1990

Folland Fo-141 Gnat FR.1 GN-113
Ilmavoimat - Folland Fo-141 Gnat FR.1 GN-113, one of two photo-reconnaissance Gnats delivered to Finland fitted with three 70mm Vinten cameras in the nose, privately owned at Malmi Airport

Comic postcard, Husband after riotous night out Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with hangover sitting on bed Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sleeping man in cemetery with policeman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two men with motorcycle - rear light Date: 20th century

Indian girl with jewellery, nose ring and dagger, India, c. 1880 s
Indian girl with jewellery, nose ring and dagger, India, c.1880 s

Skegness is SO bracing - McGill parody of Hassall poster
Skegness is SO bracing - A Donald McGill parody of the famous Jolly Fisherman poster created by artist John Hassall in 1908 for the Great Northern Railway (GNR)

Norman crowns, hats and helmets
Norman crowns 188-197, Norman womans bonnet 198, Norman hats 199-201, helmet with nose protector 202, Norman flat helm 203, and Norman cylindrical helm 204

Scrap, Witch flying on a broomstick. 19th century

Maori greeting - rubbing noses Maori greeting - Te Hongi - rubbing noses
Maori greeting - rubbing noses

Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 60-0008
United States Air Force - Boeing B-52H-135-BW Stratofortress 60-0008 (msn 464373)of the 19th Bombardment Wing, with a humorous caption on the nose: - Dear Rocky, not to win is a very Bad Thing

Convair F-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507
Convair NF-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507 (msn 8-27-01) at NASA Lewis Research Center, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH. registered as NASA 607 Built April 1958

de Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito B Mk. 35
Ex Royal Air Force - de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk.35 TH988 at the de Havilland factory airfield at Hatfield in a static display

boy circus tent
A small boy peeps under a circus big top to watch the show inside. Birmingham, England Date: 1986

Tupolev ANT-42 Petlyakov Pe-8 TB-7
Tupolev Ant-42 Petlyakov PE-8 TB-7 Parked at a Scottish Airfield on 20th May 1942 with M. Molotov Soviet Commisar for Foreign Affairs to Sign a Treaty of Alliance

Profile - Bust of Pharoah Akhenaten from Amarna
Profile - Bust of Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten - from Amarna, the capital city newly established and built by Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, and abandoned shortly after his death

High Caste Brahmin woman, India. Date: circa 1890s

Dum-dum bullets used during WW1
Dum-dum bullets used during the First World War. As Dr Haydn Brown explains, the bullet breaks up or mushrooms on entering the human target, and causes maximum damage as a result. Date: October 1914

Hawker Hunter T. Mk. 53 ET-272
Hawker Hunter T.Mk.53 ET-272 (msn 41H/696747), as a gate guard for BHAC, at Biggin Hill airport on 17 June 1989. ( the two-seat nose was replace by the nose of Hunter F.6 XJ690). Date: 1989

Convair VT-29B-CO 51-5164
United States Air Force - Convair VT-29B-CO 51-5164 (MSN 295, Model 240-27), of the Air Force Flight Test Centre, with astrodomes removed and a test radome in the nose. Date: circa 1960

A Liverpool back street, Victorian period

London Life - The Bus Driver. See 13924942 for the card reverse (a fine example). Date: circa 1908

Philip Connard RA, artist
Caricature of Philip Connard RA, artist, by Philippe Ledoux Date: circa 1930

Alfred Yates, architect, President of RIBA
Caricature of Alfred Yates, architect, President of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), by Philippe Ledoux Date: circa 1930

English Electric Canberra PR. 9 WH793
English Electric Canberra PR.9 WH793 (msn EE-242), the prototype PR.9, at the SBAC Farnborough Air Show from 3-9 September 1956

Place card, clown with painted face and top hat

Place card, man with green top hat and monocle

A Nash Metropolitan nose. The Nash Metropolitan was an American make-over of the Austin A40, which was in turn imported into the UK. Date: circa 1959

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