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

Veiled Egyptian Woman - Cairo. Date: circa 1910s

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

Kay Snap - Mr Bobby the Policeman. 1930s

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Hegel / Schlesinger
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL German philosopher

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thessaloniki - Poultry and Vegetable Salesman. Date: circa 1916

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

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

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

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

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