Novelty Collection (page 2)

Christmas present - Monkey Jug 1893
Monkey Jug, to put on your Christmas list! In finest crystal glass with chased hall marked silver mounts. Date: 1893

Christmas present - Dragon, smoking set 1922
The Dragon, original galalithe smoking set, made in various attractive colours. 1925

Christmas present - gong and matchholder 1927
Everybodies must have! Unusual looking duck gong and matcherholder insect, available from Marshall and Snelgrove s. 1927

Christmas present - Dutch doll sugar tongs 1922
Novelty sterling silver Dutch doll sugar tongs with enamelled face, available by Vickery of Regent Street. 1922

Unusual Mirror Image portrait postcard
Austria - an unusual Mirror Image portrait postcard - combining two different angle shots taken at the same moment, combined into one image. Date: 1910

Advert for Novelty Stoves Co. 1899
Aluminum and nickel finish oil stove, with no smoke or odour. Date: 1899

Tango Demonstration
A professional couple, Clayton and Marquis, demonstrate the tango - still an exotic novelty - to supper guests at the Savoy Hotel, London. Date: 1914

Advert for Hancock & Co. novelty jewellery 1890 Advert for Hancock & Co
Novelty jewellery for Christmas. Date: 1890

Cat telephone cosy from Selfridges, 1919
Ideas for Christmas gifts from Selfridges. This quaint conceit is a telephone cosy in the shape of a cat. Everyone needs one of these in their life. Date: 1919

Cavern Cafe, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
Scene inside the Cavern Cafe, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico Date: 1928

Suffragette Toy Votes for Women Novelty. A novel electric buttonhole, comprising womens head and Votes for Women slogan in her mouth. Offered by Moorhouse Ltd

Tank handbag advertisement, WW1
A novelty hand bag in the shape of a tank, available from Mark Cross Ltd of Regent Street in 1918. 1918

Advert for J. C Vickery personalised jewellery 1912
Personalised disc shape pendants arranged with any border in diamonds, pearls or gold with a letter in the centre and a interchangable enamel backpiece. 1912

Advert for James Aitchison brooches 1883
James Aitchison, manufacturer of National Scottish Jewellery. From birds shot in the Highlands of Scotland, mounted as brooches in gold and silver, and set with Scotch Cairngorms stones. 1883

Music cover, The Wedding of the Painted Doll, a piano novelty by Nacio Herb Brown. 1929

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Edwardian jewellery
Selection of novelty jewellery inspired my nature. Date: 1901

Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers 1893
An assortment of elegant and inexpensive novelty Victorian jewellery. Special old gold and silver and precious stones taken in exchange or bought for cash

Dachshund with a movable tail on a novelty postcard. Date: circa 1890s

15-carat soild gold sporting brooches 1929
A selection of soild gold sporting brooches, products for Harrods catalogue jewellery department. Date: 1929

Advert for Wilson & Gill jewellery 1894
Selection of novelty jewellery from Wilson & Gill, in Regent Street, London. 1894

Advert for Elkington & Co Edwardian jewellery 1906
Array of novelty jewellery using pearls. Date: 1906

Exit tango: satire on the end of a dance craze, 1914
Satirical comment from Punch Magazine on the end of the tango craze. A couple dance off, while a some what more conservatively dressed spirit of dancing gladly wakes up from the "

Partial Ascent of the New Steam Captive Balloon
Poster advertising the Partial Ascent of the New Steam Captive Balloon, Ashburnham Park, Kings Road, Chelsea, September 7th 1868 Date: 1868

Houndsditch, London - Novelty Shops
Houndsditch, London - The Centre of the Novelties Trade. Looking toward the Parish and Ward Church of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate Date: circa 1908

Tango tea, London, 1913
A Parisian fashion come to London: the tango tea at Princes restaurant, 1913. Date: 1913

G Sparagnapane Novelty Christmas crackers
Page from a catalogue advertising the various ingenious novelty Christmas cracker boxes available from G Sparagnapane and Co in the form of a piano, cottage, tram, submarine, train and fire engine

Bank of Fashion novelty bank note, advertising hair cutting and dressing. 1823

Fashionable jewels 1933
Model wearing ornamental jewellery with time watch which fastens on top of the womens clothing by Ciro. 1933

Advert for Bensons jewellery 1893
Novelty victorian jewellery for Christmas, with a secret or puzzle padlock, that you can ordered with personal letters to your bracelet. 1893

Max Dearly with bathing costume winners, French Riviera
Famous French actor Max Dearly, together with his wife, pictured judging a bathing costume competition at Cap d Antibes in 1928. Date: 1928

The Great Wheel and the Eiffel Tower - Paris, France
The Great Wheel and the Eiffel Tower - la rue Suffren - Paris, France - erected as part of the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Date: circa 1905

Music cover, Lonesome Little Doll, a novelty for piano by Phil Boutelje. 1929

British Caribbean woman points to an item, novelty shop, Hon
British Caribbean woman pointing to an item in a basket novelty shop in Hong Kong. Shop is filled with cane furniture and basket woven novelty items, lampshades, plant hanging baskets

Lorna Holder photographing the front of a Egyptian novelty shop, with large brass, cooper clay, pots and bowls. Date: 1978

Advert for Elkington & Co Edwardian jewellery 1901
Selection of Edwardian brooches and charms using animal designs. 1901

Advert for John Bennett jewellers, novelty jewellery 1901
Variety of Christmas gifts for the Edwardian lady; novelty brooches with mother of pearl, rubies, turquoises, sapphires, amethyst. 1901

Advert for Faulkner diamond jewellery 1901
A selection of novelty Edwardian diamond brooches, pearl necklace, earrings for non-pierced ears, and also a personalised name brooch to order. 1901

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths jewellery 1901
Selection of Edwardian novelty jewellery for Christmas gifts. 1901

Advert for Henry Lewis & Co novelty sporting jewellery 1893
A selection of hunting jewellery, available from Henry Lewis & Co in New Bond Street, London. 1893

Advert for Faulkner diamond brooches 1896
A selection of novelty Victorian diamond brooches, rings, side combs, and also a personalised name brooch to order. 1896

Advert for Faulkner diamond brooches 1893
A selection of novelty Victorian diamond brooches. 1893

Advert for Coronation jewellery 1902
Advertisement for the snappily named The Association of Diamond Merchants Jewellers & Silversmiths of Trafalgar Square, London featuring a number of different novelty Coronation-themed pieces of

Ethel Smyth Composer and Suffragette
An early portrait photograph of Ethel Smyth taken in New York when she attended the first U.S performance of her opera, Der Wald at the Metropolitan Opera House

Rickshaw driver, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
Rickshaw driver in ornate costume, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1940

Advert for J. W Benson novelty jewellery 1888
Seletion of novelty jewellery, with floral and symmetric design for brooches, pendants and bracelets, available for J. W Benson, jewellers in Old Bond, Street, London. 1888

Advert for Parisian Diamond Company 1896
Christmas gift for women including diamond flexiable bracelet, novelty brooches, pearl pendant, buckles and hair combs. 1896

Advert for Kelsey and Scott, Artistic Carnival Novelties, 1921. Everything for fancy dress, balls and carnivals Date: 1921

Advert for Wilson & Gill jewellery 1896
Selection of jewellery from Wilson & Gill, in Regent Street, London, including a link chain locket with key bracelet, a chain with a pencil attached, diamond brooches in cresent shape

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