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Music cover, The Clock is Playing, A Musical Novelty for Piano, by Pierre Blaauw. circa 1920
Advert for Alexander Clark novelty jewellery 1901Edwardian novelty jewellery, aromatic scented lucky pigs and spheres containing a woollen pad saturated with a fragrance, leaving a beautiful odour, comes in gold
The Spring Chicken by George GrossmithNovelty promotional postcard for The Spring Chicken by George Grossmith, from Coquin de Printemps by Adolphe Jaime & George Dunval (Folies Dramatiques, Paris)
So This Is London by Arthur GoodrichNovelty promotional postcard for So This Is London by Arthur Goodrich (Hudson Theatre, New York, 30th August 1922). First produced Prince of Wales Theatre
Harry Mason and Lily Bart - Novelty Comedy Gymnasts of Brixton, London. " Ah! But What Gymnasts!" It looks conceivable as if Harry Mason is here taking on the persona of King George V
Advert for Faulkner diamond jewellery 1892Selection of jewellery available from Faulkner, Regent Street. 1892
What The Butler Saw by E F Parry and Frederick MouillotReverse of a novelty promotional postcard for What The Butler Saw by E. F. Parry and Frederick Mouillot. First produced at Wyndhams 2nd August 1905
1950s sunglassesA trio of novelty sunglasses from Marshall and Snelgrove, 1956. Date: 1956
Street in Chinatown, New York City, USA, with shops and restaurants. Date: circa 1940
How to do the Gorilla Dance (1927)How to do the novelty Gorilla dance by Vestoff and Miss Bennett Date: 1927
The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement for Electric CookersThe Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement promoting the benefits of an Electric Cooker. Date: 1920s
The Empire Cookery Book - Front CoverThe Empire Cookery Book - complied by Marguerite Fedden - Front Cover. Date: 1920s
The Empire Cookery Book - Title Page Date: 1920s
Buildings in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Date: circa 1940
Bass & Co Brewery Novelty Card, Reading, BerkshireBass & Co Brewery Novelty Card, Reading, near Caversham, Berkshire, England. With Pull-out of 12 Pictures of Reading & Caversham Date: 1923
Cat Novelty Picture, Halifax Football Club, Yorkshire, England. On the Ball Halifax - Play Up Date: 1910s
Washington Club Band, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USAWashington Club Novelty Band, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA, with people in fancy dress holding musical instruments. Date: circa 1906
Cologne, the Dom Hotel which is still going today. Boys watch the novelty of a camerman as carriages wait outside at the prestigious hotel. Date: circa 1907
Cromford - a group of children in the road showing everyday clothing of 1906, and also illustrating the novelty of cameras at the time. Date: 1906
Suffragette Novelty Toy Jumping SuffragetteA novelty toy, entitled, The Jumping Suffragette or, How the Suffragette Lost Her Head. Consists of a plastic doll, dressed in the colours and a Votes for Women sash, carrying an umbrella
Letting loose balloons from the Eiffel TowerA small girl in the arms of her father, lets loose a small balloon with a postcard attached from the third platform of the newly completed Eiffel Tower
The Kilt in Italy by WW1A Highland officer wearing his kilt attracts much attention as he walks down the main street of a little town in Italy during the First World War
Merry-Go-Round, Copley Plaza, Boston, Mass, USAMerry-Go-Round bar, Copley Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1930s
Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths jewellery 1905Selection of Edwardian novelty jewellery for Christmas. 1905
WW1 novelty lighter in the shape of a book. Engraved TB and dated 1916-1918. Trench Art. Date: circa 1918
Horace Shaw Tank Bank modelled on WWI tankA novelty Horace Shaw Tank Bank modelled on a 1st World War tank. Trench Art
Patterned stockings including patriotic flags, WW1 fashionTwo pairs of stockings with the embellishment fashionable during the First World War on the left, a pair featuring squirrels on the ankles from Peter Robinson an don the right
Match box with wind screen, World War OneA combined silver match box and wind screen, a novelty but nevertheless extremely useful to men at the front and available from Charles Packer and Co of Regent Street, London
The Garden Grill at the May Fair HotelThe Garden Grill Room restaurant at the newly opened May Fair Hotel in Stratton Street, Mayfair, London, which had the novel illusion that, no matter what the time of day
Street scene with novelty carStreet scene with a novelty car-windmill, passing an Odeon cinema. Date: 20th century
The spread of the tango: the arrest of a militant suffragetteComment on the tango craze: a militant, flag-waving suffragette is surprised to find herself apprehended and in the embrace of a tango-ing policeman. Date: 1913
Miniature Golf at the Kit-CatAn attractive addition to the pleasures of dining at the Kit-Cat Restaurant in Haymarket, central London; an entertaining nine-hole golf course in miniature, laid out in the Bray Room
Advert for Robert Heath, sporting bird brooches 1929Model wearing a beret in face cloth or velvet with bird brooch. Date: 1929
The Latest Novelty in Flying MachinesOne of the machines attached to the mammoth merry-go-round invented by Sir Hiram Maxim, shaped like a rather terrifying fish. Date: 1904
Advert for Parisian Diamond Company 1912Selection of decorative elegant diamond jewellery. 1912
Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths jewellery 1893Novelty jewellery for Christmas gifts. 1893
Advert for Asprey gold charms 1938Asprey of Bond Street, a colllection of bracelet charms, gold and topaz bracelet and gold and diamond clips. 1938
Ascent of M. Delemarne in L EsperancePoster advertising the ascent of M. Delemarne The Aerial Vessel Sailing Balloon! " L Esperance", Cremorne Gardens, August 7th 1865 Date: 1865
The Royal Likeness - 3 / 3 - Queen VictoriaThe Royal Likeness - 3/3 - Queen Victoria (1819-1901) - a remarkable fold-out card, which opened from an initial portrait of King George V to then show King Edward VII
The Royal Likeness - 2 / 3 - King Edward VIIThe Royal Likeness - 2/3 - King Edward VII (1841-1910) - a remarkable fold-out card, which opened from an initial portrait of King George V to show Edward (here) and then finally Queen Victoria
The Royal Likeness - 1 / 3 - King George VThe Royal Likeness - 1/3 - King George V (1865-1936) - a remarkable fold-out card, which opens to revel King Edward VII and then Queen Victoria. Date: circa 1910s
Miniature French Horse Omnibus - Royaume de LilliputMiniature French Horse Omnibus, pulled by two small ponies - Royaume de Lilliput, Paris, France (a Circus-Related Midget Dwarf Troupe). Date: 1910s
Two Actors outside a theatre comment on a Flea CircusTwo Actors outside a theatre (on observing the playbills displayed) pass comment on a Performing Flea Show. First Actor (resting) - " H m - a scratch company." Date: 1892
Carved Ivory Figure - Travancore State Court - British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, 1924. Date: 1924
Rocket, Novelty and Sans Pareil steam locomotives
The novelty of the cabaret meal has worn off; it is time other things had a cabaret accompaniment. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon where Cabaret Accompaniment is introduced into various social
Gala puppet circus Clowns, cowboys, acrobats, animals, and novelty acts. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of a puppet circus, showing head of a clown. Date between 1936 and 1941
Royal Lilliputians, the only novelty in sight nothing but fun. Date c1900