Odd Collection (page 5)

Fantastic Adventures - The Octopus of Space
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1949, featuring the story The Octopus of Space by Alexander Blade. A man watches another man in a wet suite fighting a huge octopus out of the round window of a

Fantastic Adventures - King of the Dinsaurs
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1945, featuring the story King of the Dinsaurs by J. W. Pelkie. A warrior on a huge dangers looking dinosaur wields his axe against an attacking enemy

Fantastic Adventures - Spawn of the Glacier
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1943, featuring the story Spawn of the Glacier by Leroy Yerxa. A couple stares at four little green suited fairies who climed out of black floating bubbles

Dollie Goo Goo watched a bumble bee
European kitsch take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo watched a bumble bee whilst her puppy dog chews on a toy Date: circa 1910s

Dollie Goo Goo surpised by a duckling
European take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo is surpised by a duckling Date: circa 1910s

Tatton Sykes
SIR TATTON SYKES (1826 - 1913), Eccentric landowner 1879

Slum Children / Hoxton
Slum children from Hoxton, London, sitting at the side of the road playing cards with cigarette cards and the odd playing card Date: early 20th century

John Bigg, Hermit 17C
JOHN BIGG had been a lawyers clerk during the Commonwealth, but when the monarchy was restored he became morose and adopted a solitary life Date: 1629 - 1696

Cycling on ice skates
cycling on skates (or skating on a bicycle) Date: 1870

Dog, stork on nest and moonlight scene on a Christmas card
A little dog, a stork on its nest on a roof, and a moonlight scene with water on a Christmas card -- all part of a trompe l oeil assembly of three pictures pinned to a wooden board. Date: circa 1890s

A mysterious Fall of Frogs Date: 19th century

Uncle Lubin, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Uncle Lubins Holiday, illustration by William Heath Robinson (1940s, unfinished) -- It was a tumbledown kind of place. Uncle Lubin decides that he needs a haircut before his family holiday

Acanthostracion quadricornis, or Four-Horned Trunkfish. Date: 1865

A flowering plant (unidentified) on a river Danum bank (Fabaceae). in river Danum conservation area, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

Cottongrass sp. - a very typical plant in marshes of tundra (Eriophorum sp.). near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Cottongrass sp. a very typical plant in marshes of tundra near Dikson (Eriophorum sp.). Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Pigs playing with a wheelbarrow
Three pigs play at chariots using a wheelbarrow, with the greeting A merry Christmas to you. Date: C.1890

Unusual pigs Christmas greeting
Pigs trotting after one another with a Christmas greeting - Jolly May Your Christmas Be. Date: C.1890

Swan day in Henley-on-Thames
Before the annual Royal Regatta the resident swans are cleared form the river to avoid accidents and injuries. They used to be collected in boats prior to a move. Date: early 1900s

Cartoon, The Cult of Queer Pets, showing people in the street, taking their various odd pets for a walk. A lady had recently been seen in Bond Street, London, with a small pig on a lead. Date: 1914

Girl with teddy bear
A girl sitting in a folding chair with a large teddy bear on her lap. She is looking at the bear rather quizzically

PONY CLUB
A Pony Club of mostly girls and the odd boy, on a days trek in South Wales. Date: 1950s

William Huntington - 2
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON coalheaver who climbed the social ladder to become a methodist preacher. (With some very odd ornamentation, doubtless allegorical.) Date: 1745 - 1813

Mobile Department Store in Cuba
A mobile One-man Department Store arrives on a housewifes doorstep - Havana, Cuba. Date: 1910s

Paul Biston the 1st - The King of Boot-blacks
A very odd postcard depicting Paul Biston the 1st - The King of Boot-blacks in highly regal pose ! Date: circa 1905

Japan - Geisha Girl with elaborately pinned hair. Date: circa 1903

Oddfellows Hall, Union Lodge No. 1, Denver, Colorado, USA
Oddfellows Hall, Union Lodge No.1, Denver, Colorado, USA. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a global altruistic

British Gymnastics Display with announcer & seated audience
Unintentionally hilarious photographic postcard of a British Gymnastics Display with announce/trainer (armed with a megaphone) and a very reserved seated audience

Zulu children arriving out of giant eggs
A very surreal and slightly disturbing postcard showing Fresh arrivals - a group of young Zulu toddlers emerging fully-formed out of giant eggs! Date: circa 1903

Hong Kong - China - Street Coolies. The first and last are clad in straw raincoats while the one in the centre is carrying provisions purchased from the market. circa 1910s

Tunisia - Jewish Community - Prayers in the Cemetery, Tunis. The devotees are almost totally encased within their tent-like robes. Date: circa 1903

Catch of Giant Pike near Port Washington, Ohio, USA
Catch of (quite unbelievable!) Giant Pike near Port Washington, Ohio, USA Date: circa 1916

Woman - the conundrum of the age - We can t guess her, but we ll never give her up! Date: circa 1910s

Unusual woman playing a small stringed instrument
Slightly unusual postcard showing a woman with long dark flowing locks strumming away at a small lute. A slightly deranged gaze to boot... Date: 1907

Exposition Nancy 1909 - Accumulators Lorraine ore hoppers with hatches. Date: circa 1911

Gutacher costume - South West Germany
Gutacher costume - Gutach region in south western Germany - close to the border with France. Two Sisters with their (slightly distrubingly) similar offspring. Date: circa 1910s

Fold-out Christmas Card printed on some form of synthetic vellum - featuring depictions of exotic black children from a fantasy land in the sun. Date: 1933

Taking home a little Pisa, Italy
A giant carries away the principal sights of Pisa, Italy, including the Leaning Tower, the Baptistry and the Duomo. Date: 1900

Swiss National Costume - Fribourg. The nature, intention of the large medallion bearing the letter M is unclear... Date: circa 1904

Fun Seaside Transport - Bubble Boating. This postcard was presented as an award for correct dictation in 1931! Date: late 1920s

A view of ڳtad Labem, Czech Republic A view of ڳt�ad Labem, Czech
Usti nad Labem (German: Aussig) - a city in the Czech Republic. The significance of the male Mary Poppins is slightly less clear, but rather wonderful! Date: 1904

Mount Hood Skiway - leaving the Upper Terminal - an aerial tramway which connected Government Camp and Timberline Lodge from 1951-1956 - Oregon, USA. It closed due to financial difficulties

A rather unpopular sporting character - late Victorian era - known a Poison Date: 1896

The Horn blower at the Cathedral of Dole, France
The Horn blower at the Cathedral of Dole in the Jura department in the Franche-Comte region in eastern France. Date: circa 1910s

Worm Farm - Japan - Straw Layers in which the worms are kept. Date: circa 1910s

New York to San Francisco route - Unusual Locomotive. These were actually fairly common locos for their time period; many North American railroads owned one specifically for the purpose of showing

I really like Veals head
A little girl expresses her like for this particular French culinary delicacy - Veals head! Date: 1905

Very surreal French pair below a hanging lantern
Very surreal French pair below a weird-floating hanging lantern. He appears to be an aesthete and writer, decadently draped in his velvet-upholstered chair

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