Pair Collection (page 17)

Christmas card, A Winter's Tale
Christmas card by Robert Dudley, A Winter's Tale (two robins walking through the snow). (8 of 9) Date: circa 1890s

Clothes prop with comic verse on a Christmas card
Clothes prop with washing line and socks, with comic verse on a Christmas card -- including a Leap Year proposal in advance of the following year. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of feet with comic verse on a Christmas card
Pair of feet with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of scissors with comic verse on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of scissors with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of dice with comic verse on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Pair of bellows with comic verse on a Christmas card
Pair of bellows with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pair of slippers with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Odd pair of gloves with comic greeting on a Christmas card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Pair of dice with comic verse on a Christmas card
Pair of dice with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl in a car on a romantic greetings card. circa 1900s

Cat investigating boots on a Victorian scrap
Cat investigating a pair of boots on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Entertainment of two boxing Boys - Ezbekieh Gardens, Cairo
Entertainment of two boxing Boys (Owen and Dade) at the Ezbekieh (Esbekieh, Ezbekiya, Azbakeya or Azbakia) Gardens, Cairo, Egypt. The MC is Sergeant Chase and the photographer was K. Bolam

Fish Sellers - Cairo, Egypt. The taller gentleman on the left (holding the scales) appears to be blind. Date: circa 1910s

Three Russian peasant women and their horse-drawn wagon. Date: circa 1902

Two Spanish women on a balcony - Cadiz, Southern Spain
Delightful scene by Manuel Garcia y Rodriguez showing two Spanish women on a balcony festooned with flowers - Cadiz, Andalusia, Southern Spain Date: 1904

King George V and Queen Mary visit India
King George V (1865-1936) and Queen Mary (1867-1953) visit India - 1905-1906 - travelling on the HMS Renown. Date: circa 1906

Constantine, Algeria - a stork nest on Perregaux Street
Constantine, Algeria - a pair of storks nest on the top of a brick building on Perregaux Street (Rue Perregaux), while groups of people pass below. circa 1910s

Visit by King George V and Queen Mary to the Isle of Wight. Date: circa 1935

The Coat of Arms of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Jesmond Dene
The Coat of Arms of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a view of Jesmond Dene, a public park in the east end of the city. Date: circa 1900

Myanmar - Couple posing on a divan
Myanmar - Couple (Prince and Princess?) posing on a divan Date: circa 1906

Find the Fault card No. 10 -- pair of gloves. circa 1930s

Irish terriers 1938
Irish terriers, 1938. A pair of dogs. Owned by Miss V.M. Blanchard. 1938

St Dunstan & the Devil
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and Saint Artists sometimes depicted him holding the devil by the nose with a pair of tongs, as here Date: 924 - 988

The perennial difficulty of getting changed on the beach when one only has a small wicker handbag and an unhelpful husband for assistance in preserving ones modesty... Date: circa 1950s

1930s couple on their honeymoon at Felixstowe
1930s couple on their honeymoon (!) on the seafront at Felixstowe, Suffolk. Photograph by Mr Snaps (!), opposite the Pier Pavilion, next to Cordy the Chemist, Felixstowe. Date: circa 1930s

Ethiopian Girls
Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Girls. Date: circa 1905

Vidal Sassoon - British hairdresser
Vidal Sassoon (1928-2012), British hairdresser, businessman and philanthropist, is credited with creating the wedge bob. Date: 1966

Pigeons - A Portrait of a Silver and Blue Runt, Fancy Breed
A portrait of a Silver and Blue Runt, which are breeds of fancy pigeon. The Runt is one of the oldest known pigeon breeds and was widely bred in Italy, from which its French name, Roman pigeon

Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless pair over the Pacific, 26 June 1942

Rhinoceros Beetle - on tree-bark - hornless female is on the left, male is on the right (Xylotrupes pubescens ). Bohol, Philippines. February

Sarus Crane - pair in wetland habitat (Indian population) (Grus antigone). Nepal

Collared Lemmings - adults in winter fur, large winter claws for digging snow (in summer they are smaller) (Dicrostonyx torquatus). Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arcti

WWI mahogany photo frames made of propeller wood
Pair of First World War mahogany photo frames made from an aeroplane propeller.. Trench Art

Advert for Wolsey nylons
A pair of legs wearing and advertising Wolsey nylon stockings. They appear to be wearing a very groovy pair of wedge shoes as well. Date: 1947

Rockhopper Penguin Feet
A pair of Rockhopper Penguin feet. Date: 1960s

Advertisement for Remington shaver -- male and female models (Sandra Paul and Derek Ufton). 1959

WW1 - Austrian Scientists at work in Adana, Turkey
A pair of Austrian Scientists working in secrecy in Adana, Turkey during the First Work War. Note the portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Arab Father and son - Aleppo, Syria. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Macedonian Komitadjis - members of a rebel band (cheta) operating in the Balkans during the final period of the Ottoman Empire

Tartar Priests from the Sergach District - Russia
Two Priests from the Volga Tartars from the Sergach District - Russia. Date: circa 1910s

Columba palumbus, woodpigeon
Plate 23 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

LS Plate 14 from the John Reeves Collection
Large Series plate 14, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Biston betularia, peppered moth
Two specimens of the same species of moth illustrating industrial melanism, which is abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin)

Tachycineta bicolor, tree swallow
Plate 100 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Phalaropus tricolor, Wilsons phalarope
Plate 254 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Anas discors, blue-winged teal
Plate 313 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Last pair of horses used by London Fire Brigade
An historic and sad occasion for the London Fire Brigade in November 1921, when the Brigade said farewell to the last pair of horses (together with their horse-drawn fire engine)

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