Piece Collection (page 10)

Two kittens on a New Year card, playing with chess pieces. circa 1890s

Two dogs with knitting on a Christmas and New Year card
Two dogs fighting over a piece of knitting on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, In the trench, WW1
Cartoon, In the trench, showing four French soldiers in a trench on the Western Front at night, sharing pieces of a New Year cake, or Galette. Date: 1916

Three-pice summer suit, 1927
Another variation of a popular theme - a three piece summer suit from Harvey Nichols model department 1927

Cartoon, Pacific Overtures, or, a Flight from St Clouds over the Water to Charley, a new Dramatic Piece now Rehearsing, by James Gillray

Two boys emptying a piggy bank onto a table. The coins seem to be mostly penny and threepenny pieces (pre-decimalisation). Date: circa 1960s

Greek armor. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

WW2 greetings card, Safety First, showing a sleeping bear with a barrage balloon on a piece of string. Date: circa 1942

Pipe screwing machine for hat factory - this would be a piece of machinery for delivery to the recently purchased factory at Conty which Battersby

Strimping Machine at Battersbys hatworks, another solid piece of machinery bearing the makers name Date: 1902

Tipstitcher machine at Battersbys hatworks - a fantastic piece of solid engineering, obviously built to last! Date: 1902

CAMPIN, Robert. The Betrothal of
Piece of chess representing an elephant belonging to Charlemagne. Hindu art. Sculpture on ivory. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Advert for McMallum colour dyes 1937
Choose swimsuits bearing the sundip label, knitwear which carries the McMallum Dyed label, safe in the knowledge that they are not only the finest quailty and style

Romany Love
Hand coloured. Illustration of two people sitting by an open fire in a forest. There is a pot hung over the fire and one of the people is playing a guitar

Switzerland - Lucerne the Lion Monument
Coloured lantern slide of the Lion of Lucerne. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 182021 by Lukas Ahorn, the statue commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French

Klipspringer - stand on the tips of their hooves and can fit all four hooves on a piece of cliff the size of a coin (Oreotragus oreotragus). Marakele National Park - South Africa

Young boy does downhill-ice-sliding just on his coat (usually its done on a piece of cardboard), on an artificially built ice-hill.. A traditional midwinter entertainment

Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst Funeral
The order of service for the funeral of Emmeline Pankhurst, held at St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, Monday 18th June, 1928

Suffragette Clock Policeman Parliament
A suffragette Votes for Women clock showing a woman with sash, a policeman and the Houses of Parliament. The woman appears to be shouting whilst standing behind a brick wall

Hauling Italian Artillery in Trentino
In the province of Trentino, on the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy, a heavy Italian mortar is hauled into position up a mountain slope

Dutch boy scout making model animal, Holland
A Dutch boy scout following a pattern to make a model animal, Holland

Dutch boy scout carving wood, Holland
A Dutch boy scout carving a piece of wood, Holland

Dutch cub scout with papier mache
Dutch cub scout making something with papier mache, involving dipping pieces of paper in wet glue

Suffragette Child Sheet Music. A small boy holds up a charred copy of a piece of suffrage sheet music, Bother the Men performed by Miss Grym, a lecturer on Womans Rights

French heavy artillery returning to French lines - Somme
A French heavy artillery piece returning to the French lines on the Somme. Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939)

Duralium from either the Zeppelin L32 or L33
A piece of the Duralium from either the Zeppelin L32 or L33 brought down by air defences at Billericay on September 23rd-24th 1916

Souvenir dish with flags of Great Britain and Japan
A very rare souvenir dish with the engraved flags of Great Britain and Japan, together with the name of KOBE, the Japanese port on Osaka Bay on the island of Honshu

Winged Royal Flying Corps Sweetheart brooch
A winged Royal Flying Corps. Sweetheart brooch, with a propeller as a centre-piece.. Commemorative Ware

A souvenir of the Great War. The centre-piece shows a facsimile of the signatories on the document signed in 1830 on the establishment of the State of Belgium and the guaranteeing of its neutrality

An extremely rare porcelain coffee cup - WWI
An extremely rare porcelain coffee cup and saucer manufactured by S. A. de Fuisseaux Baddour, Belgique, 1914. Cup inscribed Heroic Tommy in Belgium with the Union Jack and the handle has the black

Facsimile of signatories - State of Belgium founded
A souvenir of the Great War. The centre-piece shows a facsimile of the signatories on the document signed in 1830 on the establishment of the State of Belgium and the guaranteeing of its neutrality

WWI mahogany plaque in the shape of Australia
A First World War mahogany plaque in the shape of Australia. The piece contains the following : 1. A multi-coloured badge worn at the top of the left sleeve by members of the Australian Flying Corps

A piece of aluminium LZ79
A piece of aluminium inscribed LZ79 detruit a Main Vault - Belgique - le 30 Janvier 1916. Trench Art

Horse-drawn ammunition column and artillery towed
French Reinforcements on the road to This drawing is inscribed G.H. to F.S. Horse-drawn ammunition column and an artillery piece being towed by a traction engine

The Dune Gun (artillery piece). Trench Art

Sardine Gun (artillery piece). Trench Art

Protecting crews from burning oil by G. H. Davis
Protecting the crews of tankers from burning oil during the Second World War. The new one-piece fireproof smocks, with other fire-resisting devices. Date: 1941

Pug Peter -- chained dog in prison cell
Pug Peter -- Catching the Mice with Cheese. A chained dog in a prison cell, with a crowd of mice at the open door converging on a piece of cheese. Date: 1905

World War One artillery moving down a London street, as a crowd looks on. Date: C. 1914

Advert for Rene Lalique Glass 1928
Advertisement for glassware by the renowned Rene Lalique, available from Breves Lalique Galleries near Sloane Street, London. Date: 1928

Ballantyne knitted suit - sixties woman
A three-piece cashmere suit with sleeveless checked undersweater by Scottish knitwear house, Ballantyne. Date: 1964

Ballantyne three-piece knitted suit - sixties woman
A stylish woman wearing a three-piece Intarsia Cashmere suit by Ballantyne. Date: 1964

Man in swimsuit on rocks
A plump man in a one-piece swimsuit, standing on rocks with his arms raised. He is holding a walking stick and a towel in one hand, and has a box camera in a canvas bag slung over his shoulder

Advert for Treasure cot: Mother babies & childs wear 1930
The only store devoted exclusively to Mothers babies & childrens needs. Date: 1930

Advert for Jays summer clothing 1935
Fashionable ensembles for summertime 1935

French soldiers, with bayonets fixed, capture a German Field
French infantry charging into the woods to capture a German artillery piece. The event took place near Champagne. One German officer can be seen firing a Luger pistol. 1916

William Heath Robinson with a character created by him
Photograph of William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), from a piece in the Bystander of 1924 which also included some of his illustrative contemporaries, such as H. M. Bateman and A. K. Macdonald

Pluto Pipe-Lines across the Channel by G. H. Davis
Series of illustrations showing the workings of the Pluto ( Pipe Line Under The Ocean ) pipes across the English Channel which pumped millions of gallons of petrol from Great Britain to France during

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