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Metal pin with comic verse on a greetings cardMetal pin with comic verse (including references to pipe smoking) on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s
Pipe and tobacco pouch on a Christmas and New Year cardPipe and tobacco pouch on a comic Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Pipe with comic greeting on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Pipe with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Comic postcard, Couple leapfrogging on the beach - I m full of fun and fancy free! Date: 20th century
Scottish shepherd with dog and sheep on a Christmas cardScottish shepherd with dog and sheep in the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Robin smoking a pipe on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Advert for Aquascutum mens coats 1929Mens coat made from impenetrable Aquascutum trench coatings, with detachable collar and lining of Teddy Bear Fleece. 1929
Advertisement for Pears Soap from Illustrated London News. 1894
The Ancient English Musket & Halbert Exercise, Plate 3. 1794
Pipe-smoking Syrian Dervish with fantastic hairstyle. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth
Stanley Baldwin lighting his pipeStanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947), Conservative politician and Prime Minister Date: 1929
Misfitz - The Pied Piper of Hamelin. early 20th century
The Wharf and Quay Street, St Ives, Cornwall" One of a great series of studies of St Ives, Cornwall. The Wharf & Quay Street from Seagull Flats, Morning. The Harbour Beach Foresand, cottages & Quay House, St Leonards Chapel
BP petrol advertisement, 1925150 miles of pipe lines. Advertisement for British Petroleum with an illustration by Christopher Clark showing construction of a pipe line in the Persian desert - one of the many activities of
Two men sitting smoking their pipes. circa early 20th century
Lighting up a pipe - Volendam, The Netherlands" Can I light it again?" Two old tars at Volendam, The Netherlands lighting up. Note the fine examples of traditional clothing and footwear in evidence on this card. circa 1913
Pipe organ. Built by Manuel de la Vina and Bernabe Garcia SeOrgan built by Manuel de la Vina and Bernabe Garcia Seares, 1715. Mondonedo Cathedral. Provincie of Lugo. Galicia. Spain
Bukhara, Uzbekistan - Smoking a chillim pipe. In Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, a hookah is called chillim. Date: 1905
Kokand, Uzbekistan - Tea House. As the caption states, " The tea of the Khans tastes better". Kokand was the capital of the of the Kokand Khanate. Date: circa 1909
Advert for Players Navy Cut De Luxe pipe tobacco 1915Players Navy Cut De Luxe pipe tobacco. Date: 1915
Players Navy Cut Snap Game - The Digger - holding a large pack of Players " Digger" Flake - Empire Grown pipe tobacco. Date: 1930
Uzbekistan - Samarkand - Smoking a Chillum PipeUzbekistan - Samarkand - Local men sharing a smoke of a Chillum Pipe. Date: circa 1905
The Merry Family, 1668, by Jan Havicksz Steen (c. 1625-1679)Jan Havicksz Steen (c.1625-1679). Dutch painter. The Merry Familiy, 1668. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland
Votive relief for the shepherd god. About 160 AD. Two figures of Pan in a grotto with an altar and a tree between them, above three nymphs, Hermes and a cult pillar of Hecate. Glyptothek. Munich
Summer evening at Hammars repair yard, 1885, by Albert EdelAlbert Edelfelt (1854-1905). Finnish painter. Summer evening at Hammars repair yard, 1885. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark
Elderly Chinese man in hat smoking a long pipeFantastic photographic postcard of an elderly Chinese man wearing a wide-brimmed woven straw hat smoking a very long-stemmed pipe. Date: circa 1910s
Queen of the Gipsies Margaret FinchMargaret Finch- Queen of the Gipsies in Norwood, London : centenarian, pipe-smoker and dog-lover. Date: 19th century
1930s couple on their honeymoon at Felixstowe1930s 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
Woman asleep and dreaming on a Christmas card. She has been playing music from Handels Messiah on a pipe organ, and dreams of angels announcing the birth of Christ -- For unto us a child is born
Argyll and Sutherland Highlander on a Christmas cardSoldier of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders playing a pipe on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Harry Vardon, professional golferHenry William (Harry) Vardon (1870-1937), professional golfer from Jersey. He was famous for the Vardon Grip, an overlapping grip which he appears to be using here. Date: 1926
Cecil Aldin with two dogsCecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935), British artist and illustrator, with two of his dogs, Cracker, a bull terrier, and Mickie, an Irish wolfhound. Date: 1932
Cat with mouse in trapA cat has caught a mouse in a trap. Another mouse plays a tune in the hope that the cat will release the mouse. Date: circa 1933
Uighurs dancing, Xinjiang, north west ChinaUighurs performing their national dance, Xinjiang, north west China. Date: 1953
British entering Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa, WW1British forces entering Dar-es-Salaam, formerly German East Africa, after the surrender of 4 September 1916. 1916
Parade of students, Dar-es-Salaam, East AfricaParade of students to a festival site, Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1910
Tramp on a Balham street, SW LondonA tramp sitting on a bench in a Balham street in SW London. Date: circa 1960s
Costumes of Canadian natives: Nipissing and Ottowa people.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840
The Prince of Wales skiing and pipe smoking in NorwayThe Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor) pictured at Finse on the Bergen Railway in Norway, where he was on skis for eight hours a day
Indian soldier smoking the hubble bubble pipeA party of Indian sepoys take it in turns to smoke the hubble bubble pipe at a wayside halt. Date: 1916
Blitz in London -- Britannia Row, Islington, WW2Blitz in London -- firefighters in action at the premises of Hill & Co, Britannia Row, Islington, damaged by bombing on 22 March 1944. General view at the rear of the building. Date: 1944
Blitz in London -- Shoe Lane, WW2Blitz in London -- men at work with hosepipes in Shoe Lane, City of London, during the Second World War. Date: 1940s
Blitz in London -- Westminster Bridge Road, WW2Blitz in London -- firefighters in action with hoses at John Oakey & Sons, Westminster Bridge Road. The building is at risk, as the wall is bulging. Date: 1940s
WW2 poster, Good Workski! Carry Onski! Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s
German poster, England is to blame, WW1German propaganda poster, declaring that England is to blame for all the problems in Germany during the First World War, depicting a man in a Scottish cap with a bulldog at his feet
Caucasian oilfields by G. H. DavisThe Achilles Heel of the Soviets: the Caucasian oilfields. A pictorial map of the strategically vulnerable oilfields on either side of the Caucasus upon which Russia depends for the bulk of her
Bubbles by Muriel Dawson, showing a little child blowing bubbles from a toy pipe. Date: 1927