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Advert for Mappin & Webb vanity items 1934Mappin & Webb advertising a variety of items. 1934
Find the Fault card No. 7 -- pocket watch. circa 1930s
Albert Verwey (1865-1937). Dutch poet. Portrait by Jan VethAlbert Verwey (1865-1937). Dutch poet. Portrait, 1885, by Jan Veth (1864-1925). Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland
Evaristo Arnus y de Ferrer (1820-1890). Spanish financier. Engraving. Coloured
Gants Famous Sportsmans diaryAdvertisment for D.M. Gants leather waistcoat pocket diary, complete with a nickel pencil and ideal for elegant sportsmen Date: 1915
Little girl on the telephone on a Valentine card -- Hello! Yes I ll be your Valentine. Date: early 20th century
Caricature of JosephHurst, Lyceum Theatre box office managerCaricature of Joseph Hurst, Lyceum Theatre box office manager. 1883
Caricature of the dramatist Henry James ByronCaricature of the English dramatist, editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor, Henry James Byron -- Our Boys Father
Caricature of the actor Robert SoutarCaricature of the English actor, comedian, stage manager, writer and director Robert Soutar -- Full of Gaiety. circa 1880s
Superintendent Sophia Stanley, woman police officerSuperintendent Sophia Stanley, who served from 1918 to 1922 as the first Superintendent of Women Police in London. The new uniform for policewomen, introduced in 1919, was named after her
Three women police officers in a gardenThree women police officers (Iris Walker, Connie Hobbs(?) and Joan Strangleman) posing for their photo in a garden. They are in the Bather style uniform which was worn from 1946 to 1968
Jockey / Jh Martin Vf 1907American jockey John Henry Martin wears top boots, a jockety cap & over his silks a grey overcoat (possibly fly- fronted) with a velvet collar, a large pocket. 1907
Velvet Suited CupidVelvet cavalier costume: breeches with buckles at the knee, waistcoat with pocket flaps, lace fall collar, cuffs & shirt ruffles, socks & shoes with a bar across the instep. Date: circa 1913
Businesswear for 1910R.V Vasser-Smith in a morning coat & waistcoat with braid trim, grey striped trousers with a front crease, all round collar, blue striped shirt & black & brown town boots. Date: 1910
Montagu WilliamsMONTAGU STEPHEN WILLIAMS Soldier and barrister Date: 1835 - 1892
ThornycroftSIR JOHN ISaC THORNYCROFT English naval architect Date: 1843 - 1928
Richmond / 6th Duke / LennoxCHARLES HENRY GORDON-LENNOX 6th DUKE OF RICHMOND 1st DUKE OF GORDON Conservative political leader, member of the Disraeli Administration Date: 1818 - 1903
Edward S. Gordon, Vanity Fair, ApeEDWARD STRATHEARN GORDON, Baron Gordon of Drumearn (1814-1879) Scottish judge and politician. Member of Parliament for Thetford from 1867 to 1868 and for Glasgow
Cyril Arthur PearsonSIR CYRIL ARTHUR PEARSON (1866 - 1921), English publisher of magazines and newspapers Date: 1904
J L E Meissonier, French painterJEAN-LOUIS-ERNEST MEISSONIER French painter Date: 1815 - 1891
James Richard HennesseyJAMES RICHARD HENNESSEY Brandy manufacturer Date: -
White Waistcoat 1910Herbert Haynes Twining wears a dark grey suit with a morning coat, black & white striped cravat with a gold ring, wing collar, white waistcoat & black & tan half boots. Date: 1910
Arthur Collins / V Fair 10ARTHUR COLLINS Impresario Date: -
Strathcona / Da Smith / VfDONALD ALEXANDER SMITH 1st BARON STRATHCONA and MOUNT ROYAL Canadian fur trader, financier, and politician, born in Scotland Date: 1820 - 1914
Baron Herschell / Vfair 10BARON HERSCHELL Statesman Date: -
Anthony Hope Hawkins / VfANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS alias ANTHONY HOPE English novelist and playwright Date: 1863 - 1933
Edmund Hodgson YatesEDMUND HODGSON YATES Writer and journalist Date: 1831 - 1894
Mens jackets and coatsMan wearing lounge suits, boater, holding a cane, single breasted overcoat with lepel and spats. Circa 1912
Pocketed skirts 1914Two models with their hands in their pockets modelling the latest trend. Date: 1914
Two cats on a cutout Christmas card, enjoying a game of billiards. Date: circa 1890s
Two girls on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1870s
Little girl in a garden with flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Illustration, Stories from Puppyland -- specimen illustration from another pocket book, Topsy in Toyland, showing a little girl in a toy shop with her mother, trying to decide what to buy. Date: 1904
Illustration, Two Simple Tales for Simple FolksIllustration by Cecil Aldin, Two Simple Tales for Simple Folks, a pocket book for children. Cock-a-Doodle-Do, My Dame Has Lost Her Shoe, showing a woman chasing after the dog who has stolen her shoe
Cover design, Two Simple Tales for Simple Folks, a pocket book for children with text by Hs Stirling, illustrated by John Hassall and Cecil Aldin. Showing a crowing cockerel. Date: 1904
Greater bird of paradise, Paridisaea apoda.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)
Rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)
Zebra, Equus quagga.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802) published by Harrison, London
Tufted ape or mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)
Ash-colored and red parrot or African grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or
Great spotted lizard with a forked or double tail, Ceiolaemus species.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or
Dromedary camel, Camelus dromedarius.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)
Painted Chinese pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or
White or square-lipped rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or
Purple emperor butterfly, Apatura iris.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)
Great peacock moth, Saturnia pyri, a native of Africa.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or
Ouran outang or Bornean Orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or
Emperor moth of New South Wales, Opodiphthera eucalypti.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or