Pointed Collection (page 8)

Black clown playing concertina on a Christmas card
Black clown playing the concertina on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Clown falling from a donkey on a greetings card, with accompanying verse. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Clown with head through paper hoop on a greetings card
Clown with his head through a paper hoop on a greetings card. circa 1890s

Cartoon, A shady deal, WW1
Cartoon, a German suggests a shady deal involving the import of German goods to France, perhaps for the purposes of spying. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Field hair trimmer, WW1
Cartoon, A field hair trimmer for cutting the hair of German soldiers. A long queue of hairy men wait their turn. Date: 1916

Victorian Scrap, clown with painted face and pointed hair. circa 1880s

Victorian Scrap, clown in green and black striped costume, balancing his pointed hat upside down on his finger. circa 1880s

Cartoon, Ten centuries have passed, WW1
Cartoon, Ten centuries have passed. An allegorical female representing the medieval period holds the famous sword named Durandal (or Durendal), from the time of Charlemagne

Horse-head engraved on bone
Late Pleistocene wild horses head engraved on the right fourth metatarsal bone of a horse, specimen (NHM 38745). Found among horse remains from the Late Magdalenian site of Roc du Courbet, Bruniquel

Cartoon, The real Galette des Rois, WW1
Cartoon, The real Galette des Rois, or Epiphany cake -- King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Sultan Mehmed V, watched by a smiling German ally, divide a stash of money between them. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The product of German science, WW1
Cartoon, The product of German science, showing a group of learned men looking at a subhuman German soldier, with a lookalike Neanderthal man on display in the background. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The electric underpants, WW1
Cartoon, The electric underpants, showing a new invention by a German scientist. Not only do the underpants keep the soldier warm in the trenches

Cartoon, Soldier returning from leave, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier returning from leave tells his colleague what it was like. At every point someone pointed to the Keep Quiet notice, although what he had said was entirely innocent

Cartoon, His Last Card... Its a Knave, WW1
Cartoon, His Last Card... Its a Knave, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II with bloodstained hands, playing his last card of the war

Cartoon, German communique, WW1
Cartoon, German communique, a satirical comment on a German claim that their squadron has sunk a Russian torpedo boat with the loss of 15, 000 lives

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a Doberman pinscher, seated. Date: 1927

Group photo, Prussian soldiers at training camp, WW1
Group photo, Prussian soldiers at training camp around the start of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Anguilla anguilla, or Sharp-Nosed Eel
Anguilla anguilla (Anguilla acutirostris), or Sharp-Nosed Eel, a freshwater eel. Date: 1865

French Theatre -- Le Monologue du Resolu
Le Monologue du Resolu (Monologue of a Determined Man), by Roger de Collerye. Date: 16th century

Woman and boy walking on a beach near a large pointed rock. Date: circa 1920s

Isabel, third wife of King John from her effigy at Fontevraud Abbey.. Handcolored engraving from Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period drawn by Charles Martin

Pointed-leaved pernettia, Gaultheria mucronata.. Handcolored copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from Sydenham Edwards The Botanical Register, London, Ridgway, 1834

Sharp-pointed or prickly dryandra, Banksia armata.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine

Railway station, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Railway station at Englewood, New Jersey, USA. circa 1905

Cartoon, Hands Up! WW1
Cartoon, Hands Up! A German soldier holds up the severed hands of his female victim, calling to the enemy not to shoot, we are soldiers just like you. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Mutiny, WW1
Cartoon, Mutiny -- French children playing war games, some of them representing the German enemy. They are in the Rue St Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, near the Sacre Coeur. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Brilliant second thoughts, WW1
Cartoon, Brilliant second thoughts. Emperor Franz Josef of Austria comments: I m beginning to think that Bulow only went to see the Italians to get them to declare war on me. Date: 1915

Useful gifts for serving soldiers and sailors - WW1. A weatherproof match box and an ever-pointed magazine pencil. Advertisement for J. C

Pan blowing butterfly
Front cover of Pan magazine, featuring the mythology, Greek God Pan, blowing gently on his shoulder were a red admiral has landed. Date: 1920

Suffragette Men in Fancy Dress Votes for Women. A group of five men, two apparently suffragettes, have guns pointed at their heads

Women outside dancing around statue of God Pan
Front cover of Pan magazine, featuring women outside in fancy dress prancing around a statue of the God Pan. Date: 1919

Folio of 97 etchings and drypoints of the Western Front, WW1
Page from a German folio of 97 drypoint etchings of the Western Front, 1914-1918, by W Schimmelpflug, 16th Dragoon Regiment. Two German soldiers walking along a country road. Date: 1916

Sculptured caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II, WW1
Sculptured caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II shinning up a tree with a British bulldog at the base, English School

Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, WW1
Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, showing Kaiser Wilhelm shivering in the sea at Calais, with Dover guarded by battleships in the far distance during the First World War

Cartoon, German soldier with mask of Culture, WW1
Cartoon, German soldier with a mask of Culture (Kultur) during the First World War. Date: 1914

Cartoon, The Two Extremes of Public Opinion, WW1
Cartoon, The Two Extremes of Public Opinion, Optimism and Pessimism, during the First World War. On the left is a smiling, patriotic man reading the financial news

Officer at the front, obtaining German pointed helmets 1915
British officer dodging bullets from every direction, while picking German pointed helmets from a near by enemies trench, using a couple of bayonets, some string and a bar of soap

Jewish Man, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Described as a Jewish Man, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

German Red Cross soldiers in Berlin, WW1
German Red Cross soldiers marching along a Berlin street in the early stages of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Cartoon, As One Possessed, WW1
Cartoon, As One Possessed, showing how the ordinary German beer drinker has been possessed by a devil in the shape of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has brought about the outbreak of the First World War

Kaiser Wilhelm with his generals, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany giving directions to his generals at the start of the First World War. Date: 1914

Halloween Greetings Postcard
On Halloween, the witches night, If YELLOW is the lantern light Your future surely will be bright. A witch flies across the moonlit sky on her broomstick

Cartoon, Knights of the Air, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Knights of the Air, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II and Field Marshal Von Hindenburg with a scene of destruction behind them

Cartoon, Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer, WW1
Cartoon, Surprises in Store for England, 1. Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer. An imaginary scene showing German soldiers standing inside shell casings, ready to be fired at the enemy

Caricature, Sir John French as a Frenchman, WW1
Caricature of Field Marshal Sir John French, British Army officer, depicted as a Frenchman at the start of the First World War. He led the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from August 1914

WWI - German Infantry Officer Date: 1914

Advert for J. Roussel underwear 1948
A blonde bombshell model wearing the Roussel suspender belt garment, with bullet padding bra. 1948

Holy Week Procession
An Easter Holy Week procession in Seville, Spain, showing the participants dressed in the weird white costumes with masks and pointed hats. Date: early 1930s

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