Prize Collection (page 2)

Portrait of Marchese Guglielmo Marconi
This is a portrait of Italian inventor, Marconi, born 1874, who revolutionised the world of communications with his wireless invention

Sir Samuel Evans at Prize Court, London, WW1
Sir Samuel Evans, in September 1914, presiding over the first Prize Court held at the London Law Courts since 1856. 1914

Prizewinning Jersey bull. circa 1900

Alcock and Brown are presented with the Daily Mail prize of 10, 000 by Winston Churchill

HAMSUN, Knut (1859-1952). Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize in 1920. Painting

Cover design, International Exhibition, Brussels
Cover design, Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles (Universal and International Exhibition, Brussels), with international airship competitions

Display of cattle at annual County Show, Devon
Display of cattle, led by handlers, at the annual County Show, Devon. Date: 1960s

Santos-Dumont airship No6 rounding the Eiffel Tower in t?
Santos-Dumont airship No6 rounding the Eiffel Tower in the process of winning the Deutsch Prize

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in 1921. Formula to calculate the energy, of Albert

Borwicks Prize Medal Knife Powder
A tin of knife polish

Vladimir Dmitrievich Zamyatin - poet
Vladimir Dmitrievich Zamyatin, Russian Soviet poet (1915-1952). The winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1952 - posthumously)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Photographic portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the Irish dramatist, critic and Nobel Prize winner, pictured in 1908

The Horse Show, Alexandra Park, London, 1873
Engraving showing four scenes at the Alexandra Park Horse Show of 1873. Clockwise from top left: 1st Prize Mule and Cart Mare; a Faller at the Water Jump; Exercising a thoroughbred; a group of riders

Luigi Pirandello Nobel
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Italian novelist, dramatist and lecturer, awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1934

White shorthorn heifer exhibited at Smithfield
Champion white shorthorn heifer exhibited at Smithfield in December 1874

White Dorking fowl, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Miss Fairhurst and first prize winner at Colchester 1873

White-crested black Polish chickens, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by P. Unsworth and winners of numerous cups and prizes

Advert, L & H Nathan, Fancy Dress Costume
Advert for L & H Nathan, Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus, London -- Fancy Dress Costume for balls and theatricals. 1885

Louis Bleriot after His First Crossing of the English Ch?
Louis Bleriot after His First Crossing of the English Channel on Sunday 25th July 1909 Date: 1920s

Sir William Ramsay, Nobel Prize for Chemistry

W D B Creagh, boxer, prohibition message, probably 1920s

Goodshaw Prize Band

Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Window Display with a musical theme Date: 1948

The reverse of a Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard detailing information about this famous card publisher, information of the different types of card they published

Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, 1912, by Mappin and Webb, hallmarked London 1912, with fine model of Cody?s Flyer, Type No

Old Bleach Needlework Competition Advert
An advertisement promoting a £1000 prize competition for needlework, hosted by the Old Bleach Linen Co. Ltd. Date: circa 1921

Pappillion
A portrait painting of an unknown woman wearing a distinctive yellow dress, stood upon a black and white tiled floor. This artwork won a £10 prize in the Colour competition. Date: circa 1915

No. 4 Detachment, 3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers
The No. 4 Detachment of the Third Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, the winners of the Queen's prize at the recent artillery meeting at Shoeburyness, 1885

Stills from The Beauty Prize
The Beauty Prize (here captioned as The Beauty Contest') was a silent film from 1924, now lost. It starred Viola Dana (1897-1987). Date: 1924

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916). Spanish engineer, playwright, politician and mathematician. Leading of the Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century

Miss Collins
A portrait oil painting of Miss Gladys Neville Collins, daughter of trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, J. T. Collins. Date: circa 1925

Dr. Hamilton
A portrait oil painting of Dr. Hamilton, who is wearing a heavy long coat, with a white scarf, with a proud pose. Date: circa 1923

Professor Harrison Moore
A portrait oil painting of Australian lawyer and academic professor at the University of Melbourne, Sir William Harrison Moore

A Valley of the Tweed
Oil painting showing sunlight striking a landscape of hills and distant mountains. Awarded the Wynne Prize in 1921. Date: circa 1921

Lengthmen - Prize Length, Newport Division, 1943 - Newport, South Wales. The term Lengthsman was coined in the 18th century in a concept rooted in the Tudor Era as far back as War of the Roses

George Gale Prize Old Ale

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1 XV744 at St, Pancras
Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 XV744 (712007), of the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit, at St, Pancras Station coal-yard, for the 1969 Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race. Flown by Sqn. Ldr

Poster, Cycles Saving, Grand Premier Prix, Gold Medal, 13 Rue Corbeau, Paris. Safe enough to strap your baby onto the handlebars! Date: circa 1900s

Kenya - East Africa - Two Italian Elephant Hunters and the sad sight of their prize'. Date: circa 1910s

Henri Farman - Flight of One Kilometre 1908
British-French pilot Henri Farman winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of 50, 000 francs at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. For the successful flight of an aircraft heavier than air

Henri Farman (1874 - 1958), British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer. Appearing on the front cover of ?The Illustrated London News

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and communist politician
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet and Communist Party politician, previously named Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Date: circa 1960s

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Date: circa 1940s

Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984), Soviet Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for his novel, Quiet Flows the Don. Date: circa 1960s

Desmond Tutu, South African activist and clergyman
Desmond Tutu (The Most Rev Dr Desmond Mpilo Tutu, b 1931), South African activist and Christian clergyman. He was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa

Linus Pauling, American chemist, peace activist and writer
Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), American chemist, peace activist, author and educator, winner of two Nobel Prizes, one for Chemistry in 1954 and one for Peace in 1962

John Ogdon, British concert pianist, with Nikita Khrushchev
John Ogdon (1937-1989), British concert pianist, shaking hands with the Soviet Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971)

Henry Kissinger, American politician and diplomat
Henry Alfred Kissinger (b 1923), German-born American political scientist, diplomat, 56th US Secretary of State 1973-1977. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his role in US foreign policy

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