Pun Collection (page 2)

Sun blind with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Covered dish with comic verse on a Christmas card (what is under the cover remains a mystery, but it sounds fishy). Date: circa 1890s

Sheet music with comic verse on a Christmas card -- Auld Lang Syne, Home Sweet Home, The Mistletoe Bough and Royal Country Dances (four tunes, fortunes). Date: circa 1890s

Sole with comic verse on a Christmas card -- From the bottom of my sole. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Tailors make a Man. circa 1833

Cartoon, Ruling the Roast. circa 1833

Cartoon comment on Prime Minister Charles Grey
Cartoon, Politics - a comment on the Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey. circa 1833

Cartoon, A Waterman and a Lighterman. circa 1833

Cartoon, A Professer of the Healing Art - cobbler repairing a shoe. circa 1833

Two musical cats on a German greetings postcard -- Songs without Words (a pun on a work by Mendelssohn). Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Poaching on Forbidden Preserves. 19th century

Comic design, Disturbed by the Night Mare. 1831

Cartoon, Chipping Norton - See what a pretty Figure he cuts. early 19th century

Cartoon - The True Kings Bench - a carpenter. early 19th century

WW2 pop-up Christmas card (inside), May Joy-stick to you, Happy Landings! Date: circa 1942

Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Dog Watch
circa 1906

Musical terms up to date - Fortissimo - very loud
1903

Good & Gay, revue of revues, Alexandra Theatre, Hull
Good & Gay, the revue of revues by Frank Ashworth, at the Alexandra Theatre, Hull. 1915

Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrow
Visitor to Dottieville Lunatic Asylum which is undergoing structural improvements (to harmless lunatic who is extremely busy wheeling a barrow upside down)

Christmas card in the shape of a barometer. Date: circa 1890s

Hat with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card
Bowler hat with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Man in nightgown with comic verse on a Christmas card
Man in nightgown with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card, with a pun on Ear / Year. Date: circa 1890s

Greeting on a New Year card (possibly with a pun on Ear / Year). Date: circa 1890s

Ear with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic pictogram verse on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Tools with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Metal pin with comic verse on a greetings card
Metal pin with comic verse (including references to pipe smoking) on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Baby and boots puzzle on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Last and boots on a Christmas and New Year card
Cobbler's last and boots on a comic Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic pictogram on a Christmas and New Year card
Comic pictogram with a puzzle about family relationships on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Pictogram with comic verse on a Christmas card
Pictogram (The Times newspaper, a button, a joint of mutton) with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Sealing wax and seal with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Wax, glue, gum and dye with comic verse on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Last Will and Testament with verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Scarf and hand muff with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Joint of meat with comic verse on a Christmas card
Joint of meat with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Piece of string with comic letter on a Christmas card
Piece of string with comic letter on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: 1895

Piece of string with comic verse on a Christmas card
Piece of string with comic verse instructions on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Flags and string with comic verse on a Christmas card
British and Welsh flags and string (representing a noose) with comic verse on a Christmas card at the time of the Boer War, with references to Steyn, Kruger, Buller and the Transvaal. Date: circa 1900

Grate with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Drunkard and bottle with comic verse on a Christmas card
Drunkard giving a red pillar box a cigar and a drink from a bottle, with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Clothes prop with comic verse on a Christmas card
Clothes prop with washing line and socks, with comic verse on a Christmas card -- including a Leap Year proposal in advance of the following year. Date: circa 1890s

Teapot with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cup of tea with comic verse on a Christmas card
Cup of tea with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Sick man with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Heart with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

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