Pun Collection (page 5)

Young man and motorcycle on a comic postcard
Young man and motorcycle with deflated tyres on a comic postcard -- Things are pretty flat here. Date: circa 1910s

Comic visual and verbal pun - Reign of Terror
Cartoon - Comic visual and verbal pun - Reign of Terror. 19th Century

Comic visual and verbal pun -- A China-man
Cartoon - Comic visual and verbal pun - A Chinaman. 19th century

Comic postcard, Take back the Heart that thou gavest -- a female customer rejects the heart delivered by the butcher as it seems to be past its use-by date. Date: circa 1905

Cartoon, Mutton and Capers. 19th century

Card in the shape of a bottle of rum -- Rum Stuff. circa 1900

Christmas card in the shape of a pipe with seascape
Christmas card in the shape of a pipe decorated with a seascape. circa 1890s

Golfing couple on a comic Christmas card -- An ocular demonstration. Date: circa 1900s

Christmas card shaped like a babys bib. Date: circa 1890s

Cutout Christmas card with cricket ball
Cutout Christmas card with a hand holding a cricket ball -- a right good innings! Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the shape of a jam pot. Date: circa 1890s

Pots and jars on a shelf on a cutout Christmas card -- Family Jars. Date: circa 1890s

White shirt on a cutout New Year card, with comic greeting (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a dog biscuit
Greetings card in the shape of a square dog biscuit -- Rats 2U. Date: circa 1890s

Kittens and puppies on a box-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two ponies on a birthday card
Two ponies with a verse on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a cigar box
Greetings card in the shape of a box of Havana cigars with white flowers on top -- May all your troubles end in smoke. circa 1890s

Watch words on a circular greetings card
Watch words for the days of the week on a circular greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

African man on a Victorian Christmas scrap
African man with shield on a Victorian scrap -- May Christmas shield you from all care! Date: circa 1890s

Front cover of a New Year card, with a verbal joke. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1900s

Inside a pop-up Christmas card, showing a woman skating. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1900s

New Year card in the shape of a pair of binoculars or opera glasses. circa 1890s

Flowers on a saw-shaped Victorian scrap, with the words: Greatest Bargain I Ever... Date: circa 1890s

Clown pulling a donkeys tail on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Cartoon, Looking after the land, WW1
Cartoon, Looking after the land. A young soldier on leave sits by the fire with his parents. They tell him that he and his fellow-soldiers are guarding the land at the Front

Cartoon, Gathering laurels, WW1
Cartoon, Gathering laurels. An army cook tells a soldier that he also gathers laurels -- not the kind won in battles, but the bay leaves used to flavour food. Date: 1917

Christmas card - First World War biplane -- How Time Flies. 1910s

Boots and shoes on a Christmas card
A large number of boots and shoes on a greetings card -- May Christmas joys not wear you out. Date: circa 1890s

Three comic scenes on a Christmas card: Now Then Play, A Cricket Stump, and We re All Frozen Out. circa 1890s

The Frog Suitor
Woman is courted by a frog - but can she be sure he is really a prince in disguise ? (Theres a pun on the French word pretendant which means both suitor and impostor) Date: 1919

Little dog with a letter on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Bag with punning verse on a Christmas card
Bag with crab and punning verse on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

A saw on a Christmas card -- the basis of a fairly excruciating pun. 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. circa 1890s

Christmas cheque book greetings, from the Good Old Gold Christmas Banking Co Unlimited, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas cheque book from the Bank of Prosperity
Christmas cheque book greetings from the Bank of Prosperity, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, A failure, WW1
Cartoon, A failure. Two French soldiers coming out of a cafe remark that a shell has fallen in the middle of the street, avoiding all the African soldiers fighting with the German army

Cartoon, Enfer-Pacha, WW1
Cartoon, Enfer-Pacha (a pun on Enver Pasha -- Enfer meaning Hell). Ismail Enver Pasha (1881-1922), leader of the Ottoman Empire and member of the Central Powers during the First World War. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Guarding Salonika, WW1
Cartoon, Guarding Salonika. Two sailors in white uniform on deck, watching the passing shipping. Date: 1916

Cartoon, W H Smith news stall
Cartoon, showing a man at a W H Smith news stall on a railway station platform. 1910

WW2 birthday card, birds and flowers. Date: circa 1942

Cartoon, Convalescent leave, WW1
Cartoon, Convalescent leave, showing two girls chatting to a little boy dressed as a soldier who has a bandage on his knee

Frightfulness - WW1 humorous dog postcard
The Pup: - Guess that old Shoe knows what " Frightfulness" is! A comic postcard from the Great War era showing a puppy contemplating a slipper he has just destroyed

Charles II knights the sirloin
Charles II knights a " Sir Loin" of beef at a feast. Date: 1600s

Girl in fancy dress, Camborne, Cornwall
Girl in fancy dress for a carnival at Camborne, Cornwall, dressed in a matchbox costume with no more strikes written, punningly, on the side

Cartoon, The Bottling Season, WW1
Cartoon, The Bottling Season, now is the time to bottle fruit and other things. Showing a smiling British sailor of HMS Alert sitting on a glass jar containing battleships labelled as Preserves

Cartoon and portraits, Kluck! Kluck!, WW1
Cartoon and portraits, Kluck! Kluck! A comment on the defeat of General Alexander von Kluck in the Battle of the Marne, turning the German invaders away from Paris in the early days of the First

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