Ruff Collection (page 4)

Two clowns, happy and sad. Date: circa 1900

Jan Stade - Larmessin
Jan Stade (1527 - 1579) Flemish mathematician and astronomer

Jacques Cartier / Head
JACQUES CARTIER French sailor and explorer Date: 1491 - 1557

Clown with banjo on a Victorian scrap
Victorian Scrap - Clown with Banjo -- Our Old Friend. late 19th century

JEAN NICOT French diplomat and scholar who introduced tobacco from Portugal into France

Cat and Elizabethan poet on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Female clown with red heart on a Valentine postcard -- Make other hearts happy if thine would be so. Date: circa 1890s

Clown head on a Victorian scrap
Clown head in profile on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Sir Richard Beaumont
SIR RICHARD BEAUMONT owner of Whitley Hall in Yorkshire; he is wearing a falling ruff over his slashed coat. Date: 1574 - 1631

Guillaume De Baillou
GUILLAUME DE BAILLOU French medical writer Date: 1538 - 1616

Victorian Scrap - Clown squatting. late 19th century

The Countess of Yarborough in fancy dress
Marcia Amelia Mary Pelham, Countess of Yarborough, 13th Baroness Conyers and 7th Baroness Fauconberg, OBE (18 October 1863 17 November 1926), British peer

Eurasian Ruffe and Millers Thumb
Eurasian Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua, also known as Ruff, Jack Ruff, Ruffe and Pope), and Millers Thumb (Cottus gobio, also known as Freshwater Sculpin, European Bullhead)

Victorian woman in frilly costume and hat
A Victorian woman in a hat and dress with frilly white ruff and cuffs, possibly an actress in theatrical costume. Date: circa 1870s

Cover design, Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet by C Collodi, translated from the Italian by M A Murray, illustrated by Charles Folkard. Showing three wooden puppets framed by theatrical curtains

Dinka Man with elaborate head and neck decoration - Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Henry Hudson sails up the Hudson River
Henry Hudson (1570? - 1611?), English sea explorer and navigator, sailing the Half Moon discovers the Hudson River in September 1609

Pierrot Hat
A Pierrot fancy dress hat, with pom-poms on it, worn with a neck ruff, is a look of which one never tires; it is always becoming, gay, and easy to make! 1930s

Jack and Jill by Florence Hardy
Two children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes, play in the snow with a sledge. The little girl, wearing neck ruff and holding a muff to keep her hands warm waves a sprig of holly in the air

Henry VIII of England
KING HENRY VIII Reigned 1509-1547

Redingote of 1824
A pink redingote trimmed with swans down. Worn with a white ruff collar, broad-brimmed hat trimmed with red plumes & pink shoes trimmed with swans down. She holds a handkerchief

Mary, Queen of Scotland
Mary, Queen of Scots, holding her pet dog

New Years Day in Old New York - a man raises his hat to give a woman a seasonal kiss. circa 1680s

Oscar Asche as Count Hannibal, by Asche and Norreys Connell
Count Hannibal by F. Norreys Connell (b. 1874) and Oscar Asche (1871 - 1936) from the novel by Stanley John Weyman (1855-1928) written in 1901

Women in fancy dress, c. 1916
Two women dressed in fancy dress costume. The theme seems to be clowns, but rather elegant ones The girl on the left wears a checked tunic with a neck ruff

Children in clown and soldier fancy dress
Two little boys pose for their photograph wearing fancy dress. One is a pierrot clown with lavish ruff; the other is a miniature soldier. The photograph was probably taken in India. Date: 1920s

Little boy dressed as a clown - and his nurse
A little boy dressed up in a clown fancy dress costume for a party. He appears to be accompanied by his nurse, or ayah - the photograph looks to be taken on the Indian sub-continent. Date: 1920s

Misfitz Dolls - Punch. early 20th century

Chidren in carnival costume, Venlo, Netherlands. circa 1959

Elizabethan servants polishing saucepans

The Nose Game - Artistic Nose D7, Denotes Refinement. 1927

Sweet Anne Page, by G D Leslie (from The Merry Wives of Windsor). 1888

Cat in a cradle on a cutout Christmas card
Smiling cat in a cradle on a cutout Christmas card. circa 1890s

Two kittens in a cradle on a cutout greetings card
Two kittens in a wickerwork cradle on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

The Nose Game - Inquisitive Nose B7, Denotes Spirit of Enquiry. 1927

Clown with head through paper on a Christmas card
Clown with his head poking through a torn ring of paper on a Christmas card -- Here we are again. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with a clown breaking through, and a comic verse. circa 1890s

Boy, girl and clown on three Victorian Christmas scraps
Boy with holly, girl with pudding and clown with cigar on three Victorian Christmas scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Colourful clown on a novelty postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Perfume label, Le Bouquet de Pierrot, Paris
Perfume label, Le Bouquet de Pierrot, from Picard, Paris. Date: circa 1930s

Clown on a movable New Year card
Clown jumping through a paper ring on a movable New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Portrait of a lady, 1657, by Jan Victors (1619-1676)
Jan Victors (1619-1676). Dutch painter. Portrait of a lady, 1657. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Colourful clown on a Valentine card
Colourful clown on a movable Valentine card. early 20th century

Cat dancing on a Christmas card, with a tab on the right to change the picture. circa 1890s

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

Zoological Misfitz - Toby - Mr Punchs dog. early 20th century

The Big Top Jig-Saw Puzzle, with circus clown and dog. 20th century

Snap Playing Card - Courtier bowing. circa 1910s

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