Ruff Collection (page 5)

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

Little Folk Misfitz - Little Tommy Tucker. circa 1910

Music cover, Laugh Clown Laugh, waltz song by Lewis and Young, composed by Ted Fiorito. 1928

Zoological Misfitz - Jacko. early 20th century

Caricatures of Alexander Henderson and H B Farnie
Caricatures of Alexander Henderson, theatre owner and director, and Henry Brougham Farnie (1836-1889), author, librettist and adapter -- Not Exactly " Out of the Hunt"

Music cover, Broken-Hearted Clown, a song by Art Noel and Don Pelosi. 1937

Caricature of the actor and dramatist Harry Paulton
Caricature of the comic actor and dramatist Harry Paulton in the role of The Abbe. circa 1880s

Christmas card, Clown and lady with cracker
Christmas card, Clown and lady pulling a cracker. early 20th century

Little girl in Elizabethan dress on circular Christmas card
Little girl in Elizabethan dress on a circular Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Gerard Reynst, 2nd Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Gerard (Gerrit) Reynst (circa 1558-1615) - Dutch merchant and 2nd Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Date: circa 1614

Conrad Feuerlein
CONRAD FEUERLEIN German churchman and theologian. Date: 1629 - 1704

North German Costume
Townspeople of Northern Germany. The men wear baggy breeches (? Galligaskins), short cloaks, doublets & hats with moderately tall crowns. The woman wears a mantle & apron. Date: 1590

English Costume C16Th
Royal Costume. Men: flat caps, fur-lined gowns, doublets, heavily embroidered sleeves, duck-bill toed shoes. Woman: ruff split at the front under the chin. 16th century

German Costume C. 1615
Men: doublet with tabbed border, high standing collar, voluminous hose or breeches, shoes with roses, cloak, ruff. Woman: bodice & over-skirt hitched up to reveal petticoat Date: circa 1615

English Costume 1620
Man: doublet with overlapping, pointed tabs, cloak, shoes with roses, transitional collar between ruff & falling band. Woman: ruff, bodice with pointed waist, triple cuffs. Date: 1620

French Court Dress C1520
French court dress: paned & bombasted trunk-hose, cod- piece, doublet & jerkin with fur-collar & wings, gown, ruff, ermine cape & cut- fingered pumps. Date: mid 16th century

German Nobles Circa 1650
German nobles: bucket-top boots & boot hose tops or shoes with roses, ruff or lace falling collars, doublet with pointed front, side fastening breeches, Brandenburg coat. Date: 1650s

Gowns of 1830 / Robida
Gowns of 1830 according to a later source with gigot sleeves. One gown has a ruff & lace mancherons. One lady wears a fur tippet. Both have their hair in Apollo knots. Date: 1830

COSTUME FOR 1818-1819
Dress of 1818-1819 according to a later source. Man: greatcoat with velvet collar. Women: pelisse, spencer, white dresses ornamented with tucks, mancherons & flounces. Date: 1818 - 1819

6th Earl of Rutland
FRANCIS MANNERS 6TH EARL OF RUTLAND Also Baron Ross of Ham and Honourable Knight of the Garter. Date: 1578 - 1632

Green Spotted Cloak 1899
Pale green theatre cloak with high collar edged with white accordion pleated chiffon & trimmed with black lace applied in serpentine waves to the border. Date: 1899

Brown Tailor Made 1899
Brown tailor-made with open jacket bodice secured with crossed bands & buttons, tight sleeves with flared cuff, tight skirt flaring from the knee & swansdown ruff. Date: 1899

Purple Ensemble 1899
Open bodice, velvet revers, cuffs & trim, tight sleeves with slight puff at shoulder, skirt with lace ruff collar & cravat, gored skirt with tablier trim, velvet belt. Date: 1899

Fashions Early 1880S
Black mantle: lace, jet beads & passementerie. Blue dress: panniers, vandyked skirt, under-skirt with flounces at hem. Jacket body: frilled basques & shoulder puffs. Date: early 1880s

1st Earl of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire Date: 1552 - 1626

Walking Dress 1819
Lemon coloured pelisse, trimmed at hem, collar & cuffs with 2 narrow fluted full flounces; large pink bonnet, red Parisian reticule & Marine boots. Date: 1819

CHRISTIAN IV / 1577-1648
CHRISTIAN IV King of Denmark and Norway (1588 - 1648) Wearing a high ruff Date: 1577 - 1648

Philip Sidney (Anon)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) - writer, depicted wearing a remarkably large ruff even by Elizabethan standards !

Walking Dress 1805
London walking dress: white muslin gown & a lace edged, brown pelisse that fastens with gold clasps. Accessories: a fur muff, quizzing glass & Spanish hat with plumes. Date: 1805

Morning Dress 1801
Both gowns are probably of printed muslin - one white the other pink. Both ladies wear straw hats, one has a veil. The white gown has a ruff & is worn with a white spencer. Date: 1801

Afternoon Dress 1801
A yellow gown trimmed in blue & black with a ruff & matching turban & plume. A white gown worn with a red spencer & white ruff & feather headdress. Date: 1801

Russell of Thornhaugh
William, baron RUSSELL OF THORNHAUGH Military, in Ireland and the Netherlands Date: 1558 - 1613

Sir John Pakington
SIR JOHN PAKINGTON courtier, a favourite of queen Elizabeth I Date: 1549 - 1625

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