Shell Collection (page 11)

Crystallized Fruit
Artistic Stands containing Crystallized Fruit. circa 1890

Ducklings and Tortoise
Unusual Friends - Ducklings and Tortoise. 1950s

Kittens and Tortoise
Unusual Friends - Kittens and Tortoise. 1950s

Yorkie and Tortoise
Unusual Friends - Yorkie (Yorkshire Terrier) and Tortoise. 1950s

Susi - with fishing net and shells. 1950s

Town Hall, Ladysmith, Natal Province, South Africa. Damage can be seen to the clock tower from a wartime shell which did not explode (1899). Date: circa 1905

San Francisco Earthquake - St. Francis Hotel, Dewey Monument
San Francisco Earthquake, California, USA - 18th April 1906 - the gutted shell (apparently a very attractive interior) of the St

Women munition-makers 1916
Women needed by the hundred thousands to work in munitions factories, while the men were at War fighting. Showing women been trained at Battersea Polytechnic, London. Date: 1916

San Sebastian, Basque Region, Spain - Paseo de la Concha. Date: 1904

Baltimore, Maryland, USA - Unloading Oysters. Set within an oyster shell border.. Date: 1910

Wills cigarette card - Razor shell. Date: circa 1935

WW1 Poster, Feed the Guns with War Bonds
Poster, Feed the Guns with War Bonds and Help to End the War. circa 1918

New Year card in the shape of an oyster shell (open), with ships in a harbour. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas and New Year card in the shape of a shell (open), with a seasonal verse and a seascape with crescent moon. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a pink shell (closed). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a shell (open), with a seasonal verse and a seascape with sailing boats. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of an orange shell (closed). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Eggcup stand with eggs on a cutout Christmas card
Eggcup stand with eggs and spoons on a cutout Christmas card -- Health, Happiness, Prosperity, Lays for the Season. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with newly hatched chicks. 1950s

Primroses on a shell-shaped Christmas card. circa 1890s

Oyster on a plate on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of an oval shell (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Frog and stork on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Stork on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Sailing boat on a shell-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Little girl on a shell-shaped greetings card
Little girl with a spade on a shell-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Snow scene on a shell-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Little boy on a shell-shaped greetings card
Little boy in a sailor suit on a shell-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink roses on a shell-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Green foliage in a shell-shaped Christmas card. circa 1890s

Forgetmenots on a shell-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Chick hatching on a cutout New Year card
Chick hatching from an egg on a cutout New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Chick hatching on a cutout Christmas card
Chick hatching from an egg on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Chick in an eggcup on a cutout New Year card
Chick emerging from an egg in an eggcup on a cutout New Year card. circa 1890s

Chick in an eggcup on a cutout Easter card
Chick emerging from an egg in an eggcup on a cutout Easter card. Date: circa 1890s

Chick in an eggcup on a cutout Christmas card
Chick emerging from an egg in an eggcup on a cutout Christmas card. circa 1890s

Boy and girl with toys on a Victorian scrap. He is riding a horse which is breaking through a large eggshell; she is holding a doll. Date: circa 1890s

Dogs in containers on eight Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Men in munitions factory, WW1
Cartoon, two men working in a French munitions factory. One man comments to his colleague: Be careful with that shell, it could be the one that avenges your brother. Date: 1917

Little boy eating coconut, Thailand
Little boy eating a piece of coconut, Thailand. Date: circa 1970s

Testing for flaws in the sound, Creusot works, France 1915
Every shell was tested for flaws by the sound, being hammered, in the background a man seen weighing each shell, in order to ensure its nanswering to the exact regulation weight

HMS Marlborough - Lowering a 13. 5 inch shell into shell room
HMS Marlborough - Carefully lowering a 13.5 inch shell into the shell room. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

HMS Marlborough - 13. 5 inch shell being hoisted aboard
HMS Marlborough - 13.5 inch shell being hoisted aboard. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

Horseguards Parade, London - Cadiz Memorial - a French mortar in the style of a Chinese dragon captured at the battle of Salamanca - presented by Spain to mark the lifting of the siege of Cadiz in

Illustration, Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Illustration (possibly the frontispiece), Mary Mary Quite Contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Date: 1895

American Superfortresses bombing Burma, WW2
American 20th US Bomber Command Superfortresses bombing a Japanese supply depot near Rangoon, Burma, in March 1945 during the Second World War. Date: 1945

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