Shell Collection (page 14)

Garden scene with flowers on a greetings card
Garden scene with flowers, water spouts and a statue in a niche on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Sailing ship and lightship on a Christmas card
Sailing ship and lightship in the moonlight on a Christmas card, with ornate embossing around the edges. Date: circa 1890s

Sailing boat and lightship on a New Year card, with ornate embossing around the edges. Date: circa 1890s

Fairies in a boat drawn by swans on a greetings card
Five fairies in a boat made from a shell, drawn by swans on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Shells and coral on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Shell and coral on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Shells, coral and flowers on a Christmas card
Shells, coral and flowers on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Little boy riding pennyfarthing bicycle on a birthday card
Little boy riding a pennyfarthing bicycle on a birthday card. The wheels are made from two oval eggs. Date: circa 1890s

People drinking water on a New Year card
People drinking water from the Fountain of Happiness on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Lyric Theatre after a fire, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
Lyric Theatre after a fire which destroyed it on 24 February 1907, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. The icicles may be the result of attempts by firefighters to put the fire out with hoses during freezing

Shells and seaweed on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Shells and pine branches on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two swans on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Hen and chicks on an Easter card
Hen and chicks on an egg-shaped Easter card. circa 1890s

Disco trouser suit, 1965
For the young individualist - a disco trouser suit in pitch black rayon Tricel - shell top with polka dots partners with sassy trumpet trews

Cats and birds on a Christmas card. Some of the birds are just hatching out of their shells. 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, Their munitions factories, WW1
Cartoon, Their munitions factories. An Italian soldier carries a large bowl of shells, made to look like large macaroni. Date: 1916

Nautilus sp
Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951). Watercolour on paper. Alice Woodward was taught science and illustration by her father Henry Woodward

Hans Sloanes nautilus shell
Sir Hans Sloane is perhaps the most important collector ever. His huge collection forms the core of both the British Museum and the Natural History Museum

Shell and crab by Olga Makrushenko
Illustration (mixed media) by Olga Makrushenko

Cartoon, In the trench, WW1
Cartoon, In the trench, showing four French soldiers in a trench on the Western Front at night, sharing pieces of a New Year cake, or Galette. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Boche intellectuals, WW1
Cartoon, Boche intellectuals, showing a variety of German boffins doing their work. Date: 1916

Syracosphaera anthos
Coccosphere from the Western Mediterranean. False coloured to show the shell is formed of inner and outer layers of coccoliths with very different structure

Shell Fence, St Petersburg, Florida, USA. It was built by Owen Albright (originally from Lancashire, UK) outside his home as a roadside attraction and curiosity

The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1
America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a yellow duckling just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

A Mere Matter of Form by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
Distressing mistake of the cook recently released from a munition factory. A familys cook absent-mindedly shapes the pudding for that day into a shell, much to the shock and panic of her employers

Lobster and seaweed
A lobster surrounded by seaweed. Date: circa 1920s

Crab and seaweed
A crab surrounded by seaweed. Date: circa 1920s

Pigeons - Three Nuns with varied colourations, Fancy Breed
A portrait of three Nuns with varied colourations standing in their pigeon coop. The Nun is a breed of fancy pigeon, also known as the Dutch Shell Pigeon

Ammunition Supply By Air
The Last Days of Fighting: Ammunition-Supply By Air Ammunition is dropped from the air, by parachute, from a British biplane to keep troops in the front line supplied

WW1 - Eastern Front - Dinner for Austrian soldiers delivered
WW1 - Eastern Front - Austrian soldiers crawl to deliver rations to soldiers in shallow trenches whilst under Russian shell-fire. Date: 1915

Jacobine shell or scallop, Pectens or Escallops.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Embossed horn shell, Globosa or Tun.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)

Decorative arrangement of colorful shells including cowrie, mitra, Peruvian olive and terebellum.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Decorative arrangement of seven shells including princely purple, ricinula, strombus, etc.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Variety of molluscs including terebratula, pearly fresh water mussel, and jingle shells.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Tropical shells including Colombella, Buccinum, Voluta, Terebra, Conus imperialis and Harpa.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Variety of colorful shells including Cardium, Etheria, Tridacna and Chama shells.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Variety of colorful tropical helix shells.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), 1849

Colorful crimson and black, pink and ivory Bulimus shells.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), 1849

Colorful Murex, Nerinaea, Cerithium, Turbinella, Cancellaria and Fusus shells.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Variety of tropical shells including Patella, Fissurella, Calyptraea, Pileopsis, Dentalium.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Variety of scallop and clam shells: Galathea, Cyrena, Cyclas and Astarte.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Orange flag shell or orange-striped volute, Voluta arausiaca.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

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