Shell Collection (page 7)

Shell Advertisement
Shell Advertisment. Date: 1926

WW1 - Home Front - Naval Raid on Scarborough - shell damage on the lighthouse. Date: 1914

WW1 - New Zealand Anzac Troops loading ammunition, France. Date: circa 1916

Aviation Traders ATL-90 Accountant
The Prototype Aviation Traders Atl-90 Accountant at Southend Refuelling Date: 1957

Burnt-out shell of an early motor car, possibly photographed after an accident? Date: circa 1910s

Ruins of the State Armory, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA - Great Chelsea Fire of 12th April, 1908. Date: 1908

Last British Troops Leave India
Burmah-Shell Photographic News Service photograph: Last British Troops Leave India.One of two photographs of Somerset Light Infantry, last British troops to leave India, Bombay, 1948

From the Western Front To Willie with compliments 1916
Sergeant seen lying down beside a large shell bearing the message To Willie with compliments on the side. During WWI gunners often sent massages etched in chalk on shells. Date: 1916

WW1 Poster, Thank them with War Bonds
Poster, Thank them with War Bonds. 1918

Caravaggio (1571-1610). Supper at Emmaus (1601)
Baroque Art. Italy. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). Italian painter. Supper at Emmaus (1601). Oil on canvas. National Gallery. London. England. UK

WW2 poster, Gloster Aircraft National Savings Group. Our aim is one fighter per month, for the next three months. Join the group, win certificates, and help win the war. Save now for your future

Aerial view of Fedala (Mohammedia), Morocco
Aerial view of Fedala (Fedhala, now Mohammedia), Morocco, centre of the Moroccan oil industry, showing Vacuum and Shell bonding warehouses and petroleum storage tanks. Date: circa 1930

Cartoon, After the explosion, WW1
Cartoon, After the explosion. A naive new recruit in a trench on the Western Front comments that these shells break as soon as they hit the ground! Date: 1916

WW1 - The Battlefield of Neuve Chapelle (10th - 13th March, 1915) - British trenches under shell fire. Date: 1915

French art nouveau hair combs in enamel, shell, and gold by Paul Follot and Henri Vever.. Color plate from Charles Holmes Modern Design in Jewellery and Fans, published by the Studio 1902

Situation Shortly Vacant by Bairnsfather
Humours from the Front - No 32 Situation Shortly Vacant In an old-established house in France an opening will shortly occur for a young man

Women working in munitions factory, WW1
Women working in a munitions factory during the First World War. 1915

Commercially made German Trench Art lighter in the shape of a shell imprinted Nolly. Trench Art

Eugene Turpin, inventor of turpinite, WW1
Eugene Turpin, French inventor and chemist who in 1884, first discovered melinite (picric acid) which produced the worlds first explosive shells

Aircraft machine guns by G. H. Davis
The principal weapon in air fighting during the Second World War: aircraft machine guns. American, British, French, German and Italian machine guns, capable of firing 1000-1200 rounds per minute

African Woman with huge lip plates from Sarh (formerly Fort Archambault) - the third largest city in Chad, Africa. In Africa

East African Woman - Braided Hair, shell necklace
East African Woman with Braided Hair, shell necklace and extensive additional face and neck jewellery. Date: circa 1930s

Samoan Woman
Beautiful portrait photograph of a Samoan Woman in traditional (un)dress. Date: circa 1910

Pale pink roses on a shell-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

An Interlude, by Fortunino Matania
In a shell damaged French chateau, tired Allied officers rest pensively, listening to a British officer playing a piano and a French officer singing Date: 1917

Tolypeutes tricinctus, Brazilian three-banded armadillo
Specimen from The Natural History Museum, London

Thatcheria mirabilis, Japanese wonder shell
This spectacularly spiralling shellfish is a member of the Turrid family who catch their prey by harpooning them with a modified radula (tooth) and poisoning them with a nerve toxin

Calymene blumenbachii, trilobite model
Depicted here is a model of a Silurian-Devonian trilobite. Trilobites had a carapace, or shell. They were arthropods as crustaceans, spiders and insects are today

Projectiles and cartridges of German Paris Gun, WW1
Projectiles and cartridges of the German Paris Gun (also known as the Emperor William Gun), a long-range seige gun designed and manufactured by Krupp, used towards the end of the First World War

German Gotha G. V heavy bomber, WW1
A German Gotha G.V heavy bomber, introduced in 1917 and used during the latter part of the First World War, mostly for night bombing. Bombs can be seen attached to the undercarriage. 1917-1918

Heavy fighting during the battle for Pinwe, Burma
Heavy fighting during the battle for Pinwe on November 30th 1944 by units of the British 36th Division. Here Royal Artillery fire 25-pounders on Japanese positions in Pinwe

Shell-fire hitting a Battleship, Second World War, 1941
Illustration showing how a steeply plunging shell, dropping almost vertically from very long range, might penetrate a gun turret and explode the cordite magazine

Christmas card, Uncle Robin's Christmas Visit
Christmas card by Robert Dudley, Uncle Robin's Christmas Visit. Date: circa 1890s

Boiled egg with comic verse on a Christmas card
Boiled egg in an eggcup with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card Date: circa 1890s

German Easter card with chicks and eggshells. circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of an almond, open to reveal a rabbit. (2 of 2) circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a walnut. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Cherub in a garden on a Spanish greetings card
Cherub in a garden with roses, doves, a swan and a fountain on a Spanish greetings card cut in the shape of a shell. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Shell, coral and ferns on a Christmas card, with decorative silver and white border. Date: circa 1890s

Fairy with a shell-shaped car on an Easter postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Garden scene with robins and flowers on a Christmas card
Garden scene with robins, flowers, trees and water spouts on a Christmas card with white and gold ornate edging. circa 1890s

Dancing people on a Christmas card, decorated with flowers, trees and fountains. Date: circa 1890s

Decorative Christmas card with fruit and flowers, and a figure in a turban in the middle. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a birds egg. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a walnut, open to reveal a kitten. (2 of 2) circa 1890s

Shell Workers, by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, WW1
Shell Workers, painting by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, First World War. 1918

Boiled egg in an eggcup on a cutout New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Robin hatching from egg on a New Year card
Robin hatching from a egg with holly in its beak on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

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