Shell Collection (page 8)

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

Handmade New Year card in the shape of nuts, which opens to reveal a seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade Christmas card in the shape of nuts, which opens to reveal a seasonal greeting. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a shrimp
Handmade Christmas card in the shape of a shrimp, which comes out of its shell to reveal a seasonal greeting. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Girl in boat with swans on a German greetings card
Girl in a boat drawn by four swans on a German greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Two yellow chicks on a Christmas card
Two newly hatched yellow chicks on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Hydatina physis, rose-petal bubble shell
Watercolour 399 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Kallee dere, from the Watling Collection

Small advertisements on satin cloth
Small advertisements printed on a yellow satin cloth duster, including Michelin, Shell, Mobiloil, Overland, Buick, Ford, Wolseley, Harley Davidson, Pommery Champagne, Royal Italian Circus

Indian factory workers making munitions, WW1: shell making
" How India is doing her bit at home: a munitions factory in the Great Dependency. Shell-making: a general view of the complicated machinery which the Indians handle most deftly." 1915

Indian factory workers making munitions, 1915
" How India is doing her bit at home: a munitions factory in the Great Dependency." Cartridge and shell making in India during World War One by native Indians, for use by the British. 1915

Women Munitions Workers Keighley WW1
On 23rd September 1916, the West Riding Volunteer Regiment organised a flag day and procession with marching bands. It included an attractive tableaux or float by the Keighley National Shell Factory

Women WW1 Munitions Woolwich Arsenal
Interior of the Shell Factory at Woolwich Arsenal showing women workers and some men (supervisors?). The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, employed around 80, 000 people during the first World War

People on a trip in two horse-drawn carriages, with a Shell Petroleum sign in the background. circa 1930s

Poster, Rhodesian and Nyasaland Airways Limited. 20th century

Dentist - The Tooth Drawer. circa 19th century

Two frogs fighting over a snail on a Christmas card -- Heads I win, tails you lose. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Mappin Brothers solid silver items 1895
Selection of decorative items available from Mappin Brothers in Regent Street. 1895

Advert for Mappin & Webb silver items 1892
Selection of silver sterling work from Mappin & Webb, fluted monteith salt cellars and spoons, renaissance fruit spoon and sifter, sugar basin and sifter, Louis XIV period, richly chased and pierced

Little boy and girl riding in balloon on a birthday card
Little boy and girl riding in a balloon on a birthday card. The balloon is made from an oval egg, and the basket is made from a birds nest. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Enigma, WW1
Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916

Goddess by Youthlines corselette, 1965
Advertisement for Goddess by Youthlines featuring a corselette of nylon lace and Lycra modelled by a girl arising from the sea on an oyster shell in the manner of Botticellis Venus. Date: 1965

Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophores collected from a bloom in the SW Approaches to the English Channel in June 2004. Date: 2004

Cartoon, Epiphany 1916, WW1
Cartoon, Epiphany 1916, illustrating a contemporary version of a childrens song about the Three Kings. Here, the three kings are from Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria

Gunners sheltering during a bombardment, 1917, Matania
With our artist on the Western Front - No II. New Series. Front cover of The Sphere featuring the first of a new set of drawings done by the magazines special artist during his latest visit to

German soldiers surrender at Thiepval, 1916
Victors and vanquished: British infantry advancing on Thiepval, Somme region, in September 1916 allow surrendering Germans to pass through their ranks unregarded

Royal Ordnance Factory, Patricroft, Lancashire
Royal Ordnance Factory, Patricroft, Eccles, near Manchester, Lancashire, England. Showing men manufacturing Canons - World War One - The sign reads

A selection of British Shells Date: circa 1920s

ITALY. Pompeii. Frescoes in the House of Venus in the Shell (CasadellaVenerein Conchiglia). Roman art. Early Empire. Fresco

Barbed wire party freeze under enemy star shell, WW1
A detachment of British soldiers, busy setting up barbed wire defences freeze momentarily as the area is lit up by an enemy star-shell

British 4 5 Howitzer shell case base - Army Service cap
A British 4.5 Howitzer shell case base made into an Army Service cap with the badge and shoulder title of the Royal Field Artillery. Trench Art

WWII German 20 mm shell case base
A 2nd World War German 20 mm. shell case base, dated 1940, with a striker made from a rifle bullet attached. Trench Art

18 pounder shell case - badge of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers
18 pounder shell case, base dated 30.11.16, made into a cap with the badge of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and General Service buttons to cap band. Trench Art

A French 75 mm shell case base
A French 75 mm. shell case base made into a British Army Other Ranks cap with Officers buttons of the Essex Regiment attached. Trench Art

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