Shells Collection (page 6)

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

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

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

Cats and birds on a Christmas card. Some of the birds are just hatching out of their shells. circa 1890s

Cartoon, A delivery mistake, WW1
Cartoon, a delivery mistake. A wooden crate supposedly containing 150 shells for the Western Front is found to contain a large, fashionable hat. Date: 1917

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

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

Japan - Creating a miniature Bonseki landscape
Japan - Bonseki - the ancient Japanese art of creating miniature landscapes on black lacquer trays using white sand, pebbles, and small rocks

Men training on Doniford Gun Park Range, Somerset, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Date: late 1930s

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

Supply of shells on the Western Front, WW1
A supply of shells on the Western Front, WW1. Date: 1914-1918

WW1 - Zeppelins raid over Paris, France, 1915
WW1 - A failed night raid attack over Paris, where enemy airships are under attack from shells and searchlights from below

WW1 - Gas attacks near Canadian lines, October 1916
WW1 - Exploding gas shells used by the Germans near the Canadian front line in Guillemont, France, October 1916. Date: 1916

Extinct fossil fish Thryssops, and shells Patella papyracea, Inoceramus gryphoides.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany

Oyster shucker of Le Havre in a low bonnet decorated with lace only to the ears.. Handcolored fashion plate illustration from Louis-Marie Lantes Costumes des femmes du Pays de Caux, 1827/1885

South Africa - De Beers Workshop - Siege of Kimberley, Kimbe
De Beers Workshop - Siege of Kimberley, Kimberley, near Bloemfontein, Frances Baard, Northern Cape, South Africa. Making shells for Long Cecil - Siege of Kimberley Date: 1900

Schoolboys help in shell making
Boys of the Acton and Chiswick Polytechnic School spending a holiday making shell caps at an engineering works at Willesden during the First World War. Date: 1915

Messrs Kynochs War Munition Factory
A page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News with pictures reporting on the work being done at Kynochs war munitions factory at Witton, Birmingham. Date: 1915

WW1 - Titled Women Munitions Workers
The first contingent of Titled Society ladies who volunteered to work for Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim as shell makers

WW1 - French Women working in Munitions Factory Date: 1916

Fletcher Lake, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA
View of Fletcher Lake, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA, with a border of seashells. Date: circa 1912

Women and dogs outside a shop, France
Women and dogs outside a shop in France. Date: circa 1910s

Piles of oyster shells, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Piles of oyster shells at Hampton, Virginia, USA, with boats in the foreground. Date: circa 1905

They ve evidently seen me by Bruce Bairnsfather
They ve evidently seen me. A British soldier, precariously peering out the top of a chimney pot, binoculars in hand, is narrowly missed by an enemy shell

Earmuff with Moche warrior. Gold, shells, turquoises and lapis lazuli. 330-500 B.C. Moche or Mochica Art. Jewelry. PERU. Lima. Peruvian Gold Museum

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoises graze (Agrionemys horsfieldii). near Karahoudan village - foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Testudo - Spring - April

Beach covered with sea shells. Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk - Turkmenistan. April

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise carapace from above (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

A large sea-shell, washed ashore on a beach of volcanic Tioman Island, . 30 km east off peninsula Malaysia in South China Sea; evening in June

A nocturnal Hermit Crab (unidentified) rummages in rainforest floor. Tioman Island, Malaysia; June

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - active during day in a desert (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - burrows for shelter in the soil - for the night (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Shells & pebbles on beach. Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - desert (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe Tortoise - emerges from an overnight shelter under bushes (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Horsfields Tortoise - Testudo - April

Steppe Tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - desert - sand and seashell pebbles - Turkmenistan. Horsfields Tortoise - Testudo - April

Munitions Girl by Helen McKie
Look at the girls who REALLY work To strafe the German and the Turk - The girls who slave at making shells And scorn the screeds of H. G

From the Balloon Observers Training Manual, WW1 cartoon
" All apparently natural features should be considered in relation to the general nature of the landscape, as the appearance of a hedge or even a solitary tree may be the cause of the discovery

Through Mud to Victory by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Private 90045 Gerrard, after three-quarters of a mile of this, sincerely hopes it won t be a dud. A private British soldier struggles through the mud

Gunners working through German gas attack by Matania
A storm of poison gas shells breaking over a British battery of 18 pounders, showing the gunners working to serve their guns while wearing gas masks. Date: 1918

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