Skipper Collection

Churchill / Skipper / 1940
WINSTON CHURCHILL " Our Skipper"

Advert for Skippers Norwegian Bristling Sardines
Advert for Skippers Norwegian Bristling (or Brisling) Sardines, showing the lid of a can rolled back to reveal the delicious fish

Whitby skipper

A Whitby Skipper, Victorian period

Robertson Hare, actor, character portrait in glasses and cricket cap. John Robertson Hare, OBE (1891-1979) actor who established his career in the Aldwych farces

La Bateliere de Brienz (The Boatwoman of Brienz)
Elisabetha Grossmann (1795-1858), Swiss skipper who ferried tourists across the lake in Berne, Switzerland, and herself became a tourist attraction - La Bateliere de Brienz (The Boatwoman of Brienz)

Spotted skipper and painted skipper
Spotted skipper, Hesperilla ornata, and painted skipper, Hesperilla picta (Adorned and painted skippers, Hesperia ornata, Hesperia picta)

Western blue-banded forester and African giant skipper
Western blue-banded forester, Euphaedra eupalus (Nymphalis erithonius) 1, 2, and African giant skipper, Pyrrhochalcia iphis (Hesperia iphis) 3, 4, ventral and dorsal

Regal fritillary and fiery skipper butterfly
Regal fritillary butterfly, Speyeria idalia, female 1, 3, and male 2, and the fiery skipper, Hylephila phyleus 4, 5. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Atlantic saury, Scomberesox saurus saurus (Skipper pike, Esox saurus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C

Curtis British Entomology Plate 442
Lepidoptera: Hesperia actaeon = Thymelicus acteon (Lulworth Skipper) [Plant: Salsola kali (Prickly Glasswort)] Date: 1824-39

FALL / RETRIEVER / FLAT / 1963
CLAVERDON SKIPPER Owned by Jessel. Date: 1963

FALL / AIRDALES / 1953
CARNON KRESENT SKIPPER Owned by Cheppers. Date: 1953

The skipper of a small ferry boat, Marazion, Cornwall
The skipper of a small ferry boat waits for passengers on the slip at Marazion, in Mounts Bay, Cornwall. England. The boat is used at high water when the causeway to the mount is flooded

Chequered Skipper 2
CHEQUERED SKIPPER (number 11) Date: 1889

Chequered Skipper Date: 1845

The storm at sea
Some rough-looking sailors playing cards on their trading vessel. The losers vociferate violently, while the winners break out into a broad grin

Cowes - Stern Lady Skipper with her young female crew
Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire - Stern Lady Skipper with her young female crew. Date: 1901

European Halfbeak, Blunt-Headed Halfbeak, and Skipper
European Halfbeak (Hemiramphus europaeus), Blunt-Headed Halfbeak (Hemiramphus obtusus), and Skipper (Scomberesox saurus, also known as Atlantic Saury, Skopster, Mackarel Garrick and Haliou)

Atherina presbyter and Atherina boyeri
Atherina presbyter, also known as Silverside, Smelt and Sand Smelt, and the larger Atherina boyeri, also known as Big-Scale Sand Smelt and Boiers Atherine. Date: 1864

Worcestershire County Cricket Club side in the 1900s. The skipper, Harry K. Foster (1873-1950) (pictured second from right in middle row)

The crew of the America. Top left: Melvin Vaniman, chief engineer. Top right: M.F. Simon, chief navigating officer. Middle left: The crew, the skipper, Walter Wellman is in the centre

Poanes, broad grafs skipper butterfly
Illustration of a broad grafs skipper butterfly by John Abbot, Tab 307, Volume 16 from the Abbot Collection held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Library

The skipper out of a berth. Illustration shows Mark A. Hanna as an old sailor sitting on a box on the dock, smoking a pipe, and watching a ship labeled Ship of State sail out to sea

Sunset Skipper
The skipper of a ship, steering the capstan during a lovely sunset. Date: 1967

Elater (Click Beetle) and Elops Saurus

European Butterflies
A variety of butterflies on foliage including the chequered skipper (no 11) Date: 1889

Aberdyfi (Aberdovey), Wales - Motor Launch
The Motor Launch The Pride of the Midlands, bound for Aberdovey (now Aberdyfi). The three portraits above the photograph of the boat are of the Skipper, the Mate and the ships Engineer

Various Skippers
Pearl Skipper Five-Spotted Burnet Moth Large Skipper Green Forester Six-Spotted Burnet Moth

Four Skipper Moths
Grizzled Skipper Moth Dingy Skipper Chequered Skipper Small Skipper

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