Smoking Collection (page 21)

Six men playing cards at a table in the street
Six men playing a game of cards at a table in the street

Turkish men on Crete smoking a Nargile pipe
Turkish Cretan men smoking a Nargile pipe

Bosnia Herzegovina - Trebinje. A group of Muslim Carpet and Textile sellers - two are seated and smoking a Hookah Pipe

Bosnian Couple in traditional costume

A Sadhu smoking a remarkable pipe, India
A Sadhu (Indian ascetic holy man) smoking a remarkable curvy pipe

Two Turkish peasants playing Backgammon at an outdoor coffee house

Driving two horses down a snowy lane
A farmer sits side-saddle as he rides/drives two working carthorses down a country lane in the middle of winter. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Old man in traditional costume - Albania - amking a cigarette using a cigarette holder

Gabon - Africa - Woman with Scarification
A Woman from Sibiti, Gabon - part of the Bakota (or Kota) - a Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of the country

Christmas truce 1914
British and German soldiers fraternising on Christmas Day, 1914 during the famous Christmas truce

The Cigarette by Lewis Baumer
Colour illustration by Lewis Baumer showing a sophisticated flapper girl smoking a cigarette

WWI - German Lady wearing a uniform
An unusual photographic postcard depicting a young German woman wearing an ill-fitting uniform, possibly belonging to her boyfriend?

Two sharply-dressed black american men
A marvellous postcard photograph of two young black men in early 1930s New York in sharp suits and smoking cigarettes, obviously having made a bit of money

Business Meeting / 1960S
A board meeting takes place. A group of men sit around the board table smoking and discussing various issues

Nicolas Chauvin / Soldier
NICOLAS CHAUVIN French soldier, legendary for his exaggerated patriotic enthusiasm

Boys Racing Toy Boats
Two small boys race their toy yachts in a country stream. A thatched cottage with smoking chimney is in the background

Evening Dress / Men C. 1900
Cigar smoking gentleman in a black tail-coat & trousers, white waistcoat, bowtie & gloves, top hat & leather pumps. A large gardenia graces his buttonhole

Irish Crofter
An old Irish crofter, leaning on his walking stick and smoking his pipe outside his cottage with his barefoot granddaughter

3rd Class Carriage / 1857
A Parliamentary Train. The interior of a packed third class carriage

Viennese Cafe Circa 1900
People talking, laughing and drinking in the busy Cafe Rouacher in Vienna

Arriving at Restaurant
A monocled gent guides two ladies to their table in a fashionable restaurant, past another monocled gent in dinner jacket with two ladies

Charles Darwin as a tree-climbing anthropoid
Charles Darwin depicted as a tree-climbing anthropoid

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace. This poster by theatrical artist Albert Morrow advertises Wallaces detective thriller of 1905

Soldiers smoking and relaxing, WW1. 1914-1918

La France Maritime - Naval Infantry (everyday uniform). 19th century

French Railway Alphabet - V for Vagons (carriages). 19th century

The man who won the lottery... I have arrived"
The man who won the lottery... " I have arrived" and the ladies swarm around delighted! Date: circa 1908

The Fascinating Mr. Vanderbilt by Alfred Sutro (7 August 1863 11 September 1933). First produced in England at the Garrick Theatre, on 26th April 1906

Fads and Fancies revue by Joseph Hayman, with music by Herman Darewski, presented by Harry Day. First produced at the New Cross Empire on 18th October 1915

Sea-suits for sunning and swimming 1930
Women models relaxing with the latest beach pyjamas, (left model), Distinctly nautical air, and is made of sponge cloth and cotton in natural colours with wavy stripes, from Army and Navy Stores

Dont Argue revue by George Campbell and Allan Grey. First produced at the Willesden Hippodrome on 23rd August 1915. Dave Harris Ltd. Presents. The reverse is blank

Kensitas advertisement, 1929
Advertisement for Kensitas cigarettes featuring a footman in elaborate uniform taking his employers small dog for a walk while enjoying a sneaky ciggie! 1929

Inspiration by H. M. Bateman
" Why, thats the very thing" ! A rather large and curvaceous 1920s lady contemplates a fashion magazine featuring the slim and sinuous fashions of the decade. Date: 1929

Couple on holiday stroll along the promenade at Felixstowe, Suffolk. The badges on his jacket hint that perhaps he is a railwayman

Dapper young gent on Seafront at Littlehampton - Sunny Snaps
Dapper young gent on Seafront at Littlehampton, West Sussex - Sunny Snaps Date: 1933

The Dairymaids by Alexander M. Thompson & Robert Courtneidge
The Dairymaids by Alexander M. Thompson (9 May 1861- 25 March 1948)and Robert Courtneidge (29 June 1859 - 06 April 1939), with music by Paul Rubens and Arthur Frank Tours

The Cuckoo by Charles E. Brookfield (19 May 1857 20 October 1913) adapted from Decore by H. Meilhac (Theatre des Varietes, Paris, 27th January 1888)

Hugh Wakefield by Giuseppe Amisani
Portrait of English actor Hugh Wakefield (1888-1971), possessing, according to The Sketch in which this painting was reproduced, a genius for the portrayal of inoffensive inebriates

Steamer Puritan of the Fall River Line, Massachusetts, USA
Quarter Deck or Smoking Room of the Steamer Puritan of the Fall River Line, Massachusetts, USA, showing the stairway leading to the Grand Saloon. Date: circa 1900

Dorothy Grimston in The Golden Silence
Dorothy Grimston (1880-1962), actress daughter of Madge Kendall, pictured in The Golden Silence playing at the Garrick Theatre in 1903

A railway smoke catcher
Impression of a chimney designed to extract bothersome smoke from stationery steam engines in use at a station in Chicago. Date: 1932

WW1 - Silhouette - A German soldier returning from the war
WW1 - Silhouette - A (rather care-worn) German soldier returning from the war, greeting his wife and children (see 111211111). Date: circa 1918

Sailmaker at work, Penzance, Cornwall
An elderly sailmaker (Arthur Willoughby), working in the traditional way in Penzance, Cornwall. circa early 1980s

Stable grooms with horses, Porlock, Somerset. Date: circa 1960s

English Packet Boat passes Stromboli
An English Packet Boat passes Stromboli, a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy

Cocktail Time
A group of fashionably-dressed couples at Deauville, Normandy enjoy cocktails and cigarettes. 1928

The Right Cigarette - In the Right Company
" Only one cigarette could have inspired Rilette to draw this idyllic scene. Can you guess its name?" 1928

Aertex pyjamas
Woman wearing aertex pyjamas, made from artificial silk and cotton. 1927

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