Spoof Collection

His Broadcast Masters Voice by George Studdy
A spoof on the famous His Masters Voice logo featuring a dog listening to a gramophone; Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy

Theatre / Extravaganza
FRANKENSTEIN a spoof version of Mary Shelleys novel: the extravaganza Frankenstein; or, The Model Man, at the Adelphi Theatre

Music cover, Pas de Quatre, Faust Up To Date
Music cover, Pas de Quatre, invented and arranged by John d Auban from Faust Up To Date, a burlesque parody of Gounods opera Faust, performed at The Gaiety Theatre, London, composed by Meyer Lutz

Diana Vaughan
DIANA VAUGHAN, the American ex-satanist who purportedly revealed the vile secrets of freemasonry : in fact it was all a spoof on the Catholics, and she was Taxils typist

Cartoon, O'er Neilson's Tomb -- lawyers and others throw up their hats in jubilation. A parody of a popular ballad, O'er Nelson's Tomb, written by the tenor John Braham

A Dream of the Cup Final, after visiting the Futurist exhibition. The FA Cup final between Aston Villa and Huddersfield done in the style of Futurism by cartoonist Rip in The Bystander

Joke notice, Lost Hours
Joke notice, Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, Two Golden Hours, each set with Sixty Diamond Minutes. No Reward is offered, for they are Lost For Ever. early 19th century

St Valentines Day bank note from the Bank of Love, Temple of Hymen, promising to pay the entire love of the suppliant, signed by the Governor of the bank, Cupid. Date: 1867

Christmas cheque from the Happiness Bank (postcard), delivered by Santa Claus. Date: circa 1900s

Advert for Shuck Maclean and Co Ltd, printing ink manufacturers. The Secretary of the Spoof Museum - Antediluvian Art Section - writes: Replying to your enquiry

Bell 209 Cobra N209J (given the spoof serial 64-7015). The private venture prototype of the Huey-Cobra, built by Bell while the US Army was wasting time and money on the Lockheed AH-65 Cheyenne

FRANKENSTEIN / BROUGH
FRANKENSTEIN a spoof version of Mary Shelleys novel: the extravaganza Frankenstein; or, The Model Man, at the Adelphi Theatre Date: first published 1818

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Good Wishes, paying to all good friends 366 Happy Days, from Mr and Mrs Stuart of Kempton Drive, Ilfracombe. Date: 1931

Cheque from the Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Bank, Father Christmas House, 1 Yuletide, Greenland, from Colin Cruttenden in the Print Department, decorated with holly and a pudding. Date: 1983

Christmas cheque from the Santa Claus Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, sending ten thousand kind greetings from N A Aplin to Miss Gerty Doggett. Date: 1891

Victorian Spoof Joke 1880s New Year Weatherly
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New Year Season Ticket 1889, Health and Prosperity Line -- red cover, with gold lettering, With Greetings for the Season, Available to All. (2 of 2) Date: 1889

First Class Contract, spoof ticket, 25 December, available by all routes to Prosperity, Health and Happiness. Date: circa 1880s

Caricature of Ambrose Maynard, theatrical agent, depicted as a parody of Shakespeare. 1883

Cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited
Christmas cheque from the Bank of Health and Happiness Unlimited, paying to all true friends 365 happy days, from Mr and Mrs Kittridge of Bridge Street, Cambridge. Date: circa 1920s

Cheque from the Bank of Friendship Unlimited, Goodwill Square Branch, with one thousand kind wishes from Ernestine Edgcumbe to Ernest Cust. circa 1890s

George Chirgwin
George H Chirgwin, 1854 - 1922. Music hall entertainer, known as the White-Eyed Musical Moke or the White- Eyed Kaffir. Pictured here in very strange Highlands inspired stage costume including a

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Friendship (postcard), from Father Christmas, Chief Cashier. Date: 1911

Cheque from the Bank of Good Fortune, Prosperity Branch (postcard), paying the sum of 365 happy days on someones birthday. Date: circa 1890s

St Valentines Day bank note from the Bank of Loveland
St Valentines Day bank note (postcard) from the Bank of Loveland, promising to pay ten kisses on demand. Date: circa 1890s

Members Ticket, Froth Blowers & Beer Shifters
Members Ticket, Amalgamated Society of Froth Blowers & Beer Shifters. 1929

Christmas and New Year telegram addressed to Sallie, with a greetings verse. 1890

St Valentines Day bank note from Lovers Banking Company
St Valentines Day bank note from the Lovers Banking Company, Temple of Hymen, promising to pay the entire love of the suppliant, signed by the Governor of the bank, Cupid. Date: circa 1860s

St Valentines Day bank note from the Bank of Love, Temple of Hymen, promising to pay the entire love of the suppliant, signed by the Governor of the bank, Cupid. 1860s

Christmas cheque from the Greeting Banking Co, Merry Lane Branch, for ten thousand kind greetings. Date: circa 1900s

Christmas cheque from the Bank of Good Cheer, Pudding Lane Branch, with five thousand welcomes to Newport from Thomas Howells to Mrs Box. Date: 1888

Christmas cheque, with turkey, sausages and pudding
Christmas cheque from the United Kingdom of Great Blessings and Joyland, decorated with a turkey, sausages and pudding. Date: 1924

Cheque from the Christmas Bank of Prosperity, to Mr and Mrs Hancock from R and L Gunning. Date: 1934

Christmas cheque book greetings, from the Good Old Gold Christmas Banking Co Unlimited, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas cheque book from the Bank of Prosperity
Christmas cheque book greetings from the Bank of Prosperity, with a punning verse. Date: circa 1890s

Spoof missing notice, anti-suffrage satire -- Missing, A Young Lady. Date: circa 1910

WW1 - Restive allies - The central powers not to happy
WW1 - A comedic scenerio depicting Austrias and Turkeys roles in the war as part of the central power. The illustration represents the German Kaiser as an Ancient Roman in his chariot

Suffragette Concert House of commons. A Spoof announcement of A Grand Members Concert which will Shortly be given in the House of Commons

Suffragette Fancy Dress Ball Pankhurst. A Spoof programme announcing a Fancy Dress Ball which may shortly be held in the House of Commons Mrs Pankhurst will be forcibly dressed as OPHELIA

Suffragette Women s-Up-The-Political Union. A Spoof programme for a Grand Entertainment by the Womens-up-the-pol-itical Union and Society of Suffering Pets

The Zep That Bill Built
A poetic spoof of the rhyme, The House that Jack Built, telling the tale of a zeppelin built by the Germans and its eventual sinking by the British. Date: 1915

Sheet music cover, Love Like a Star Dear Shall Shine on our Way. A comic duet sung nightly by Miss Lottie Venne (1852-1928) and M Marius, in Alfred Lees burlesque, The Lying Dutchman

Spoof postcard on the Colchester Native Oyster Beds ! Date: circa 1910s

WWI - Propaganda postcard - Kaisers dream bubbles burst
WWI - Propaganda postcard - The German Kaisers dream bubbles are popping before his eyes. By this point however (late 1914)

The Great Aerial Navigator, or Atmospheric Machine! An article with a detailed diagram showing an aerial machine claimed to be capable of transportation to India and China in the space of five days

Ww1 Cartoon / Don Quixote
Sir Edward Grey as Don Quixote and Vittorio Emanuele as Sancho Panza (the former persuaded the latter to join the Allies)

Offenbach / Belle Helene
Brasseur as Menelas, and Simon-Girard as Helene, in this spoof on the heroes and divinities of Ancient Greece

Queen Victoria is offered a new crown
New crowns for old ones! Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers Queen Victoria the imperial crown of India, in a spoof cartoon on an Arabian Nights tale (Aladdins new lamps for old)

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