Storks Collection

Rene Paul Fonck, leading French fighter ace
Rene Paul Fonck (1894-1953), leading French fighter ace and his SPADs VII, which he flew as a member of the Escadrille SPA 103, part of the famous Groupe de Chasse 12, the Storks

Stork-powered baby transport! Date: circa 1910s

Comic postcard, Boy reading Home Doctor book Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, two storks on a roof Date: 20th century

Congratulations card, Stork on her nest
Congratulations card for arrival of new baby, showing a stork on her nest. 20th century

Musky storks bill, Erodium moschatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Long-beaked storks bill and ragwort
Long-beaked storks bill, Erodium botrys, and bitterweed or ragwort, Ambrosia artemisiaefolia. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Storks bill, Erodium cicutarium
Le Bec de Grue a fleurs saffrantes. Storks bill, Erodium cicutarium. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

Stork with baby in blue ribbons on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Stork with baby in pink on its back on a greetings postcard
Stork with baby in pink bonnet on its back on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Stork with baby riding on its back on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Stork with two babies on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Stork with baby in pram on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

The Storks - Hans Andersens Fairy tale. Scene from The Storks published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: Mabel Lucie Attwell circa 1912

OLD PUB SIGNS (PLATE 5)
Various old pub signs: Spinning Sow, Two Storks, The Complete Angler, Help Me Through This World, Crooked Billet. (plate 5 in series)

VENEZUELA / ORINOCO 1894
Orinoco river: with pink flamingoes and lush vegetation Date: 1894

PARIS ZOO - BIRDS
JARDIN DACCLIMATATION, PARIS storks, peacocks and pelicans in the great Basse-cour Date: circa 1850

Two Storks resting by Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795). Date: circa 1770s

Constantine, Algeria - a stork nest on Perregaux Street
Constantine, Algeria - a pair of storks nest on the top of a brick building on Perregaux Street (Rue Perregaux), while groups of people pass below. circa 1910s

Japanese art postcard - Stork in flight beneath the moon Date: circa 1909

Martial Eagle - attacking White Stork - the fight lasted more than an hour but finally the Eagle was victorious (Polemaetus bellicosus)

Storks Nest - On a Chimney in Heidelberg, Germany
Storks Nest - On a Chimney in Heidelberg in the State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Date: circa 1910s

Arrival of the storks to their nest - Strasbourg (now in Alsace, France, then in Germany). Date: circa 1905

The storks lay a precious egg in their nest - Strasbourg (now in Alsace, France, then in Germany). Date: circa 1905

Frog and stork on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Stork on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Babies and storks on five Victorian scraps
Babies and storks (and a postman) on five Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Japanese art postcard - Golden bird perched in blossom tree Date: circa 1909

Zoological Misfitz - The Complete Angler. early 20th century

Victoria Opens Albert Hl
Queen Victoria opens the Royal Albert Hall of arts and sciences

Birds and flowers on a circular Christmas card with an oriental plate pattern. Date: circa 1890s

Dog, stork on nest and moonlight scene on a Christmas card
A little dog, a stork on its nest on a roof, and a moonlight scene with water on a Christmas card -- all part of a trompe l oeil assembly of three pictures pinned to a wooden board. Date: circa 1890s

Stork with basket on an audible good luck card (German). Date: circa 1890s

WW1 - Guynemer with proud relatives at his home in Compiegne
WW1 - Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (1894 - 1917), a top fighter ace, Lieutenant, Captain and Commander of the Storks Squadron for France during World War I

WW1 - Guynemer gets his Captains stripes, 3rd March 1917
WW1 - Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (1894 -1917) was a top air fighter for France during World War I. He became an ace by his fifth victory in February 1916

WW1 - Lieu Guynemer and Capitaine Brocard after 5th Victory
WW1 - Lieutenant Georges-Marie Guynemer (1894-1917) and Capitaine Felix Antonin Brocard commander of Escadrille N.3 (Storks)

Stork on the dole - falling birth rate in the 1920s
On the Dole! by David Wilson. Cartoon showing a stork feeling rather unemployed as he sits on a chimney pot above the roof tops of a snow covered town

Marabou Stork - At sunset (Leptoptilos crumeniferus). Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa

Japanese geishas & parasol
Elegant Japanese geishas under a parasol with storks flying over. Artist: Raphael Kirchner Date: circa 1901

LA Govey. Peering at storks
A Day at the Zoo. Peering at storks. Date: 1927

WWI jug fabricated from an 18 pounder shell case
First World War jug fabricated from an 18 pounder shell case and relief decorated with storks amongst the bull rushes and irises. The handle has been beaten from the actual shell case. Trench Art

Decorative Stork Christening Cake Date: 1936

Seasonable Cakes, Stork or Christening Cake Date: 1936

Moldova - Old barn, well and storks
Moldova - a family of storks have nested on the top of a steep-roofed delapidated farm barn, next to a lever well. Date: circa 1920s

Bessarabia - Moldova
Bessarabia (which became Moldova) - typical village scene. Lucky storks nesting on the roof! Date: circa 1910s

Painted Stork
A Painted Stork. Date: 1960s

Painted & White Storks
A Painted Stork and a White Stork. Date: 1960s

Marabon Storks
A couple of Marabon Storks. Date: 1960s

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