Strange Collection (page 4)

Fantastic Adventures - The Devils Pigs
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1945, featuring the story The Devils Pigs by Don Wilcox. A young beautiful woman looks softly at a strange creature. Date: 1945

Fantastic Adventures - The Daughter of Genghis Kahn
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1942, featuring the story The Daughter of Genghis Kahn by John York Cabot. Beautiful young woman points a finger at something in front of her

Fantastic Adventures - The Floating Robot
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1941, featuring the story The Floating Robot by David Wright O brien. Beautiful woman in white dress looks terrified at a floating robot with an old microphone

Fantastic Adventures - Doorway to hell
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1942, featuring the story Doorway to hell by Frank Patton. A pretty woman in a long red dress is looking terrified by a bizarre fishy looking creature with a

Fantastic Adventures - Toka and the man bats
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1946, featuring the story Toka and the man bats by J. W. Pelkie. A beautiful young woman lies on the floor of a dark cave scared by a huge paranormal half man

Fantastic Adventures - Return of the whispering gorilla
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1943, featuring the story Return of the whispering gorilla by David V. Reed. A huge gorilla is holding a pretty woman in a white dress

Fantastic Adventures - Invasion of the Planet Men
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1949, featuring the story Invasion of the Planet Men by Berkeley Livingston. A couple is surprised by a view bizarre looking green complected men coming out

Fantastic Adventures - The involuntary immortals
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1949, featuring the story The involuntary immortals by Rog Phillips. A scientist is standing in a laboratory in front of a tube filled with a golden liquid

Fantastic Adventures - The Man who laughed at time
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1949, featuring the story The Man who laughed at time by Alexander Blade. Man in white cloak holds a golden scale

Fantastic Adventures - The Daughter of Thor
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, August 1942, featuring the story The Daughter of Thor by Edmond Hamilton. A young beautiful woman with long blond hair sits on a black throne

Fantastic Adventures - Lair of the Grimalkin
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1948, featuring the story Lair of the Grimalkin by G. H. Irwin. Amazonian beauty in purple dress with flowers in her hair walks nervously through a swamp with an

Fantastic Adventures - The Octopus of Space
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1949, featuring the story The Octopus of Space by Alexander Blade. A man watches another man in a wet suite fighting a huge octopus out of the round window of a

Fantastic Adventures - King of the Dinsaurs
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1945, featuring the story King of the Dinsaurs by J. W. Pelkie. A warrior on a huge dangers looking dinosaur wields his axe against an attacking enemy

Fantastic Adventures - Spawn of the Glacier
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1943, featuring the story Spawn of the Glacier by Leroy Yerxa. A couple stares at four little green suited fairies who climed out of black floating bubbles

Dollie Goo Goo watched a bumble bee
European kitsch take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo watched a bumble bee whilst her puppy dog chews on a toy Date: circa 1910s

Dollie Goo Goo surpised by a duckling
European take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo is surpised by a duckling Date: circa 1910s

Charles Marie Danremont
CHARLES MARIE DANREMONT French military commander, standing by a table on which a map is laid out. That strange object on the table is his helmet. Date: 1783 - 1837

William Black, Writer
WILLIAM BLACK Prolific Scottish novelist, author of The strange adventures of a phaeton, Lady Silverdales Sweetheart, and much more. Date: 1841 - 1898

Two-Headed Snake / C. 1770
A strange two-headed snake Date: circa 1770

Pedlars Pack Rest
This strange bench in Piccadilly, London was used by pedlars to lay their heavy packs on it and take a rest when wearied after trudging through the City streets. Date: 27 December 1932

Sleeping Beauty - 10
Refreshed after a good nights sleep, Beauty awakes to find a strange man beside her bed : however, since he is a prince, and therefore handsome, she is delighted rather than alarmed

Henrietta Stannard 1889
Henrietta Elizabeth Vaughan STANNARD writer under the name of JOHN STRANGE WINTER wife of Arthur Stannard Date: 1856 - 1911

Multi-Limbed Child / 1560
A freak birth with four arms and four legs. Date: 1560

Henrietta Stannard - writer
Henrietta Elizabeth Vaughan Stannard (1856 - 1911) writer under the name of John Strange Winter wife of Arthur Stannard photo 1890 Date: 1890

Anne Fenhoulet
lady ANNE FENHOULET (nee Day) wife of Sir Peter Fenhoulet, painted before her marriage, wearing rather unusual clothes a strange hat and a muff Date: circa 1750

Fortuna (Tooke)
The Roman goddess of luck, holding a cornucopia full of nice things, and a strange instrument

The Ogham Stone / Ireland
An Ogham Stone, found at Fortwilliam, Kerry. Ogham stones were covered in strange runic scripts, translated by scholars as possible Christian writings or even Norse text. Date: mid 19th century

The Little Folk by William Heath Robinson
A parade of strange little people forming a ramshackle procession to serenade their neighbours at Christmas time. Date: 1919

Mrs. William holding transmitter
Lady in Chair holding transmitter. Strange arch of light abobve her. Date: 1939

Dan Bulger racehorse and Prince Monolulu at the races
Racehorse Dan Bulger with jockey on horseback, and Prince Monolulu, horseracing tipster, at the races. circa 1936

Ufos / Nova Scotia
A fishing crew off Nova Scotia report strange lights, which seem to match radar signals picked up at the same time Date: 4 October 1967

Bradford FC football team 1936. Back row: Strange, Ward, Suggett, Wesley, Sanaghan, Lewis, Johnstone, Wallbanks. Second row: Murfin, Robertson, Thompson, Bell, Tewksbury, Farr, Barker, Whyte

Site of a Wartime Hospital - St. Michaels Cave, Gibraltar
Site of a Wartime Hospital and Now a Place of Interest to Visitors to Gibraltar: St. Michaels Cave, with Its Strange and Wonderful Stalactites and Stalagmites

Uncle Lubin, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Uncle Lubins Holiday, illustration by William Heath Robinson (1940s, unfinished) -- It was a tumbledown kind of place. Uncle Lubin decides that he needs a haircut before his family holiday

Acanthostracion quadricornis, or Four-Horned Trunkfish. Date: 1865

Flying Lemur / Colugos - Gliding
FLYING LEMUR / COLUGOS - Gliding (Cynocephalus volans). Philippines

Suffragette, Votes for Women, Fancy Dress. A seated group of men and women, some in masks, men blacked up all in strange attire. Girl in front row holds Votes for Women placard. Date: circa 1909

Bonzo the Peace-Maker by George Studdy
Bonzo the Peace-Maker -- he stops a fight and gets it in the neck from two pekingese dogs. Date: 1924

Levitation in Sunderland flying boat by G. H. Davis
Levitation in a Sunderland flying boat during the Second World War. Crew members and objects floated up into the air. This strange experience lasted for just a few moments

Cartoon, The Cult of Queer Pets, showing people in the street, taking their various odd pets for a walk. A lady had recently been seen in Bond Street, London, with a small pig on a lead. Date: 1914

Bringing home some jumbo spuds
A farmer brings home a splendid crop of giant potatoes.... Date: circa 1910s

Edward Bulwer Lytton
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON writer and occultist, author of Zanoni, A strange story, The coming race etc. with his autograph Date: 1803 - 1873

Paris Circa 1700
A rather strange early view of Paris Ville Capitale du Royaume de France in which the Louvre seems to be set back from the river which can hardly be seen at all ! Date: 17th century

WEIRD BIRD
A strange toy bird, a mascot made of wire and wool. Date: early 1930s

The Embankment, London on wet night with Policeman and Trams
A truly superb postcard photograph of The Embankment, London on wet night. The lights cast a strange eerie glow on the scene, magnified through the windows of a row of parked trams

Hong Kong - China - Street Coolies. The first and last are clad in straw raincoats while the one in the centre is carrying provisions purchased from the market. circa 1910s

Woman - the conundrum of the age - We can t guess her, but we ll never give her up! Date: circa 1910s

Unusual woman playing a small stringed instrument
Slightly unusual postcard showing a woman with long dark flowing locks strumming away at a small lute. A slightly deranged gaze to boot... Date: 1907

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