Strings Collection

Ukulele Song 1926
A happy couple singing by moonlight: Give me a ukulele... and a ukulele baby... and leave the rest to me

Senegal - Griot playing a Kora
Senegal - seated Griot playing a Kora, a 21-stringed harp lute that originated in the Gambia River valley with the Mandinko but is one of the most popular instruments in Senegal

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, statue as a boy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791), Austrian composer and musician, seen here in the form of a statue, as a boy with a violin and bow

Raphael Kirchner - Art Nouveau Girl playing the harp from the Greek Virgins postcard series. Date: 1900

Christmas card in the shape of a banjo. circa 1890s

Women from Lublin, Poland
Village peasant women from Lublin, Poland Date: circa 1910s

Harp with yellow flowers on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Motocross Scramblers
Muddy bikers revving up their engines between the starting strings at a Motocross scrambling race. Date: 1980s

Banjo with pink flowers on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Two golden harps on a cutout greetings card with a country scene. Date: circa 1890s

The Royal Coat of Arms of King George V. Arms: Quarterly, first and fourth, gules three lions passant guardant in pale or, (England); second or, a lion rampant within a tressure flory counter-flory

Classic Tight Scotsman Joke - Lured by six beauties
Classic Tight Scotsman Joke - A stereotype Jock doesn t hang on long to his tight purse strings as six pretty girls required a drink! " It wasn t long here till bang went saxpence

Kitten with a violin on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Tunisian woman with elaborate coin necklace
Tunisian woman with elaborate necklace made of many strings of coins with holes in the middle, metal bangles, thin silken clothing and a pointed hat

Bunty Pulls The Strings by Graham Moffat. First of a set of six cards by artist E. Chandler. Each card is edged by a green and blue tartan border

Pro Arte Orchestra
The leading Double Bass section of the Pro Arte Orchestra, peforming at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Date: 1969

Marie Hall - Violinist
Marie Hall (1884-1956) - Violinist and pupil of Edward Elgar - gave the 1st performance of Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending in 1920 Date: 1907

Chinese Puppet Theatre
A street puppet show. The automaton figures are operated by a set of strings

Jullien / Cruikshank / 1852
LOUIS-ANTOINE JULLIEN Satire on the popularity of the French musician and the concerts which he conducted in Britain from 1840 to 1859

Street Banana Seller, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Date: circa 1910s

Woman from Lublin, Poland
Village peasant woman from Lublin, Poland Date: circa 1910s

And there were strings of fairies hanging from the stars (I stood against the window). 1922

Children Ice Skating by Florence Hardy
Two Strings to his bow. A young boy is ice skating with a girl on each arm looking blissfully content

Japanese girl playing violin
A stunning photographic postcard depicting a young Japanese girl playing the voilin

Stringed instrument maker in his workshop
A stringed instrument manufacturer in his workshop, testing the strings of a double bass

Chic model in shirtwaister dress
Chic model with tied-back hair, a shirtwaister dress with revere collar and belt, leather gloves, handbag and multiple strings of pearls. Date: circa 1959

George Morris inventor of the 12 volt electric Welsh Harp
George Morris inventor of the 12 volt portable electric Welsh Harp, testing his invention in the hills of Snowdonia, North Wales Date: 1988

George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger, politician
GEORGE YOUNGER 1st VISCOUNT YOUNGER (1851-1929) Politician

Olga Valery - French actress - Roses
Olga Timchenko (aka Olga Valery) (1903-2002) - French actress of Ukrainian origin - performing at the Casino de Paris. The (remarkable) comment on the postcard reverse reads as follows

L'Album Front Cover Illustration
A front cover illustration from L'Album Les Maitres De La Caricature, The Masters Of Caricature Album. The image shows a young, red haired lady, lying on her front, almost seductively

Tennis Rackets
Images showing the differing constructions of tennis rackets through the ages. From the museum of F. H. Ayres, sports outfitters. Date: circa 1924

Edmund Goulding, director, studio portrait with puppet strings. Captioned, An Astrologer of The Screen: Goulding Pulls the Strings'

Mongolian Yatga players
Artists of the Folk Song and Dance ensemble, Ulan Bator, play yatgas, traditional Mongolian stringed instruments similar to a zither. Date: 1970s

Guitar-Playing in Spain
A Young Spanish student playing guitar. Date: late 18th century

Art Nouveau romantic couple Date: early 20th century

English gentleman riding a horse on his way to a picnic
English gentleman with whiskers in tam o shanter cap riding a horse on his way to a picnic in the country. A carriage with ladies behind him, and a peasant in smock in the foreground. Mr

View of the Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran
View of the Shah Mosque or New Abbasi Mosque, Isfahan, Iran. Based on an illustration by Jean Chardin. Moschea reale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio

Birthday card, This is no blues number. 20th century

Christmas card in the shape of a violin case. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Lily Brayton and Ben Webster in Kismet
Miss Lily Brayton (1876-1953) in the role of Marsinah and Mr Ben Webster (1864-1947) in the role of Abdullah in the play Kismet. Date: 1912

Miss Lily Brayton in the role of Marsinah in Kismet
Miss Lily Brayton, Actress (1876-1953). In the role of Marsinah in the play Kismet. Date: 1912

Birds Nest and Rose Cake Date: 1935

Orbital Activity Demo

Monsieur de La Live de Jully by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) - painting on canvas. Date: 1759

Saint-Gingolph, Haute-Savoie, France
A Souvenir shop (selling dolls and pearls) - Le Perle du Lac at Saint-Gingolph, a small town situated on the south bank of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman)

New Year card in the shape of a banjo. Date: circa 1890s

Two Lovers - Shamisen
Two Japanese lovers play the shamisen. The girl touches the cords, whilst her lover determines the sounds by the pressure of his fingers on the strings. Date: 18th century

German Violinist - Hilde Elgers. Date: circa 1923

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