Stuffed Collection (page 2)

Visiting Dress 1899
Fawn coloured dress, bodice composed of alternate panels of lace & plaid fabric, tight sleeves gathered into a puff at the shoulders, diagonal insert of lace on the skirt. Date: 1899

Racegoers Fashions 1899
Blue: tucked front & sleeves, wrap-over front, high pointed collar. Lilac tunic dress: dentate wrap over body, pointed & curved hems, flat braid trim, lace & belts. Date: 1899

Open Robe 1888
Green open robe: loose sash at the waist, tall soft hat with stuffed bird. Striped robe: pointed bodice, skirt with 3 rows of puffing & tunic fullness draped at the front. Date: 1888

Astrakan Costume 1885
Astrakan d-b jacket bodice, high round collar, skirt & tunic in fabric of vertical stripes, tasselled cord worn at one side. Hat: high crown & stuffed bird. Small muff. Date: 1885

Autumn Dress 1899
Grey & black dress: open bodice, embroidered revers with short cape, gored skirt with pleated panels contained to the knee with cords & buttons & flaring out below. 1899

Quixote - Flying Horse
He and Sancho take what they perceive to be an aerial voyage... on a wooden horse stuffed with fireworks Date: First published: 1605-15

Tasmanian Tiger on display, Australia
Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) on display (probably stuffed), in a garden in Australia. The species is believed to be extinct. Date: circa 1910

Paris Exhibition 1900 - Australia Pavilion
Lantern slide of Australia in Paris Exhibition, showing paintings, fruit, and stuffed animals (marsupials). Part of Box 198 Paris Exhibition, coloured slide, no. 36 Date: 1889

Paris Exhibition 1900 - Stuffed Animals and Pelts
Lantern slide of Russia - in Paris Exhibition 1889, showing stuffed wild animals and pelts.. Part of Box 198 Paris Exhibition, coloured slide, no. 30 Date: 1889

Suffragette Ceramic Teapot
A Ceramic teapot made in the Foley Intarsio ware, of a suffrage supporter or advocate of Womens Rights. The lid or cover has the face of a stereotypical, be-spectacled spinster

Goatskin shortages in 1915: humourous alternatives suggested
Hirsuitabilities: A humourous suggestion from Edwin Morrow in responce to the possibility of a shortage in supply of goat skins for soldiers winter overcoats. Date: 1915

Pamela Peto by Madame Yevonde
Pamela, the daughter of Lieutenant Geoffrey and Mrs Peto photographed with a toy elephant by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1918

Interior at Denham Court, Denham, Buckinghamshire
Amazing interior of the hall at Denham Court, Denham, Buckinghamshire, showing typical late Victorian, early Edwardina oppulance, with patterned wallpaper, statues, a portable organ, statuary

Decking the halls: Christmas decorations, 1871
Women decorate the interior of a house at Christmas with festive greenery. A stags head is being festooned with garlands, whilst a ball of mistletoe hangs from the light. Date: 1871

Home-made toys for Christmas 1942
Everyone is making toys. Noah never saw so many animals as are coming out of scrap-bags in every household for Christmas. The diagram given for the four animals shown are easy to follow. 1942

Patriotic British postcard, bayonet practice, WW1
First World War patriotic postcard, showing an imaginary German soldier standing behind the dummy used for bayonet practice

Liberty toys, including a range of stuffed animals such as a llama, a raccoon, a horse, a cow, a hippo, an owl, an elephant and a sheep

Home-made dolly for Christmas 1944
A cutie to make at home. Cut out pattern for a home-made dolly. 1944

Christmas Stockings
Young women workers with the large, commercial Christmas stockings they have made, stuffed with dolls and other goodies. Date: early 1930s

Large Christmas Stocking
Two young women hanging up a huge Christmas stocking stuffed with presents and other goodies! Date: early 1930s

Stuffed Armoured Dog
A stuffed armoured dog on a plinth, Paris, France. Date: 1931

Getting their dead pet dog stuffed
Conversation overhead by sympathetic Old Lady " I ear your Billys dead, when are you goin tr bury im?" " We aint goin to bury im, we re goin ter ave im stuffed." Date: circa 1890s

Madoqua saltiana, Salts dik-dik
On display in the Natural History Museums whale and mammal gallery (number 24). Its common name, dik-dik (or dikdik) is thought to have dervied from the sound it makes whilst running

Taxidermists at work

Various Pyroderus scutatus subspecies in storage at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Gallery 5, Tring
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Gallery 3, Tring
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Collection of stuffed birds
Case of stuffed bird specimen on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Stuffed primates in Gallery 1, The Natural History Museum at
Stuffed primate specimens on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Tring Gallery 3
Specimens on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

A satirical look at Germanys defeat in 1915
" The New Year - By An Optimist" The mood is tongue in cheek, and yet there remains a hint of hopeful optimism in this cartoon by George Studdy

Woman selling Empanadas, Argentina
Woman selling Empanadas (stuffed bread or pastry (baked or fried) - popular in many countries in Latin America) at San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina. Date: 1910s

aRDWOLF
A stuffed Aardwolf, similar to a hyena, native to southern and eastern Africa, which feeds mainly on termites and insect larvae. Yellowish grey fur with black stripes. Date: 1930s

Stuffed dog mounted on a tree stump. The dog is a cross of a timber wolf and a collie that was found in a hunters trap, Grand Island, Lake Superior Date: 20th century

Initiation of the Grand Scot of the Sacred Vaults
The Grand Scot of the Sacred Vaults initiation ceremony. Upon exiting a dark corridor, he is greeted by a (stuffed) lion holding a sword in its mouth

Poster, The Recruit Who Took To It Kindly. Showing an army recruit learning to use his bayonet and demolishing a row of stuffed sacks

Hungarian Boy - studio portait with bible
Hungarian Boy - studio portait of this young lad, holding bible and standing before a table-mounted sign which reads In Memorium. Date: circa 1910

Two Caribou with locked antlers
On occasion, two caribou stags when fighting become so interlocked they are unable to seperate - consequently both animals perish

Bird on Nellies Hat
A fashionable hat of the period trimmed with a stuffed bird worn by May Ward - the dainty little comedienne. Date: 1906

Clear - A Native American man with bow & arrows
Clear - A Native American man with extensive body painting, posing with bow and arrows and a spectacular headdress made from a whole stuffed parrot!

Some Guy by Frank Newbould
An American soldier, with a torch saying Unlimited Manpower, lights a bonfire upon which sits a stuffed guy of Prussian militarism

Relics of the Battle of Balaklava, 1875
Engraving of relics and souvenirs of the Battle of Balaklava including: a Russian Helmet, a pioneers sword, a knapsack, a pipe, a drum, a bugle from Inkerman, a helmet, leather gauntlets

A Devonshire lace-maker
Lace-making was a typical cottage industry and could be carried out independently by women in their homes. The woman in the picture sits by the hearth in a cottage with a bolster-style pillow firmly

America and Vatican
Pope to Wilson : Theres not much chance of peace so long as you keep your pockets stuffed with grenades !

Festive Nutty Squirrel 4
Festive tableau with a stuffed nut munching squirrel with holly berries, ivy, a fir tress and a yule log

Edwards Bear / Lampstand
After being shot by Edward, Prince of Wales, this bear is stuffed and used to hold a light and a tray of cigars at Marlborough House

Hats Like Flower Beds
A boy and girl, playing a kissing game, use Mamas flowery picture hats as flower beds. An ideal subsititue as they are adorned with roses, corn & stuffed birds

Fair / Margate Dreamland
A family pose (with a stuffed tiger) for a photograph during a visit to Margate Dreamland

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