Swallow Collection

A Swallow in flight
A swallow (Hirundo rustica) in flight. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

WW2 Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe informing suppliers
WW2 Home Front Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe Colette of Swallow Street, London sending information on a printed card to inform suppliers that (likely due to Bomb damage)

Old Towngate - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Old Towngate, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Holmfirth has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine

Dandelion Clock by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small child, probably a little boy in blue smock and shorts seated on a small tuffet of grass and blowing a dandelion clock while clutching a favourite doll in his other

Swallow-Tailed Kite
AMERICAN SWALLOW-TAILED KITE (Elaboides furcatus)

Thumbelina flies away on the Swallows back
Thumbelina escapes from the Field Mouse and the Mole on the back of the Swallow. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Thumbelina kisses the Swallow goodbye
Thumbelina stands on tiptoe and kisses the Swallow goodbye. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Kitsch Greek Greetings Postcard
A kitsch Greek Greetings card, featuring a rather unusual bird (cross between a swallow and a dove!?) carrying a message of good wishes across the sea, surrounded by a border of red and pink flowers

Gladys, Albert Batchelor in British Klemm L25C 1A Swallow
Gladys and Albert Batchelor in his British Klemm L25C 1A Swallow, G-ACXD

Cartoon - Swallowing a yarn
A little blackbird fails to consume a length of twine: " I can t swallow that yarn." Date: circa 1915

Burns / Now Westlin Winds
NOW WESTLIN WINDS But Peggy dear the ev nings clear, Thick flies the skimming swallow, The sky is blue, the fields in view, All fading green and yellow

Albert Batchelors BA Swallow 2 G-AERK
Albert Batchelors BA Swallow 2, G-AERK

Albert Batchelor with his British Klemm L25C 1A Swallow G-A
Albert Batchelor with his British Klemm L25C 1A Swallow, G-ACXD

Sopwith Swallow monoplane B9276
Sopwith Swallow monoplane, B9276

Swallow / Cig. Card / 1915
Swallow - latin name: Hirundo rustica

The Swallow Falls, Bettws-y-Coed, Wales - Judges real photo postcard 1918 Date: 1918

A Welsh Maid at Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed, Wales
A Welsh Maid at Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed, Snowdonia, Wales Date: 1951

Swallow Falls, Betws y Coed, Conwy, Wales - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

A Very Fishy Story, by Louis Wain
A Very Fishy Story, comical fish cartoon drawn by Louis Wain Date: 1892

The Swallow Falls, Bettws y Coed, Wales

Advertisement for Henly SSI and SSII cars, by The Swallow Coachbuilding Company Ltd. Captioned, An Amazing Performance'

Standard Swallow car, advertorial by the Earl of Cardigan. Captioned, Cars with a Personality: The New Standard Swallow'. Showing interior and exterior of the car, the engine, and storage

B. A. Swallow II G-AFGE
B.A. Swallow II G-AFGE Aeolus (msn 470), at Plymouth-Roborough. Date: circa 1966

Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd, North Wales. Date: circa 1920s

Chimney swift and bank swallow
Chimney swift, Chaetura pelagica 1, bank swallow, Riparia riparia 2, males. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds

Wilsons snipe or common snipe, Gallinago delicata, males 1, female 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of

Cliff swallow and barn swallow
Cliff swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota 1, and barn swallow, Hirundo rustica 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report

Least tern, Sternula antillarum, adult 1, young, fall plumage 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of

Scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea, male 1, female 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania, E.K

Tree swallow, Tachycineta bicolor. White-bellied swallow, adult male 1, female 2. Chromolithograph after an ornithological illustration by John James Audubon from Benjamin Harry Warrens Report

Barn swallow, Hirundo rustica, with nest and eggs. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Nest and eggs of the orchard oriole, Icterus spurius. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Great prominent, Peridea anceps. Bombyx trepida. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Figure of eight, swallow prominent and Drymonia
Figure of eight moth, Diloba caeruleocephala, swallow prominent, Pheosia tremula, and Drymonia velitaris moth. Bombyx caeruleocephela, dictaea, velitaris

Candlenut, Crotn laccifer. Croton lacciferum Linn. Sp. 1426, Burm. 204. Halecus terrestris, Rumph. 3 p.199 T.127. Ricin en arbre aromatique

Starfish plant and white swallow-wort
Starfish plant, Orbea variegata 1 and white swallow-wort, Vincetoxicum hirundinaria 2. Stapelia variegata Linn. Asclepias du Cap de Bonne Esperance 1, Asclepias vincetoxicum Linn. Dompte-venin

Elkhorn plant, Rhombophyllum dolabriforme (Hatchet-leaved fig marigold, Mesembryanthemum dolabriforme). Mesembryanthemum a feuilles en forme de langue

Swallow bus. Date: circa 1940

Swallow Falls - the Rhaeadr Ewynnol, Wales
Swallow Falls - the Rhaeadr Ewynnol - a multiple waterfall system in Wales, located on the Afon Llugwy near Betws-y-Coed, in Conwy County Borough. Date: 1953

Bridge near Swallow Falls - the Rhaeadr Ewynnol, Wales
Bridge near Swallow Falls - the Rhaeadr Ewynnol - a multiple waterfall system in Wales, located on the Afon Llugwy near Betws-y-Coed, in Conwy County Borough. Date: 1953

Greater striped swallow, Hirundo cucullata (Cape swallow, Hirundo capensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Leopard moth, sallow kitten and prominent moths
Wood leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina, sallow kitten, Furcula furcula, iron prominent, Notodonta dromedarius, pebble prominent, Notodonta ziczac, and lesser swallow prominent, Pheosia gnoma

Lindo chatterer. Perhaps the swallow tanager, Tersina viridis, but with the under part of the body blue, not white. Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Wire-tailed swallow, Hirundo smithii. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1823

Pacific swallow, Hirundo tahitica (Otaheite swallow, Hirundo tahitiae). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1823

Edible-nest swiftlet, Aerodramus fuciphagus, and nest of saliva, used in bird s-nest soup. (Esculent swallow, Hirundo esculenta)

Indian cliff swallow, Petrochelidon fluvicola. (Rufous-headed swallow, Hirundo indica.) Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester

Mosque swallow, Cecropis senegalensis (Great Senegal swallow, Hirundo senegalensis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

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