Symbols Collection (page 5)

RMS Carpathia medal
The silver RMS Carpathia medal (image side) presented to Thomas Alfred Holmes, 3rd Engineer on the ship that rescued survivors from the Titanic disaster in April 1912

Temperance Friendly Society Postcard - Juvenile Section - savings and assurance benefits for men, women and children

Various Japanese Flags
The Flags of Japan

Turkish Student Club - German University
A Turkish Student Club at a German University. A very unusual postcard that such an occurance as this should have been recorded at all!

Egyptian Writing
Egyptian hieroglyphs developed the scope of visual symbols to an extraordinary degree, graphic as well as decorative

Anarchist Outrages 6
Churches, perceived as symbols of repression and the old regime, are a legitimate target for anarchists : the eglise Saint-Joseph at Paris is victim of a bomb attack

Anarchist Outrages 7
Churches, perceived as symbols of repression and the old regime, are a legitimate target for anarchists : the eglise Saint-Joseph at Paris is victim of a bomb attack

Missionary Teaching Pic
A reduced facsimile of a Romish picture used by Catholic Missionaries amongst Native American Indians. The picture represents Earth, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory

Illiterate Workers Bill
An exact copy of a bill for 10s. 10d. sent by a bricklayer who could not write, to a gentlman for whom he had worked. The symbol for settled is very dramatic! Date: late 19th century

Cross and Symbols
depicted with a variety of other Christian symbols, including the Crown of Thorns, the nails with which Jesus was fixed to the Cross, the dice used by the soldiers &c

Elizabeth I (Passe)
QUEEN ELIZABETH I wearing a fabulously ornate dress and carrying the symbols of royalty - orb and sceptre : her sword is at hand, too

Religious card with quotation from Revelation 2: 7
A religious card with a quotation from the Book of Revelation, Chapter 2, Verse 7 -- " To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of

Roman Licteurs & Fasces
Roman lictors carrying fasces - an axe within a bundle of sticks - which are used as symbols of their authority

Astronomical Symbols
ASTRONOMICAL SIGNS

Showgirl on Pig 1926
She powders her face, paints her lips and adjusts her suspenders while sitting on the back of monocled pigs, presumably symbols of her rich admirers and patrons

Jesus King of Glory
JESUS OF NAZARETH depicted as the King of Glory, with symbols of the four Evangelists at the corners

Hand Talisman
HAND TALISMAN incorporating other signs and symbols, this is a very powerful protective emblem

German alchemist at work
An allegorical portrait of a German alchemist at work, with various symbolic items -- Sun and Moon, Flowers and Furnace, and a lion swallowing a serpent

George Washington, American soldier and statesman

Cailliaud and the Zodiac
Cailliaud finds zodiacal symbols on an Egyptian mummy and on its sarcophagus, showing that he had been associated with particular astrological signs

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