Tail Collection (page 5)

Monkey pulling a cats tail on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Halleys Comet over Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910
Star-gazers watch Halleys Comet near the Flagstaff on Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910. Date: 1910

Advert for Gong soup 1916
Advertisement for Gong soups, For men at the front and in training. Well-known and poplar product during the First World War, which could be parcelled from home for the soldiers at the front

Dachshund with a movable tail on a novelty postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Byzantine Art. Relief depicting a lion on the facade of the Church of St. Nicholas, built in the 13th century and remodeled in 18th and 19th centuries. Mesopotam. Albania

Caricature of Charles Lauri, pantomime performer
Caricature of Charles Lauri Junior -- The Drury Lane Poodle. He was a pantomime performer who specialised in animal roles

Bolide meteorite with a serpentine shape
Bolide forming a serpentine shape due to the influence of gravitational forces on the fragments forming the tail Date: 1954

Mermaid of Zennor wood carving, Zennor Church, Cornwall
A wood carving of a mermaid on the end of a pew in Zennor Church, near St Ives, Cornwall. She is known as the Mermaid of Zennor and is depicted with long flowing hair

Illustration, Tam O Shanter
Illustration to Tam O Shanter, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Arctic Chimaera, or Rabbit Fish
Arctic Chimaera, also known as Rabbit Fish, Sea Ape and King of the Herrings. Date: 1862

Leucoraja circularis, or Sandy Ray
Leucoraja naevus, known as Cuckoo Ray or Cuckoo Skate. Date: 1862

Raia clavata, or Thornback Ray
Raia clavata, also known as Thornback Ray and Thornback Skate. Date: 1862

Raja rhina, or Longnose Skate. Date: 1862

In the Stretching Sheds of an Ox-Tail Soup Factory. War-Time Economies from William Heath Robinson including an ingenious idea for making the ingredients for oxtail soup go further. Date: 1918

Pigeons - Scotch Fantails or Broad-Tailed Shakers
A portrait of a White, White Laced and Black-Saddle Back Scotch Fantail pigeons, also known as Broad-Tailed Shakers. The Fantail is a popular breed of fancy pigeon

WW1 - British Tadpole Tank
WW1 - British Mark IV tank, also known as the Tadpole. The Mark IV was first used in mid 1917 at the Battle of Messines Ridge. It remained in official British service until the end of the War

Nieuport 23 of French ace Charles Nungesser
Nieuport 23 flown by the French ace Charles Nungesser. Date: circa 1917

Junkers Ju 188G tail unit in close up

Junkers J8 two-seat German prototype fighter plane
Junkers J8 two-seat German prototype fighter monoplane. Work on it began in October 1917, with trials in 1918. It led to the production of the Junkers CI I. Date: circa 1917

Culver PQ-14 near B-29 tail -this diminutive lightplane was normally operated as a target drone, but could be piloted

Oriental broad-tailed sheep, Ovis aries laticaudata.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine, Harrison, London, 1800

Helm and parade armor of a Roman officer. Ist c. B.C. Roman art. Sculpture on marble. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. Museum of Roman Civilization

Figure of an animal. Muisca Art. Chibcha art. Jewelry. COLOMBIA. CUNDINAMARCA. Bogotᮠ Gold Museum

New Zealand Maori Ornaments and Decorations. They are an ear ornament, real or imitation teeth, grotesque figures (tiki), earrings, a tail feather, a shell, wooden combs, a fly catcher

Bonzo tries to swim the channel by George Studdy
Bonzo tries to swim the channel, much to the amusement of the Bonzolines. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Studdys Dog Studies: Brevity is the soul of wit by G. E. St
Early illustration by G. E. Studdy showing a tearful Spaniel with a recently docked tail being grinned at by a smug cat. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Sudan - A White Nile Crocodile Date: circa 1910

Tail turret of a Handley Page Halifax

Lingula sp. brachiopod
Lingula is a genus of brachiopods within the class Lingulata. Lingula has been around for more that 550 million years

Harpactes fasciatus, Malabar trogon
Plate 30, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

LS Plate 186 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 158 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 146 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 122 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 193 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 136 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Rastrelliger kanagurta, Indian mackerel
Plate 33 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Echiichthys vipera, lesser weever fish
Photograph of the lesser weever fish (Echiichthys vipera), which lives in the English Channel, buried under the sea bed with its venomous dorsal fin showing above the sandy bottom

A collection of birds feathers
Contour feathers, wing coverts and tail coverts from several different species of birds

Synodontis maculipinna, catfish
Synodontis is the most widely-distributed mochokid genus. This specimen was collected from the Rufigi River near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and arrived at the museum in 1922

Tachycineta bicolor, tree swallow
Plate 100 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Balloon descent at Gonesse, France
The first trial hydrogen balloon which ascended from the Champ de Mars, and descended in the village of Gonesse, north east of Paris

Silhouette of a chow chow

Horse with the longest mane and tail in the world, 1895
This extraordinary animal was bred at Marion, Oregon, United States. He is eight years old, and his mane measures 14ft and his tail 11ft

A Cheetah in full flight
A Cheetah running at full speed. Pen, ink and wash drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Bird of Paradise among exotic blooms
A Bird of Paradise (with an impressive pale blue tailfeather) perched amongst exotic blooms. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

A Sea Bass catching whitebait
A superb painting by Malcolm Greensmith of a Sea Bass, wheeling to catch a whitebait, its spiney dorsal fin raised in agressive pose

The Fox Without a Tail
THE FOX THAT LOST ITS TAIL A fox that lost its tail in a trap and mourned its loss, tried to convince his brethren that they would be better off without their tails

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