Teasing Collection

Man prepares his hair ready for his wedding day - Djibouti, East Africa. Date: 1908

Irish soldier in a trench, Mesopotamia, WW1
A soldier with the Royal Irish Fusiliers (Faugh-a-Ballagh) in a trench in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), teases a Turkish sniper by raising a pith helmet on his rifle during the First World War

The Ring Recovered
Act three : the Rhinemaidens recover the Ring from Hagen and bear it away in triumph

A new dog-fancy: the Basset Hounds by Louis Wain
Engraving by Louis Wain showing four naughty basset hounds teasing two scared black and white cats. A fifth basset hound enters the room looking coy but unrepentant with a whip in its mouth

Teasing Tirpitz, or luring a U boat to Dover, Heath Robinson
A battered British plane suspends a tiny toy boat on a string, fooling a German U boat into pursuing it all the way to Dover. Another mischievous war tactic dreamed up by William Heath Robinson

Unappreciated! By Lawson Wood
Two bears teasing a orangutan with a toy monkey. Date: 1930

Accident- Snow from Roof
A REGULAR DAMPER - AND NO MISTAKE Having left an exhibition on Swiss avalanches a tatty man suffers a similar fate courtesy of a roof clearer !

Victorian Child & Her Dogs
Young girl in her nightdress teasing her dogs with a bird on a string. Date: 1898

A cheeky mouse tickles a scruffy white dogs nose
" I just love to tickle you" - a cheeky little mouse playfully tickles a scruffy white dogs nose. Date: 1916

Wind Elves teasing a child
Wind Elves tease a child by blowing the blackberries out of her reach. Date: 1917

Advert for Heatonex girls coat 1950
Lovely illustrated advertisement for Heatonex clothing showing a young girl in a smart yellow coat, short white socks and T bar shoes teasing a kitten with a ball of wool. Date: 1950

Three goblins and a frog on a cutout Christmas card
Three goblins tickling a frog with a peacock feather on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Wool-Comber
A wool comber teasing out a bundle of clean wool on a comb which can then be spun Date: 1827

Cartoon, March goblins, showing an old lady teased by the March winds and squally showers. Date: 1919

Suffragettes Tease Lion
Suffragettes teasing the British lion. Date: 1914

Only teasing at the carnival
Clown with his mandolin feigns sleep on a chaise longue. Late Victorian.Date: circa 1900

Teasing the Turk, WW1
An Irishman in a trench during the Dardanelles teases the Turkish enemy with a pith helment on his rifle, peeping over the parapet. Date: 1915

The Blue Bird by Herbert Pizer
Lovely illustration of a woman in a blue costume and head dress, possibly a show girl, leaning back athletically on a stool. Date: 1919

Romanian Women spinning
A large group of Romanian Women spinning outside a thatched cottage in their village. Date: 1910s

Statuesque blonde beauty teasingly pulls at her waistband
Teasin to Please! a statuesque blonde beauty teasingly pulls at the waistband string on her ever-so-skimpy undergarment. The flowers on her shoes are of the same colour. Date: early 1940s

The Graphic Christmas Number 1925 front cover
Entitled, Safety First, a woman in a pink dress ensures she won t be struck by an arrow of love as she teases a tiny cupid, waving his bow and quiver of arrows high above his reach. Date: 1925

Lady in the Bath - Provocative
A rather saucy card showing a lady in the bath with the tagline: Why don t you come up an see me sometime? Date: circa 1940s

A Good Rainfall
A delightful postcard illustrated by Lance Thackeray, entitled A Good Rainfall from the Amateur Gardening series. A girl watering her high hedge soaks her male companion and then tells him to go

Turkish beauty - Constantinople
A Turkish Beauty from Constantinople standing in front of a hanging rug

A Live Wire - Mutoscope postcard featuring an evocatively posed young woman on the telephone to her beau. She lies on some colourful plump cushions and the telephone sits atop a fine period table

Boys Tease Redhead 1924
Two boys tease a redheaded girl, calling her carrot-head: she retorts that her hair is auburn

Girls, Dog & Puppet
Two spiteful Victorian girls torment the family dog with an articulated toy clown, or is it a pierrot?

Children & Deaf Woman
Victorian children teasing a deaf woman as she walks down the street

Female Type / Nitouche
Mademoiselle Nitouche: does that mean you can look, but you can t touch?

Teasing the Bear
Please not to irritate the bear till he has been fed

Boy Tickles Sleepy Girl
A naughty little boy mischievously tickles the ear of a sleeping girl with a long straw. A naughty kitten mirrors his behaviour as it torments a bird in a cage

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