Telegram Collection

Sherlock Holmes / Doyle
A REMINISCENCE OF MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES (later retitled The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge). Holmes tossed the telegram across with a laugh

James Gordon Bennett Jr
JAMES GORDON BENNETT (JUNIOR) American editor : established New York Evening Telegram, sent Stanley to find Livingstone and financed various other expeditions

Telegram Boys 1930S
A line-up of smart young telegraph boys with immaculate uniforms and highly polished shoes

Telegram from Queen
The Queen sends a thank-you telegram to the earl of Bessborough, patron of the Chichester Festival. Date: 1962

The Studdy Dog - Somebody Cares by George Studdy
The Studdy Dog, later known as Bonzo, appearing as an example of animal caricatures in an article in The Strand magazine. This particular dog appears to be getting ready to post a love letter

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Jacob Milling postcard
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. An exceptional handwritten postcard postmarked 11pm on 9 April 1912 sent by Second Class passenger Jacob Christian Milling (1863?1912)

RMS Titanic - telegram from Marconi to Carpathia
RMS Titanic - one of the rarest and finest Titanic related telegrams known, described by the late Ken Schultz as an exceptional piece of history'

RMS Titanic - Marconi portrait with Carpathia telegram
RMS Titanic - one of the rarest and finest Titanic related telegrams known, described by the late Ken Schultz as an exceptional piece of history'

The wireless warfare: How the Admiralty's wireless installation that spook to any Britsih warships within 1600 miles of Whitehall

Comic postcard, Man on beach annoyed by telegram. How dare you bring me a telegram like this! Cela vous apprendra de m apporter un telegramme disant qu il faut revenir

Advert, Grand Pump Room Hotel, Bath. 1927

Telegram congratulations, new baby. 1949

The Prince Imperial Announces the Capture of Puebla
The Prince Imperial, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, is gestured towards balcony, surrounded by men and women watching. The child holds the telegram that announces the French capture of Puebla

Belgian Telegram Form
Decorative Belgian Telegram Form

Members of Dail Eireann - the Sinn Fein Parliament
The Men who claim to rule Ireland - Members of Dail Eireann - the Sinn Fein Parliament. Date: 1920

Stationery, James Seligman, Angus Mackay & Co
Stationery design, James Seligman, Angus Mackay & Co - the George Hotels, Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Kings Head Hotel, Sheffield. 1909

Naval Signal, surrender of German Fleet, WW1
Naval Signal announcing the surrender of the German Fleet at the end of the First World War, 21 November 1918. 1918

Telegram Messenger Boy - People You See. From Teddy Bear (24 October 1964). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1964

Telegraphic message boy
Telegraph boy employed to deliver telegrams, holding his leather satchel with an important sealed message, which is probably sent up by a Manchester or Birmingham manufacturer to one of the London

Post and Telegraph Office, Reykjavik, Iceland - note the superb roof-mounted box aerial Date: circa 1909

Swiss Mobile Post Office (Schweiz Automobil Postbureau) offering postal, telephone and telegram services to remote parts of the country. Date: 1939

The Mail and Telegraph Office at Valencia, Spain
The Mail and Telegraph Office (Main Post Office) at Valencia, Spain. Date: circa 1920s

Louise Max-Ehrler (1850-1920). Italian painter. Telegram, 1894. Detail. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic

Telegram sent by Kaiser Wilhelm II to President Wilson
Telegram sent by Kaiser Wilhelm II to US President Woodrow Wilson on 10th August 1914. Date: 1914

Telegram excuse sent by husband to disguise affair
Telegram excuse sent by an older man to his wife to disguise the affair he is having with his young Secretary. Date: 1909

Engagement of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002) and her fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) reading telegrams of good wishes sent following the announcement of their engagement. Date: 1960

Telegram Boys 1937
Four young telegraph boys, smartly dressed in their uniforms, queue up at the counter to be given their telegrams by the manager

Girl Faints in Mans Arm
Girl faints into gentlemans arms after reading the fatal telegram Date: circa 1890

Royal Ordnance Factory, Patricroft, Lancashire
Royal Ordnance Factory, Patricroft, Eccles, near Manchester, Lancashire, England. Showing men manufacturing Canons - World War One - The sign reads

On Her Majestys Service -- delivery of a telegram. 1893

Christmas and New Year card in shape of telegraph boy
Christmas and New Year card in the shape of a boy holding up a telegraph message. Date: circa early 20th century

Two mice eating a telegram on a New Year postcard
Two mice eating a telegram on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1906

Poster, Telegrams, in black, grey and beige. 20th century

Telegram mobilising VAD 1914
This telegram, sent to Birchington late in the day on 14 October 1914, was the call to mobilise the local Voluntary Aid Detachments to set up their hospitals

Greetings telegram, happy birthday
Greetings telegram with a patriotic design, happy birthday. Date: 1942

Greetings telegram, wedding anniversary, with a border design by C J Bouttell. Date: 1952

Greetings telegram, Golden Wedding anniversary, with a border design by Eric Fraser. Date: circa 1950s

Stationery design, Eden Hotel Restaurant Lunes, Florence, Italy. 1923

Invoice from Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, to Mr Frank Blackley, for the supply of one hundred greetings cards, total cost ten shillings and ten pence. Date: circa 1891

Christmas and New Year telegram addressed to Sallie, with a greetings verse. 1890

Cartoon, A dry telegram, WW1
Cartoon, A dry telegram, showing a chef (a spy) writing to his boss, that after eight days the boxes of rubbish have contained nothing of diplomatic interest. Date: 1915

Marconi strangles Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph snakes
THE INFANT HERCULES Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), strangling the twin snakes of Ocean Cable and Land Telegraph with his new Wireless telegraph system

Manufacture of the Atlantic cable
The manufacture of the Atlantic submarine cable at Glass, Elliott and Co.s Works, East Greenwich, London Date: 1857

Fruit Label -- Pedro Monsonis oranges
Fruit Label -- Pedro Monsonis selected oranges, imported from Valencia, Spain, depicting two Greedy Mice pulling a giant orange apart. Date: 20th century

Egyptian Fantasy card - State Telegram and Al-Azhar Mosque
Egyptian Fantasy card - featuring an Egyptian State Telegram and an inset photograph of the Al-Azhar University and Mosque, Cairo, Egypt (founded in 975) all on a faux papyrus background

Turkish Fantasy Postcard - Imperial Ottoman Telegraph - beautiful collage card. Date: 1905

Messenger Boy
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

A strange visitor brings a war telegram to the Czar. Print shows a cossack wearing a conch shell as a disguise bringing a telegram to Tsar Nicholas II. Date 1904 or 1905

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping