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For Healths SakeComic illustration by Lawson Wood showing two cheeky monkey pilfering fruit from a sleeping orang utan, Gran pop. Title is For Healths Sake Take Things Quietly
The Great Train Robbery, 8th August 1963. Wanted Poster for Ronald Buster Edwards. Date: 1963
The Eastcastle Street Robbery, 1952A page from the Illustrated London News, detailing the Eastcastle Street Robbery of 1952, when a Post Office van was hijacked and its contents, 200, 000 in soiled notes, were stolen
The Great Train Robbery, 8th August 1963. Wanted Poster for Bruce Reynolds. 1963
Dick TurpinIndictment of Richard Dick Turpin, for stealing a mare worth three pounds from Thomas Creasy, at Welton, Yorkshire, 1st March 1739 Date: 1st March 1739
Mona Lisa Says GoodbyeThe Mona Lisa says goodbye when the painting is stolen from the Louvre, Paris
(The Morning After of a Faun) Le Lendemain d un Faune (or, What an Afternoon ) - The Great success of the new ballet L Apres-Midi d un Faune in which the faun, failing to abduct the nymph herself
James Burgess, the railway guard who was part of the gang that took part in the bullion robbery on the South-Eastern railway on the night of 15 May 1855
Criminal, Thomas CarrTHOMAS CARR Clerk of respectable family gone to the dogs. Crimes included theft with violence & using his legal expertise to assist criminals
Indignities shown to the corpse of William the Conqueror - on his death in France, his body was stripped of clothing and jewellery. Date: 1087
Ratner branch bank strong room door, drill proof and blowpipe resisting. Date: circa 1920s
Comic postcard, Couple on the beach at night - theft of ice cream cornet Date: 20th century
The theft of the La Tour Pastels from St. Quentin, Dec 1918Article describing the theft of the pastel work of Maurice Quentin de la Tour and showing a selection of three examples of his most famous pastel work
Moai on Easter IslandMonuments on Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Artist Gaspard Duche de Vancy sketching a Moai while a native steals his hat. From Jean Francois Laperouses Voyage
Skeleton of Death stealing gold from a MiserSkeleton of Death stealing gold coins and treasure from a Miser in his vault with barred windows. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein
Tatler cover Clothes Worth Stealing 1961Front cover of The Tatler featuring an art thief contemplating a portrait of the latest fashions for 1961 in an art gallery. Date: 1961
Cartoon, Poaching on Forbidden Preserves. 19th century
The French, after their successful campaign in Italy, loot Venice, removing art treasures from the cathedral of San Marco Date: 1797
PrintAn untitled mezzotint on paper, hand coloured with watercolour and gouache, showing a scene in which a woman is stealing a stocking purse and pocket watch from a sleeping man, dated c.1790
What Would You Do?Bonzo, the cute canine created by George Studdy in The Sketch magazine in the 1920s, wonders what to do now that some heinous thief has stolen his sausages from under his nose
Mona Lisa Back with BabyThe Mona Lisa is back after her temporary absence... with a baby!
Humanised foxes with turkeys and geese on a Christmas cardHumanised foxes with turkeys and geese in a cage on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, WW1Cartoon, Being Unable to Take Paris, showing Crown Prince Wilhelm during the First World War, taking anything else he can lay his hands
Colenso Diamond Wanted PosterPoster offering reward of e750 for the return of the Colenso Diamond. On 29th April, 1965, from the Mineral Gallery at the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW7
DI Jill McTeague, Arts & Antiques Squad, with necklaceDI Jill McTeague of the Arts & Antiques Squad of the Metropolitan Police, holding a stolen necklace which has been recovered
Pub landlady stops snack, 1858" Dip your roll in your own pot at home!" A fierce looking landlady berates a hungry customer caught in the act of helping himself to the contents of her cooking pot
West End riots: shops looted by rioters, 1886Articles of plunder from shops, used as missiles during the 1886 West End riots. At an open air meeting of unemployed East End dock workers and artisans in Trafalgar Square
WW1 - Theft of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris by a Zeppelin ! Date: circa 1916
Little Folk Misfitz - Tom the Pipers Son. circa 1910
Caricature of A W Pinero as a clownCaricature of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), English actor, playwright and stage director. Seen here as a Christmas pantomime clown at St Jamess Theatre, London
Venice Looted by FrenchThe French pillage Venice, carrying away the famous horses of San Marco Date: 1797
Dr Syntax robbed in St Giles, London. Date: 1820
He Didn t Want to Do ItPromotional postcard for He Didn t Want to Do It Date: circa 1910
Plunder by Ben TraversPromotional postcard for Plunder by Ben Travers. First produced at Kings Theatre, Southsea, 18th June and Aldwych Theatre, 26th June 1928
Cartoon, The product of German science, WW1Cartoon, The product of German science, showing a group of learned men looking at a subhuman German soldier, with a lookalike Neanderthal man on display in the background. Date: 1916
Cartoon, How to get hold of some plonk, WW1Cartoon, How Herbinet used System D to get hold of some plonk. Showing how a soldier gradually extracts wine from a large barrel in a stable. Date: 1916
Yes, we have no bananas! by George StuddyYes, we have no bananas! Bonzo sits on a street corner with an empty basket in his mouth, while a man runs away with a bunch of bananas
Nursery Rhymes -- goblin and bats, bird stealing pipeNursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a goblin and bats flying about the night sky by moonlight. Below -- a bird steals a plump mans pipe. Date: early 20th century
Louis Lepine PhotoLOUIS LEPINE - French chef de police responsible for many innovations : the Bonnot gang and the theft of the Mona Lisa were among the problems he had to face : in 1911. Date: CIRCA 1900
Cheeky Cockney man quizzes a London PolicemanThe wit of the Classic London Cockney - cheekily enquiring of a Policeman (leading home a small lost child): - " Whats e done, Guvnor?" !!! Date: 1892
Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903
Fairies stealing fruitFruit the Fairies steal away, never comes again