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Thieving Collection

Background imageThieving Collection: Bow Street, formerly known as Thieving Lane, probably due to its helpful residents

Bow Street, formerly known as Thieving Lane, probably due to its helpful residents. Date: 1807

Background imageThieving Collection: Bow St, formerly known as Thieving Lane, a place of the lowest order and filth

Bow St, formerly known as Thieving Lane, a place of the lowest order and filth. Date: 1807

Background imageThieving Collection: THIEVING MAGPIE - 1

THIEVING MAGPIE - 1
The famous thieving magpie of Palaiseau, near Versailles, France, carries a spoon and fork in his bill to his nest. Date: circa 1750

Background imageThieving Collection: Pub landlady stops snack, 1858

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

Background imageThieving Collection: WW1 - Theft of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris by a Zeppelin

WW1 - Theft of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris by a Zeppelin ! Date: circa 1916

Background imageThieving Collection: C17 London Home

C17 London Home
Buildings of the 17th century or so, in the Little Sanctuary, Thieving Lane, London. The ground floor is occupied by an ironmongers shop. Date: 17th century

Background imageThieving Collection: Barman has a stern word with a disreputable customer

Barman has a stern word with a disreputable customer who has been stealing pewter beer tankards, which he has been turning into coinage to bring back to spend at the same establishment

Background imageThieving Collection: Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket

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

Background imageThieving Collection: SANQUIRICO, Alessandro (1777-1849)

SANQUIRICO, Alessandro (1777-1849). La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Set for the opera. Painting

Background imageThieving Collection: Granpop gives him an earful by Lawson Wood

Granpop gives him an earful by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing Granpop (Lawson Woods wily orang-utan) throwing tomatoes at a thieving pig. Date: 1934

Background imageThieving Collection: Training a police dog - catching a fleeing burglar

Training a police dog - catching a fleeing burglar. A police dog and handler lie in wait, ready to pounce on a burglar making his escape out of a ground floor window

Background imageThieving Collection: Thieving Lane

Thieving Lane
Old buildings in the lane

Background imageThieving Collection: Farmer, Cranes & Stork

Farmer, Cranes & Stork
THE FARMER, THE CRANES & THE STORK: A stork, caught by a farmer, begs that his life be spared as he is not like the thieving cranes; he has been caught with them however

Background imageThieving Collection: Thieving Magpie C1750

Thieving Magpie C1750
The famous thieving magpie of Palaiseau, near Versailles, France, carries a spoon and fork in his bill to his nest


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