Tilt Collection

Goligher Ectoplasm
Kathleen exudes ectoplasm from between her legs; sometimes it would become sufficiently rigid to tilt a small table

Lombards on their mobile devices. Engraving from Kriegsbuch (war book) by Leonhardt Fronsperger, Frankfort, 1575. Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance

Spectators watching jousting games in an arena, 18th century
View of tournament games in the superb arena of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, 18th century. Spectators watch riders jousting below from balconies

Spain. The new Plasencia Cannons. Engraving, 1882
Spain. The new Plasencia Cannons. 12-centimeter gun, number 2, mounted on a steel plate carriage, which has withstood 553 shots in tests. Drawing by Nao. Engraving

Bus tilt test, Burnley, possibly 1940s. Date: circa 1940s

Lady Member of the Caravan Club, cooking
A Lady Member of the Caravan Club who lives in a Donkey Tilt Cart, cooking Date: 1914

Lady Member of the Caravan Club in donkey tilt cart
A Lady Member of the Caravan Club who lives in a Donkey Tilt Cart Date: 1914

Medieval games in the Tilt Yard
The Tilt Yard, Combat a L'Outrance - medieval games

Smiling Woman
A clay model sculpture which portrays a slender, smiling woman, standing with her hand resting on her hip, her neck is craning slightly forward, giving her head a slanting tilt. Date: circa 1922

Jousting knights toys, 14th century
Jousting toys: knights on horseback with helmet, shield and lance, 14th century

Tilting at a ring, 14th century
Man on horseback with lance tilting at a ring, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876

Tilting games, 14th century. Men wrestling for possession of a pole and the winner with pole (top) tilting rings and jousting toys (middle), and mounted man tilting at a ring (bottom)

Quintain exercises, 14th century

Tilting at water quintain, 14th century
Boy with lance on a boat rowed by other boys tilting at a water quintain, 14th century

Tilting at a mobile quintain, 14th century
Boy with lance tilting at a mobile quintain operated by another boy, 14th century

Tilting at quintain, 14th century
Boy with lance tilting at a moveable quintain operated by another boy (top), boy with lance tilting at a living quintain (trying to knock a man in armour with a shield off a stool)

Medieval tilting game or quintain
Boy on rolling trestle pulled by two other boys to tilt with a lance at a fixed quintain, 14th century

Medieval tilting games or quintain
Boy on rolling trestle with spear tilting at a fixed quintain (top), soldier in armour attacking a pel quintain (left) and a saracen quintain (right)

Man with lance tilting at a ring under a box, 17th century
Man on horseback with lance tilting at a ring under a box at a village fete, 17th century, from a painting by Philips Wouwerman

Tilting at a ring under a basin of water, 17th century
Tilting at a ring under a basin of water, jeu de bague or jeu du baquet. Popular game at village festivals

Chinese merry-go-round (Bague Chinoise) in
The Chinese merry-go-round (Bague Chinoise) in Tivoli gardens, Paris. Riders with batons try to spear a ring held by the woman in pink. Taken from Mesangeres Bon Genre circa 1815

Caricature of a man impotently tilting at rings (jeu de bague) on a merry-go-round

Jousting at a quintain or pavo. Taken from Antoine de Pluvinels L Instruction du Roy en l exercise de monter a cheval, 1668

Suit of armour belonging to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Special shaped cuirass to deflect lances, pass guards on shoulders

Variety of jousting shields and helmets from a medieval tournament

Knights jousting at a medieval tournament, and heraldic crests

Knights in jousting armour at a medieval tournament. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after A

Knights in armour on horseback jousting in a tournament, 1450

Tilt-yard at Westminster, London, where jousting took place in courtyard. circa 16th century

Old tilt hammerhead found in Kent
Photograph of an old tilt hammerhead found in Kent and probably in use in 1660s at Bugsell Forge. Shown alongside a ruler

Tilt Cove Copper Mine, Newfoundland, Canada. Date: 1902

Westland WE-01 short-range tilt-rotor concept
Westland WE-01 short-range, tilt-rotor concept. July 1968. Date: 1968

APT PoP train (Advanced Passenger Train)
APT PoP train to develop the tilt system and other active suspensions

Fashionable hats 1937
Model wearing fashionable hats tilted forward with mesh net covering face. Date: 1937

The Tilt Hotel, Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland Date: 1931

Westland WE-02 large tilt-rotor concept
Westland WE-02 large, tilt-rotor concept seating 80 passengers. July 1968. Date: 1968

Shear and Tilt Hammers at Fitzalan Steel Works, Sheffield, Y

Llandudno / Great Orme
The Great Orme, towering above the rooftops of Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, Wales, showing the rock tilt, or slip, in the limestone. Date: 1950s

Eglinton Tournament 2
General view of the tilt- ground : no expense has been spared to re-create the ambiance of a medieval tournament, while catering for some 100, 000 spectators ! Date: 30 August 1839

Eglinton Tournament 3
The Lord of the Tournament - the Earl - rides to the tilt- ground with his Esquires and Retainers; the event will almost cripple him financial- -ly, but bring lasting fame. Date: 30 August 1839

Hampton Court Tennis
Lawn tennis in Hampton Court Tilt Yard: some are playing, some hold racquets and chat, others watch and walk by the courts

Hat with Aigrette C1913
Blonde woman wears a soft hat with an aigrette, a blouse with a scallop edged turn down collar, a large green pendant & a wrap-over garment in an eastern style print

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