Tongue Collection (page 2)

Spineless butchers broom, Ruscus hypoglossum
Spineless butchers broom or horse tongue lily, Ruscus hypoglossum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi

Painted tongue, Salpiglossis sinuata (Dark purple salpiglossis, Salpiglossis atropurpurea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by M

Depressed tongue fig-marigold, Mesembryanthemum depressum. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816

Fan aloe, Aloe plicatilis (Tongue aloe, Aloe lingua). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, T

Cow tongue under the microscope: veal tongue showing different papillae 1, foliate papilla 2, filiform papillae 3, and fungiform papillae 4

Kittens lapping milk on a greetings postcard
Kittens lapping milk from various containers on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Monsters face with tab pull on a greetings card
Monsters face with tab pull on a movable greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Black Tongue
Chief Black Tongue of the Cheyenne tribe, wrapped in a blanket and holding a Head and Tail Fan traditionally used in ritual dance. Photograph by David Frances Barry. Date: 1880

Curtis British Entomology Plate 450
Coleoptera: Aspidophorus orbiculatus (Sphindidae. Orbicular Dermestes) [Plant: Cynoglossum officinale (Common Hound?s Tongue)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 302
Coleoptera: Pelophila borealis (Irish Nebria) [Plant: Ophioglossum vulgatum (Common Adder?s Tongue)] Date: 1824-39

GERMAN SHEPHERDS 1969
CHAMPION FENTON OF KENTWOOD (left) (Crufts Best in Show 1965) & CHAMPION HENDRAWN NIBELUNG OF CHARAVIGNE (right) (Crufts Best in Show 1969). Date: 1969

NAILING WOMANS TONGUE
The best way to silence a suffragette or any woman who demands her rights! Date: 1913

FALL / CHOW CHOW / 1958
ADEL TANGLIN Panting dog, showing its dark tongue. The breed has a blue tongue. Owner: Buckley Date: 1958

Fall - Gsd - 1935 - Group
A group of Mrs Leslie Thorntons celebrated Southdown alsatians. Date: 1935

FALL / BERNESE MOUNTAIN / 73
DUNTIBLAE NALLE (DOG) Owned by Cochrane. Imported from Sweden in 1973. Date: 1973

Suffragette woman in the stocks, unsympathetic cartoon
Unsympathetic comment on Votes or Women Date: 1913

Illustrated page from the Welschen Gast
An illustrated page from Der Waelschen Gast (The Foreign Visitor, or The Italian Visitor) of the medieval writer Thomasin von Zirclaere. The title refers to himself, as his mother tongue was Italian

Child sticks toungue out, Bangkok
A small boy in traditional Thai straw hat pulls his tongue out at the camera at the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, Bangkok Date: circa 1985

African Lion - lioness with mouth open (Panthera leo). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania

Palawan Monitor Lizard - rests on a path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) to smell a visitor (Varanus marmoratus)

National Health Insurance Stamp - Take a bit of licking
This Stamp will take a bit of licking - the introduction of the National Health Insurance stamp under the 1911 National Insurance Act

Byzantine Art. Relief depicting a lion on the facade of the Church of St. Nicholas, built in the 13th century and remodeled in 18th and 19th centuries. Mesopotam. Albania

Mirza Mohammed Ali Beg
MIRZA MOHAMMED ALI BEG Turkish translator of the Christian Bible into his native tongue. Date: ? - 1675

Advertisement for Poulton & Noel Ltd of London, luxury foods. Date: early 20th century

Five humanised cats on a Christmas card -- three of them are ill in bed, and the doctor cat asks one to: Show your tongue! Date: circa 1890s

Anti-Suffragette Valentine. Anti-suffrage Valentine shows woman with toothache and swollen jaw that stops her tongue from wagging. Date: circa 1910

If Germany Wins -- the Kaisers sons, WW1
A rather sickening and defeatist (or perhaps tongue-in-cheek) item, suggesting what might happen if Germany wins the First World War

Borsippa, Iraq - The ziggurat - Tower of Babel
Borsippa, Iraq - The ziggurat, or " Tongue Tower" - identified in the Talmud and Arab culture with the Tower of Babel. Date: circa 1920

Silhouette of a chow chow

Satirical cartoon with Turkish and German soldiers, WW1
A satirical cartoon showing a fat German soldier strangling a thin Turkish soldier during the First World War. The cartoon (in French) reads: The brave Turk is afraid of no-one

Portrait of a Golden Labrador
A detailed portrait painting by Malcolm Greensmith of a Golden Labrador, panting after a long run/play

Dr Syntax in danger. Syntax is unwell and tended to by a doctor who asks him to put his tongue out; servants panic and one rushes in with a dish of boiling water accompanied by an excitable dog

Susi - with toy spaniel, 1950s

Closeup of a bulldog
Unusual Friends - closeup of a bulldog. 1950s

Corgi dog on patterned carpet
Unusual Friends - Corgi dog on patterned carpet. 1950s

Tabby cat and kitten in basket
Unusual Friends - tabby cat and kitten in basket. 1950s

Large dog yawning
Unusual Friends - large dog yawning. 1950s

Small puppy licking tabby kitten
Unusual Friends - small puppy licking tabby kitten. 1950s

Tabby and white kitten with empty saucer
Unusual Friends - tabby and white kitten with an empty saucer, probably hoping for more milk. 1950s

Susi - licking a window on a rainy day. 1950s

Susi - relaxing in her basket. 1950s

Susi - yawning. 1950s

Fantastic Adventures - Keeper of the Flame by Burt B. Stone. A Beautiful Brunette woman in a sparkly blue dress is held, suspended within a pillar of flame

Clowns face on a hat-shaped Christmas card
Clown sticking his tongue out and winking on a hat-shaped New Year card. circa 1890s

A young boy pulls out his tongue in Salford! Date: circa 1979

Comic heads on fifteen Victorian scraps
Comic heads of men and women on fifteen Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Lion cub in a basket
Close-up of a home-raised lion cub in a basket, yawning. Date: circa 1960s

Dog with a large bone
Oscar the dog, having collected a large, juicy bone from a local butchers shop in Eastbourne, Sussex, pulls it home on a roller skate. He is seen here at home, holding the bone and licking his lips

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