Trap Collection

Winter Landscape with skaters. Pieter Brueghel II, The Younger
Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap 1601. Brueghel, Pieter, II, The Younger, (1564-1638). Oil on wood. Date: 1601

Greyhound Racing at White City
An advertisement for greyhound racing at White City stadium with a painting by Gilbert Holiday. The caption reads: " The trap snaps open...the 30

Advertisement for Hotel du Cap D Antibes
Advertisement for the Hotel du Cap D Antibes at Eden Roc, Antibes on the French Riviera, showing sunbathers and swimmers enjoying the flat rocks that act as such a sun trap for sun worshippers

Zebra-drawn trap of Lord Walter Rothschild
Rothschild broke in and trained several zebras to pull a trap, which he memorably used to visit Buckingham Palace in 1898 Date: 1898

Adventure of the Second Stain, Sherlock Holmes
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN Holmes on the scent: Holmes & Watson discover a hidden trap door. " It hinged back like the lid of a box." Date: 1904

Mouse held away from Mousetrap
" My Wife won t let me!" A male mouse is prevented by his wife from taking the unwise step of trying to obtain a tempting block of cheese from a little wire cage

Gypsy caravan and trap in a wood clearing. Pen & ink with watercolour wash sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Fox Hunting / Accident
A hunting accident - " A squire-trap, by jove", cries Mytton, " a little more and I should have done it" ! English eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) takes a tumble

Lti 20-20 Speed Gun
Metropolitan police officer with LTI 20-20 speed gun checking the speed of cars in the traffic

Haiti - Port au Prince (1 / 3)
The National Bank of Haiti - Port au Prince Date: 1904

Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III*. 303 in bolt action rifle, 1917; introduced in 1916 and differing from the Mk III in having the magazine cut-off omitted; two oil bottles in butt trap. Date: 1917

WW1 - German anti-British propaganda postcard - Caught and Trapped - a duplicitous British Army Officer is captured by the forces of the Central Powers trying to smuggle a machine gun to his men

Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula. Illustration from John Ellis, Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from the East Indies to which is added

Turkish booby trap near Gaza, Palestine, WW1
A Turkish booby trap, made to look inviting by the presence of food and drink, near Gaza, Palestine during the First World War. Date: September 1917

Arrested by an undercover police officer
An undercover female police officer springs her Honey Trap on an unsuspecting criminal, who goes from a jolly evening with a fetching lady to staring down the barrel of a revolver!

Main Street, Toomebridge, Looking South - a street scene with hotel on the left, there is a horse and trap in the middle of the road and a lot of people to the right under a large tree

Town Crier in pony and trap, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
James Smith, Town Crier of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in pony and trap. Seen here passing the butchers shop owned by J Potter, where cuts of meat are on display

Shore Street, Donaghadee - a street scene with shop fronts and a horse and trap on the shore side of the road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Donaghadee). Date: circa early 1900s

Sanitary ware, Plate 42, showing wash basins, urinals and toilet bowls in a range of styles. Date: circa 1880s

Poster, Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases
Ministry of Health poster, Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases -- trap the germs in your handkerchief

Northern Ireland - An Irish Jaunting Car - a light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, in its most common form with seats for two or four persons placed back to back

Aerial view of a horse trap and jockey, taking part in a race

Twist / Evidence Destroyed
The evidence destroyed

Man in pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore
A man wearing a cloth cap sits in a pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. Horse transport is often used as taxis on the islands Date: 1991

McClintons Soap Works, Ballymaclinton, Ireland
Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 - McClintons Soap Works, in the Irish village of Ballymaclinton. 1908

The Sinking of the the Scharnhorst at the Battle of North
Illustration showing the German Battlecruiser Scharnhorst listing to starboard as she sank at the end of the Battle of North Cape, approximately 7.30pm on 26th December 1943

A day at the zoo
Children enjoying an elephant ride on a sunny day at the zoo. A llama and trap can also be seen. Artist: CT Howard. Date: circa 1930

USA trapper / hunter pre-1900

Trap Lane, Padiham, early 1900s

Padiham Trap Lane early 1900s

Alican Land, Sidney Squirrel
A WW2 children's story book illustration from The Story Of Alican Land, written by Joan Hunt. The image shows Mr. Crab using his strong pincers to release Sidney Squirrel from a steel trap

Gallic Wars - Titus Labienus hatches a trap
Gallic Wars (58 BC-50 BC). Titus Labienus hatches a trap to get the Treveri to cross the river before his troops, attacking them later. Engraving

Tastes And Colors You Should Not Discuss
A series of illustrations displaying the use of different colours, a yellow gentleman removing the hat of a man in green with a fishing rod, as he carries away a lady

Congo. Fishermen Wagenya preparing their wooden tripods
History of Africa. 19th century. Fishermen Wagenya preparing their wooden tripods across the river rapids at Stanley Falls. Engraving by W. Meyer

Basket Trap for Salmon
A basket trap, used for catching salmon in the River Severn. Date: 1933

Harry Lowe, Tottenham Hotspur trainer, in action
Harry Lowe one of Tottenham Hotspur's trainers shows how to trap a ball on the run Date: 1946

Caricature illustration of tall house on wheels, pulled by men disguised as a shed, with burglar about to fall into the trap. Captioned, A Moving Cat-astrophe'

Hay loft with trap and cart in Albertville. (Albertville is a subprefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of Southeastern France). Date: 1937

Rose Cottage, Torquay, with pony and trap parked outside. Date: circa 1939

Successful campaign in the Libyan desert. Italian soldiers about to trigger an underground device. Date: 1941

c. 1880s South East Asia - Philippines - pony and trap
c.1880s South East Asia - Philippines - pony and trap

c. 1880s India - European couple with pony and trap, horse an
c.1880s India - European couple with pony and trap, horse and servants

Valders, Norway, pony and trap
Vintage 19th century photograph: Valders, Norway, pony and trap

Pony and trap and servants, British India
19th century vintage photograph: Pony and trap and servants, British India

Customs of Native American peoples
Interpreter Sacagawea reunited with the Shoshone people on Lewis and Clarkes Expedition 49, a Native American presents a tobacco pipe to the Medicine Stone 50

Advert, Anson Double-Rise Target Trap
Advert for the Anson Double-Rise Target Trap (for shooting practice), Birmingham. circa 1900

Medieval bat and ball games
Woman pitching a ball to a man with a bat in the game of club ball, 14th century (top), man holding a ball about to hit it to a catcher in the game of club ball, 14th century (middle)

New gate to the gardens of the Continental Horticultural Company, Ghent, Belgium. Woodcut by Kettenbach from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1883

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