Trapping Collection

Celtic Relics, Personal Ornaments of Gold and Bronze. Gold bracelet, three bronze fibulas, enamelled bronze horse trapping, enamelled ring, bronze torque, gold torque, gold earring, bronze ornament

USA trapper / hunter pre-1900

Trapping cucumber maggots with person hiding in cold frame
Trapping the cucumber maggot caricature illustration of person hiding in cold frame to trap maggots, by Heath Robinson. Captioned, A Garden Guide: Horticultural Hints'

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

Dassault-Breguet Super etendard 25
Aeronavale - Dassault-Breguet Super etendard 25 after trapping the wire, landing on board Foch or Clemenceau, during an operational cruise

Why Not Matches? WWI cartoon by William Heath Robinson
Lights for All: Trapping Glow Worms in Kensington Gardens. A typically ridiculous idea by Heath Robinson for trapping glow worms, thus providing light for Londoners during the black out. Date: 1917

A Leopard catches a Peacock
A Leopard pounces on a Peacock, whose flights from its perch is not fast enough for the big cats paw. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Wreck of the Herefordshire on the Cadigan coast, trapping th
The wreck of the Herefordshire, seen here on the Cardigan coast. The old liner broke away from the tugs in stormy conditions, endangering her four crew

Folding chair in ash wood. Second half of 1400 BC. Bronze Age. Guldhoj barrow, Southern Jutland. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Coypu Trapping
Coypu (or Swamp Beaver ) trapping on the Suffolk marshes, England. South American rodents, introduced to Britain in 1929, before escaping and breeding wild. Date: 1960s

View of the Harbour, Montreal
19th Century transport. A birch bark canoe approaching a three masted cargo sailing ship with a steam powered vessel behind it in Montreal harbour

The Cow and Plate Polecat Trapper
Another ingenious idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson, the gadget king, for a cow and plate pole-cat trapper on the Catskill Mountains

Antelope Trapper
Tom Redford of Fort Davis, in charge of the antelope trapping project, seen here on horseback on a hilltop overlooking the drive, U.S.A. Date: 1930s

The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France - Trap for fish
The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France. These constructions of long supported poles and igh nets were arranged as a trap for fish

Fisherwomen - Vietnam Date: 1910s

Ladybird
A waterlogged ladybird on the edge of a leaf, unable to move until droplet dries

Basket fisher women - Thailand - A line of women and children with baskets in each hand going in a straight line from one end of a small klong to the other, catching or rather trapping the fish

Trapping lynx, Russia. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Trapping in Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway
A trapper at work in Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway Date: circa 1907

Man carrying an eel trap
A man carrying a wickerwork eel trap on his back. More traps can be seen in the background

Lynx caught in trap
A lynx is caught by the leg in a steel jaw trap

Trapping Whelks on the Shores of the Caspian Sea by W. Heath
The first illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) to appear in The Sketch on March 21st 1906. Part of a humorous series called, The Gentle Art of Catching Things

American Indians. The Sugar Camp
American Indian camp, where Passamaquoddy Indians have been tapping trees, boiling maple syrup and trapping furs during the Winter months

American Civil war. Confederates trapping a boats crew of t
The Potomac River, Virginia, was one of the key battle grounds during the Civil War. This scene shows a Confederate soldier shooting towards the shore from where the Unionists were firing at

Beaver Hunting / America
Trapping for Beaver

Mice / Dormice 1555
Two men capture mice and dormice in traps

Trapping Beaver 1555
Trapping for beaver with nets in Scandinavia

Trapping Partridges
Stalking partridges in Scandinavia : a hunter pretends to be a harmless cow, but at the crucial moment he pulls a net down on the birds

Trapping Alle Alle Birds
Trapping the Little Auk (Alle Alle) on the White Sea

Portable Searchlight
A soldier equipped with a portable searchlight can detect an enemy at night - though in this instance, all he has detected is a poacher trapping a rabbit

Decorative Bird
Decorative bird on the bough of a fruit tree

The Poacher Detected
THE POACHER DETECTED. He will probably be hanged, but if the magistrate is merciful he may simply be transported to Australia for the rest of his life

Stone Age Hunting
Trapping a mammoth in the Stone Age (Paleolithic era) Date: circa 3000 BC

Futuristic gull hunters. They are in diving gear below the water, trapping the gulls by floating food on the surface

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