Variety Collection (page 9)

Fancy Dress at the Royal Victoria Hospital Bournemouth. Large group in wide variety of costumes ? and matron in the centre. Reverse annotated Royal Victoria Hospital Bournemouth 1930s Date: circa 1930

Loose page from a scrapbook of crests and heraldry
Loose page from a former scrapbook of crests and heraldry featuring family crests, coats of arms and many devices, shields, monograms and mottos! Date: late 19th century

AUTUMNAL TREES BY ERIE
Autumnal tints on Lake Erie, seen in a variety of plants and trees growing by the shore Date: 19th century

SOCIAL / LONDON GIN SHOP
Tom and Jerry at a London Gin Shop, drinking Blue Ruin with a variety of fellow-customers. Date: 1820

PLANTS TRANSPORTED / 1860
A variety of plants being transported from Holland to France by steam barge using the network of canals Date: 1860

WINDOW SHOPPING FOR HATS
A variety of hats on stands atop hat boxes are displayed against an upholstered back- drop in a fashionable milliners shop. Two ladies in hats admire the display. Date: 1930s

WAKEFIELD FRUIT WOMAN
The Wakefield fruit woman and her blind daughter sell a variety of fruit and vegetables from their stall; unusually the daughter has short hair Date: 19th century

ASSORTED DOG BREEDS
A variety of breeds from St Bernard to Zwergaffenpinscher (the scruffy one lower left); the dangerous-looking black- and-white dog upper right is the Deutsche Tiger-Dogge Date: circa 1890

The Worthing Pier Pavilion. Performing were the Co-Optimists, a variety revue from London starring: Laddie Cliff, Elsa Macfarlane, Stanley Holloway, Davy Burnaby, Melville Gideon, Babs Valerie

The Coliseum in St. Martins Lane nearing completion
The Coliseum in St. Martins Lane, pictured nearing completion with hoardings announcing three stages in one. Designed by renowned theatre architect Frank Matcham for the impresario Oswald Stoll

Stage performers - The Norman Bros. - Tumblers - USA. Date: circa 1928

Dr Guthries Boys Industrial School, Liberton, Edinburgh
Thomas Guthries Boys Industrial School opened in 1888 on Lasswade Road, Liberton, Edinburgh. Industrial Schools, often privately run

Variety of Fashionable headwear in the 1910s
Variety of Womens Fashionable headwear in the 1910s, from wide-brimmed hats with bows and feathers to smaller caps and bonnets - paving the way toward the familiar styles of the later 1920s

Banking Expressions Illustrated - A Good Balance. The reverse message for this card rather wonderfully reads: " What Ho!" Date: 1904

Paul Cinquevalli (1859 1918), German entertainer whose speciality juggling act was popular, known as (King of the Jugglers), who could catch a cannon ball on his neck

Theodore Hardeen brother of Harry Houdini 1905
Theodore Hardeen (1876 1945), Hungarian magician and escape artist, younger brother of the famous Harry Houdini, (with whom he formerly worked with), known simply as Hardeen or Brother of Houdini

Jakob Koch (1871 - 1918), German amateur wrestler. Date: 1905

Spoons, forks and fish knives, Plate 220
Spoons and forks, fish knives and forks, electro silver plated on best nickel silver, Plate 220. Date: circa 1880s

Trade catalogue for lamp stands and shades 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of Edwardian telescopic floor lamp stands and shades. Date: 1911

Royal Variety Performance 1965
A dozen of the 21 acts lined up for the Royal Variety Performance 1965. From left, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, Shirley Bassey, Jack Benny, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dusty Springfield

Pigeons - A Red Helmet, Black Lahore and Yellow Spot
A portrait of three breeds of fancy pigeon illustrated inside their coop. The plain-headed Red Helmet presents its bicoloured plumage formation

Pigeons - Varieties of Ice Pigeons, Fancy Breed
An Ural, Silver, Siberian and Blue Ice Pigeons are seen here illustrated inside a pigeon coop, as known as a loft. The Ice Pigeon is a domesticated and fancy breed of pigeon

Pigeons - English Fantails or Garden Fantails
A portrait of a Black, White and Blue English Fantail pictured inside their coop. The English Fantail is a highly developed breed of fancy and exhibition pigeon, and sub-variety of the Fantail

Jacqmar silk scarves, 1955
A variety of silk scarves with floral designs by famed textile firm, Jacqmar. Date: 1955

Portrait of Louis Wain taken from an advertisement for Phosferine, a tonic medicine, featuring Louis Wain, the famous cat artist

Repeating Pattern - Assorted Fruit. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

A collection of beetles
A diverse selection of beetles (coleoptera) from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Corundum variety ruby; crystal and gems
Crystal and gem specimens of ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). Corundum has two varieties, the other being sapphire

Peepshows at Brighton
Two men looking at peepshows of the What the Butler Saw variety in Brighton; one machine is advertised as Naughty! Naughty! Date: 1950s

Fantasy Japanese landscape with bird
Fantasy Japanese landscape featuring a songbird perched on a variety of blossoms, a stylised sun and snow-capped volcanic peak, similar to the iconic outline of Mount Fuji

Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle
Charles Darwin during his voyage on the HMS Beagle in the 1830s, when he discovered a variety of flora and fauna and begins to have thoughts about the origin of species and evolution

A Variety of Mens Hats
A selection of mens hats, including a Bowler Hat, a Tweed Cap, a soft felt hat, a best silk hat, an opera hat, a chauffeurs cap, a Ladies Riding hat and a Tweed hat

Arthur Prince ventriloquist
Arthur Prince (1881 1946), music hall entertainer and ventriloquist, with his puppeteered dummy Sailor Jim, seated upon his knee. Date: 1905

Fred Russell ventriloquist
Fred Russell (1862 1957) Irish ventriloquist, with his puppeteered dummy Coster Joe, seated upon his knee. Date: 1905

Madame Marzella with white cockatoos 1905
Music Hall star, Madame Marzella with her cockatoos. Date: 1905

Page of Victorian adverts 1889
A variety of advertisements in The Graphic dated August 1889, showing Nuda Veritas hair restorer, Nubian, black polish for boots and shoes, Nortons Camomile Pills, for indigestion

Flo Hastings and Wee Georgie Wood
Late 19th/early 20th century music hall performers Flo Hastings (1880-?) and Wee Georgie Wood (1894-1979), attending a screening of rare clips of early music hall acts at the National Film Theatre in

Schmidts Shop Window
The shop window of Schmidts famous German delicatessen on Charlotte Street, London, with a vast variety of tinned and preserved goods on display, a taste of Germany in London. Date: 1930s

Variety of birds eggs
1- swallow, 2- cuckoo, 3- rook, 4- crow, 5- jackdaw, 6- jay, 7- sparrowhawk, 8- kestrel, 9- ringed plover, 10- snipe, 11- black tern, 12- common tern. Date: 1894

Advert for Maple & Co. lamps 1892
Various floor lamps in solid brass, wrought iron and copper, each lamp is fitted with a patent self-extinguished burner. 1892

Advert for Spiers & Ponds stores, oil lamps 1898
Selection of Victorian oil lamps available from Spiers & Pond s, hardware department. 1898

Still life of pink roses by Fortunino Matania
A variety of pink and peach coloured roses in a blue and white vase. Date: c.1950

Pigeons - A Portrait of Three Magies, German Toy Breed
Three Magpies standing together in an outdoor scenery, and a church pictured in the background. The illustrated magpies are of the German variety and a breed of German Toy pigeon

Pigeons - Varieties of Swallows, German Toy Breed
A portrait of four varieties of Swallows. The yellow, black, red and blue Swallows are a breed of German Toy pigeons. The Swallows in the outdoor scenery are also illustrated in such a way to present

Pigeons - Frill-Backs and Scandaroons, Fancy Breed
A portait illustrating two Frill-Back and two Scandaroon pigeons. Both breeds are domesticated and a breed of fancy pigeon

Pigeons - Three Russian Trumpeters, Fancy Breed
Three Russian Trumpeters, Black-Mottled, Black and White, are seen here in their coop. The illustration presents the breeds unique feathering which radiates from around their heads

Pigeons - Scotch Fantails or Broad-Tailed Shakers
A portrait of a White, White Laced and Black-Saddle Back Scotch Fantail pigeons, also known as Broad-Tailed Shakers. The Fantail is a popular breed of fancy pigeon

Triumphant variety of Cattleya trianae orchid.. Illustration drawn by C. de Bruyne and chromolithographed by P. de Pannemaeker from Lucien Lindens Lindenia, Iconography of Orchids, Brussels, 1903

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