Verso Collection

Miniature silhouette - Captain Alfred Arnold Ernest Gyde
Miniature bust-length silhouette in ebonised frame of Captain Alfred Arnold Ernest Gyde, 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment. He is in Mess Dress uniform

Photograph of the steam locomotive Lord Faringdon 1169, fitted with the Robinson superheater. Signed Mr G Robinson, with specifications for the locomotive on the verso. Date: circa 1880s

Preface to Martial's Epigrammata by Merula
Two attached folios, paper, probably the endpaper and first leaf of a volume. Folio 1, which would have been the endpaper

Legal Text? (Fragment)
Two fragments from the same manuscript, parchment. Original text unknown. Text is in a cursive documentary script in brown in a single column recto and verso on both fragments

Justinian's Codex, Book V. XIII (Fragment)
Single folio, parchment, from Justinian's Codex. The text on this leaf is from Book V.XIII Dei Uxoriae Actione 1.1.a. Main body text and marginal gloss with additional minute gloss on verso

Justinian's Codex, Book IIII. XX (Fragment)
Single folio, parchment, from Justinian's Codex. The text on this folio is taken from Book IIII.XX De Testibus 20. Comprised of a main body text and a marginal gloss with additional minute gloss

Euripides Medea (Fragment)
Minute fragment from Euripides Medea, v.1057-1062, parchment. From a codex, main body text in brown in a rounded unical hand

List?
Single folio, paper, with numbered paragraphs on the recto, possibly an itemised list. Blank on the verso. Text in a German cursive in brown ink, no line rulings. Date: 15th Century

Financial Records?
Manuscript records on paper, possibly financial or legal records. Probably originally pages from a volume or volumes, they have been cut into regularly sized rectangles

Unidentified Fragment
Fragment of a leaf of a manuscript, parchment. Text in Middle German(?). The text block has wide margins above, beneath and to the left-hand side but the leaf has been cut down the right-hand side

John Gower, Confessio Amantis (Fragments)
Four leaves (2 bifolia) from an illuminated manuscript copy of Gower's Confessio Amantis, parchment. The text is the B version and is part of Book V

Hetton Colliery Railway locomotive. Verso stamped John R Moore, photographer, 48 Crowtree Road, Sunderland. Inscribed in pencil H Stephens, Quay. Date: circa 1901

Atlantic type compound locomotive, 4-4-2 engine, side elevation. Stamped verso H Wasteels, Bruxelles, 13 Juil 1905. Date: 1905

Locomotive no 213, 4-6-0. Inscribed verso One of the new 6-coupled passenger express engines built at Glasgow decorated for the tour of HRH the Prince & Princess on the GIP. Electric headlight

Class 860 steam locomotive by Richard Francis Trevithick. The first locomotive built in Japan, side view. Stamped versos Ichida, Kobe. Date: 1893

Unidentified locomotive no 11257, side elevation. By J Gabriel, possibly for EB Wilson. Inscribed similar to Jenny Lind (by EB Wilson, 1848) except fluting of dome omitted, whistle omitted

Libbys Happy Families Card Game Rules, paper bag verso. circa 1950s

Sindh, 2-4-0 locomotive. Inscribed verso Old GIPR 4 passenger engine built by Kitson in 18- and sold to old IMRy [Indian Midland Railway] in - Since reverted to GIPR'. Date: circa 1905

Horse box 665, rolling stock photograph. Inscribed verso New horse box built at Parel to carry 6 horses. Steel underframe'. Date: circa 1905

Third class carriage interior. Inscribed verso Interior of III class local car GIPR. New local trains, turn over seats, electric lights'. Date: circa 1905

Trial train of 12 vestibuled corridor cars
Inscribed verso Trial train of 12 vestibuled corridor cars, over 400 tons with 6 cpl goods engine - to imitate requirements of Royal train, GIPR'. Date: circa 1905

Mail train under steam. Inscribed verso 4 coupled express locomotive with the Calcutta mail train at Jhansi'. Date: circa 1905

King George V, message to the Empire record (verso), HMV, His Masters Voice, 78 rpm. Broadcast on Christmas Day, 1935. 1935

The Curl, Donegal; verso, Cart at Buxton (1866). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1866

Armours Hole, Newcastle, Co. Down; verso, Barges, Fleetwood (1846). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1846

Folkestone, Kent; verso, Belfast Lough (1849). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1849

Giants Causeway; verso, Port Moon (1844). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1844

Gibbs Happy Families - packaging back. 20th century

Captain Augustus Hartmann, 2nd Line Battalion, Kings German Legion, 1815.Oil on panel by Paul Dumortier, Tournai, 1815.Painted shortly before the Battle of Waterloo.Head and shoulders to right

The month of May, tree festival, miniature from the Grimani Breviary, folio 5, verso. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Sant Jordi Catalan Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Proc: ITALY

A portrait of Corporal Kitchen Pen & Ink sketch verso
A portrait of Corporal Kitchen. Pen & Ink sketch verso. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St

Study of a group of soldiers, Chislehurst Landscape verso
Study of a group of soldiers, Chislehurst. Landscape verso. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St

A billet in Cromwell Gardens of Artist PJ Hill
A billet in Cromwell Gardens showing a corner of a room with a decorated ceiling. Kit hanging on the wall above the bed.Inscribed verso - 112 stairs up. 21017 Private P. J

Sunset somewhere in. WWI drawing
Sunset somewhere in. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Just a few lines hoping you are in the best of health. I wrote you a few days ago and expect you will have received some ere this. Love. Yours always. B

Ciss on Rose Day - WWI postcard
Ciss on Rose Day. Won t you buy my pretty flower. Caricature of Ciss. Includes card saying Happy Christmas with pressed leaf and ribbon (one leaf missing). Card on verso reads To Ciss

Waiting to have his shirt examined. In the hands of the Louse Patrol. Somewhere in France. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Enclosed you will find 14 PCs which I hope you will like also the programme of

WWI hand-crafted and embossed triptych
First World War hand-crafted and embossed triptych. The three panels are as follows. Left screen - BY THE MYSTERY OF THY HOLY INCARNATION

Arguing the Point Somewhere in France
Arguing the Point. Somewhere in France. On verso - Dearest Cis, Just a few lines hoping you are well. Enclosed you will find PPC which I hope you will like. I am still in. Card entitled 1

The best Field Ambulance in the 2nd Army
1NFA, RAMC. Swank - a feather in our Caps. The best Field Ambulance in the 2nd Army (ex Headquarter orders). Somewhere in France. On verso - This is a French post card for Prisoners. B

A dream of the past - A large glass of beer
A dream of the past. A large glass of beer. Dear C, Going gradually to a great spot. Somewhere in France. Verso - Field Post Office TN, dated 11th May 15. Censor stamp 1560 and signed E. B. Kitching

Gott strafe England (For I can t)
Gott strafe England. (For I can t). France. Censor stamp and signed E. B. K(itching) - see No. 4489, note on Censor. Message verso - From what I read, he is taking London by storm

A roaring lion and Union Jack with nervous looking Kaiser
Roused. A roaring lion and Union Jack with a rather nervous looking Kaiser. On a card stamped Fiield Post Office, T50, 12th June 1915. Censor stamp No. 1569 and signed E. P. Kitching

Miniature - Lieutenant Robert (Roy) Scovell Richardson
Oval portrait miniature on ivory of Lieutenant Robert (Roy) Scovell Richardson. Engraved on case, verso - Lieutenant Robert Scovell Richardson, MC, Machine Gun Corps. Born 8th May 1893

Pontoons looking left towards Antwerp
Siege of Antwerp 1914. Pontoons looking left towards Antwerp. Made and painted by the men of the 1st Royal Naval Division who were interned at Groningen, Holland. Signed Seaman S

Pontoons looking right towards Antwerp
Siege of Antwerp 1914. Pontoons looking right towards Antwerp. Made and painted by the men of the 1st Royal Naval Division who were interned at Groningen, Holland. Signed Seaman S

Our Billet - Somewhere in France
Our Billet. Somewhere in France. On verso - Monday, May 8th 1916. Dearest Ciss, This is a sketch of our Billet where we are resting at present and will give you a good idea how pretty the place is

On 6 a m Parade Somewhere in France
On 6 a.m. Parade. Somewhere in France. On verso the best of health. Card entitled 2. See 4511 for card entitled 1 and beginning of text

Ready for the 1st of July 1916 - details verso, WW1
Ready for the 1st of July 1916 - details verso. By Sergeant-Major George R. Spragg, Royal Army Medical Corps, 54th Field Ambulance attached 18th Division. Date: 1916

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