Watch Collection (page 4)

Les Rendez-vous De Madame De Z. Part IV
Part IV of a series of sketches which portrays a rather impatient looking gentleman sat in a hallway of the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees, a museum in Paris, looking towards his pocket watch

The Embarkation Of The Black Watch To Fontenoy
This painting depicts the Black Watch, a Scottish infantry regiment, boarding ships destined for Belgium, for the forthcoming battle of Fontenoy

Cunard White Star, On Watch for Nearly a Century - The British Tradition Distinguishes Cunard White Star, 13.5 x 14.25 inches

Sannomiya Dori, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

P & O Lines - miscellaneous items
P & O Lines - miscellaneous plated ware, 3d items and shipboard souvenirs. Date: 20th century

RAF cadets watching an instructional film, WW2
RAF cadets watching an instructional film Date: circa 1941

RAF cadets watch an expert demonstrating the controls, WW2
RAF cadets watch an expert demonstrating the controls Date: circa 1941

Chronometers Date: circa 1898

Four eclipse spectators Date: 1925

Workmen watch RMS Queen Mary on River Clyde
Workers down tools to watch RMS Queen Mary making her way down the River Clyde Date: 1936

Fortune Telling with a Crystal Ball at the local Fete Date: circa 1947

Hardy Bros Advertisement
An advertisement for Hardy Bros Ltd, Sydney based jewellers and silversmiths, with a decorative red border, promoting gem set watches, including an octagonal wrist watch in platinum

Crucifixion
An oil painting depicting a trio of crucifixions under the watch of a packed crowd. Date: circa 1930

Advert for Asprey of Bond Street, showcasing new watch designs by Patek Philippe. Date: 1939

Beachy Head view down the cliffs to the sea and lighthouse
The picture looks down from the top of the cliffs over a beach to a lighthouse in the sea and beyond to a small steamer. Lloyds once had a signalling station at the Watch Tower on the cliff

2nd Black Watch Private and Bass Drummer South African Kit
One of a series of postcards depicting Types of the British Army Date: 1905

Oliver Cromwell's watch and case
Oliver Cromwell's silver watch and shagreen case. Date: 17th century

Constitutionalists Repair Railway Destroyed by Federalists
A group of Constitutionalists repair a railroad destroyed by federalist forces. Several men repair the metal tracks as others move wood, clear the track, or watch from a parked locomotive ahead

Fumigating Westminster Hall, 1971
Canisters of pesticide in smoke form being used by the Department of the Environment in 1971 to fumigate Westminster Hall in London

Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of death
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story The Lavender vine of death by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building

Lady Trumpington and Nigel Wright discuss Sunday trading
The Conservative peer Lady Trumpington (Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington, b.1922) and Nigel Wright, the Dickie Dirts clothing retailer, discuss the issue of Sunday trading, 4 February 1982

Cutter at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Ypres, The City of Death, Cloth Hall and St Martin's Church
Ypres - The City of Death showing the shelled Cloth Hall and St. Martin's Church. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holiday'S Early Life Was Spent In St

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Irun. Militia at the Loyola bridge

Sir John Tenniel, artist, illustrator and cartoonist
Sir John Tenniel (1820 - 1914), British artist, illustrator and political cartoonist, who had just died. Seen here with two of his most famous Punch cartoons

How to Make Roof-Spotting a Pleasure
William Heath Robinson invention for keeping watch from attack. A warden perched up high above the streets with an umbrella for protection, tea-cup-holder and an easy chair. Date: 1941

Stirling Moss, English racing driver
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (b 1929), English racing driver from 1948 to 1962. He retired after a crash left him in a coma for a month. His name has become synonymous with speed. Date: circa 1960s

Scott Peter Bald Balding Sir Markham 1909 1989
scott, peter, bald, balding, sir, markham, 1909, 1989, british, english, ornithologist, ornithology, birds, conservation, conservationist, painter, artist, naval, navy, officer, sailor, olympic

Peter Thorneycroft, British Conservative politician
George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft (1909-1994), British Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1957 to 1958

Crowd listening to live music on the bandstand in Battersea Park, London. Date: late 1890s

POET WRITING IN GARRET
A poet writing in a garret (illustration to The Poet and the Death-Watch Beetle) Date: 1761

HUNS MAKE KIDS SEE DEATH
Germans force Belgian children to watch their parents being shot, before being shot themselves Date: 1917

PTINUS FATIDICUS Death-watch beetle, believed to foretell a death in the house when they are heard tapping on wood Date: 1805

Two men watch with interest as a lady picks roses Date: 1872

FAMILY REUNITED
Angels watch as a family is reunited in the next world - husband and wife restored to the age at which they met Date: 1808

LITTLE GEORGIE
How the Dead watch over the Living in America - when Little Georgie is in difficulty, he is protected by the spirit of his dead mother - Date: 1887

Her Majestys Ship Majestic keeping watch over the Steam-Rams in the Mersey. Date: 1863

Simply Simon Cartoon Strip by Iris Chick in Tail-Wagger-Magazine. Date: 1938

Original Artwork - Stirring the Christmas cake mixture
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas Good Cheer greetings card. Mother stirring the Christmas cake mixture while her two children watch. Date: circa 1937

Design for a Christmas Good Luck card
Design for a Christmas Good Luck greetings card. Mother stirring the Christmas cake mixture while her two children watch. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, People watching the Coronation - or trying to Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two drunken men in the street Date: 20th century

Comic birthday postcard, Two boys about to fight as girl watches Date: 20th century

Christmas postcard, Drunken man going home with goodies from the Goose Club Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Good Egg
The caption is Good Egg. As the egg has not yet been opened let us hope so. A good egg is of course used to describe a reliable person

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Watch your step
The postcard caption reads Watch your step. The little girl is wearing white. Warime privations meant that fine materials for wedding dresses were hard to come by

Train and Aeroplane
Children watch an express train and a bi-plane the appear to be racing one another. Artist: Elizabeth Travis Date: 1912

Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58

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