Weird Collection (page 2)

Line-Drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci Ornithopter Design Cir?
Line-Drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci Ornithopter Design Circa 1500 Date: 1500s

McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
Mcdonnell Xf-85 Goblin Unusual-Design This Was the First Prototype Built But it Was the Second to Fly Date: 1949

Cordy Mobilopter Unusual Design by Harry Cordy Date: 1931

North American F-82 Twin Mustang Unusual Design Created by Mating 2 Modified P-51 Mustangs Together Date: 1940s

Filper Beta 200 Unusual Design Twin-Rotored Helicopter Date: 1966

Kellett XR-8
A Kellett Xr-8 Egg Shaped Synchropter Helicopter Unusual Design During a Test-Flight Also Known As the Egg-Beater Date: 1945

de Rouge Elytroplan
Comte Charles de Rouge Sisma De Rouge Elytroplan Unusual Design Aircraft Flying Date: 1936

Hiller VZ-1E Pawnee
Hiller Vz-1E Pawnee Vtol Prototype Flying Platform Unusual Design During a Test-Flight Date: 1958

Impressive Tall Cactus Grove and pot seller - Mexico
Impressive Tall Mexican Fence Post Cactus Grove (Pachycereus Marginatus) and a pot seller (carrying his wares on his back) - Mexico. Date: 1910s

French April Fools Card - Flying Fish Aeroplane sending Best Wishes.....!! Date: circa 1909

The Nurse of the Negus Menelik of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). She certainly appears to have nursed a few in her time... Date: circa 1910s

Union Square showing the Battleship Recruit, New York, USA
Union Square showing the (wooden) Battleship Recruit, New York, USA. Date: circa 1910s

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire
The Passage and doorway of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire - Doorway
The Doorway of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire - Sitting Room
The Sitting Room of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

Stork-powered baby transport! Date: circa 1910s

The Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
The Magnetic Hill is an example of a gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain. It is located at the northwestern edge (in the Magnetic Hill Area)

Beira, Mozambique - Private tram-car system
Beira, Mozambique - The private tram-car system - undoubtedly one of the most unusual forms of conveyance in the world. The cars ran on tiny tracks which rose out of the sand

Three little boys go for a ride on the back of a bullock. Free Rides - Hurry up now for a ride, room for just two more outside. Date: circa 1909

St. Michan's Mummies - St. Michan's Church - Dublin, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Spirit Photograph - Family Group
A small-format Spirit Photograph showing a Family Group, possibly mourning a dead baby, although all the figures have an air of ghostly form, especially the seated woman/Mother

Fantastic Adventures - The living Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story The living Dead by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger with pincers fights a weird looking red lion while a woman climb up a tree to

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

Fantastic Adventures - Dr. Destiny Master of the Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, June 1940, featuring the story Dr. Destiny Master of the Dead by Robert Moore Williams. A weird looking man with a huge head sits on a chair pressing buttons

Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a game
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man

Jumbo's joy in the hot weather: Elephants shooting the chute at the Franco-British Exhibition held at White City, London 1908 Date: 1908

SCHOOL FOR SKELETONS
A bizarre school for skeletons, with two skeletons playing a piano duet, one skeleton dunce on a chair in the corner and another skeleton carrying a basket! Date: early 1930s

Foot-shaped comic postcard, mother and five daughters
A mother (the life and sole of the family) and her five little toe daughters - a brilliant Edwardian comic postcard, open to multiple interpretations! Date: 1907

Viva Paris. Pierre Cardins suit in white wool gabardine (by Fournier) single-breasted with an officer collar and a front panel of semi-circular cutouts

"The question was, were the mirrors in the corners of the room positively libellous
" The question was, were the mirrors in the corners of the room positively libellous, or did one look every inch the grotesque figure reflected

1932 Gee Bee Model R Racer Aircraft - in which Mr James Doolittle won the Thompson Trophy at a speed of 252.6 mph - built by Messrs

The Maharajah of Alwars bespoke Lanchester - with carriage section both open and closed. 1924

Joseph Salomonson of Amsterdam The Apostle of Natural Life
Joseph Salomonson of Amsterdam (1853-?) - also known as MEVA The Apostle of Natural Life - a healer and advocate of a return to nature and a more simpler existence

Children in fancy dress - old woman who lived in shoe
Wonderful photograph showing a group of children in fancy dress. Most spectacular is the huge shoe accommodating about six of them

Lady in incredible fancy dress
Photograph of a lady called Rosie dressed in an incredible fancy dress costume consisting of countless items hanging from her dress. Date: 1926

Spirit Photograph - Schemboche
A spirit photograph by Schemboche of an Italian Woman approached by a white robe-draped spirit who places his hand upon her shoulder. Date: circa 1870s

Advert for Swan and Edgar - Christmas present ideas 1928
A selection of weird looking gifts for smokers, all available from Swan and Edgar. Date: 1928

Poster advertising Barnum and Baileys amusements, with curious people and strange performances. Date: 1897

The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway - a unique coastline railway running through the shallow coastal waters of the English Channel between 1896 and 1901. Date: 1896

A Cave house / dwelling at Laon, France
A Reconstructed (Prehistoric?) Cave house / dwelling and occupant at Laon, Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, northern France. Date: circa 1905

Pancake Scramble watched by Royal Family, Westminster School
In March 1919, the Royal Family went to Westminster School to see the famous scramble for the largest piece of the pancake tossed by the chef and to hand the winner a sovereign

KNITTED CONCERTINA MAN
This clever little toy with a wool face, is a concertina man with a monkey on his shoulder. Knitted toys make good Christmas presents! Date: 1930s

TOY CRICKETING CAT
A toy cricketing cat, bat behind him, arms spread wide to catch the cricket ball! Date: 1930s

Weird Hats of 1819
MONSTROSITIES OF 1819 & 1820 A satire on the fashion victims of the day, including various hideous hats. Date: 1819 - 1820

Strange - But True - The Bogey Men and the Beauty Spider. A very charming spider, to be seen at Bertram W. Mills Circus at Olympia, London. Date: 1929

A really very bizarre silhouette postcard depicting a man with a dancing monkey, entertaining a young couple, the gentleman in a suit, the lady in the sheerest of sheer negligees

Earls Court Exhibition of 1902 - The Topsy Turvy House
" Paris in London", the Earls Court Exhibition of 1902 - The Topsy Turvy House. Date: 1902

Flight of a Belle - Witty French postcard showing a glamorous beauty taking flight over the countryside !!! Date: 1905

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