Weird Collection (page 5)

Comic Postcard - Perils of the Demon Drink - Hallucinations caused by taking Littel drops of Whisky and Little Drops of Beer !! Date: circa 1903

Children in fancy dress - clown and princess
Unidentified children in a somewhat sinister fancy dress tableaux. A small boy (at least we assume its a boy) wears a clown outfit

Agra, India - Fabulous Double-decker camel-drawn wagon
Agra, India - An utterly fabulous Double-decker two camel-drawn wagon, with driver perched on the upper level. Date: 1917

Fantastic Adventures - The Liquid Man
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1941, featuring the story The Liquid Man by Bernard C. Gilford. Weird looking man with green skin is going to drink a steaming liquid out of a test tube

Fantastic Adventures - Daughter of the Snake God
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1942, featuring the story Daughter of the Snake God by William P. McGivern and John York Cabot

Hobgoblins, c. 1610
Hobgoblins - a variety of strange creatures, c.1610. Date: C.1610

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar when being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. April

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

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

Turkestan - One man riding a bull and two on a donkey! Date: circa 1909

Le Beouf a la Mode Restaurant - 8, Rue de Valois Paris - since 1792 (the approximate date of this image) Date: circa late 18th century

Jubilee Stamp room, North Bersted, Bognor Regis, West Sussex
The stamp room at The Rising Sun Pub, North Bersted, Bognor Regis. Eventually, in the 1920s, the collector and publican Richard Sharpe retired

Ripleys Believe-it-or-not - Anato Hayes - Odditorium
Ripleys Believe-it-or-not - Human Automobile Tyre - Wilber H. Roden ( Edema ) is inflated with an ordinary air pump to three times his normal size! Odditorium at The New York Worlds Fair of 1940

Monte to Funchal Wicker Toboggan - Madeira, Portugal
Wicker Toboggan transportation from the mountainous village of Monte, Island of Madeira, Portugal down to the Capital, Funchal

First House built in Utah - Deuel Cabin, Salt Lake City
First House built in Utah - Salt Lake City, USA - an old log house built in September 1847 by Osmyn Deuel. Pictured here in a former location under a pergola shelter at the Salt Lake Temple Square

Baby feeding directly from a goat
An Indian Baby feeds directly from a goat in possibly the most bizarre and unsettling postcard ever produced.... Date: circa 1920s

Bears playing in their enclosure
The reverse of this card reads: Even the bears have to learn how to skip in Switzerland - don t you think they are very clever

Long fingernails of a High Class Chinese Man
The extraordinarily long fingernails of a High Class Chinese Man

USA - A showman who walked on his head - descending steps
USA - A showman who walked on his head - shown here descending a set of steps. - Although not named on the card, this is very likely Alexander, part of Ringling Brothers Circus

Fancy dress en route to India, c. 1920
Male passengers on board a ship bound for India posed on deck in a variety of strange fancy dress. There are a few clowns, a nurse and a somewhat sinister chap holding two sheeps heads on plate

White cat with red background
Unusual Friends - white cat with red background. 1950s

Mr Louis Napoleon Parker playing a solo on the Megaphone
Mr Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) " playing a solo" on the Megaphone at the Warwick Pageant of 1906 (the only way he could successfully direct a vast cast)

Faery Visions - a Prank of Strange Birds
Gorgeous illustration showing strange birds perched on branches on unusual trees among lush vegetation. Date: 1929

Two Siamese kittens with yellow background
Unusual Friends - Two Siamese kittens with yellow background. 1950s

English Packet Boat passes Stromboli
An English Packet Boat passes Stromboli, a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy

A Washington Saw Log used as the home for a man and a bear! Date: circa 1907

Easter Greetings Postcard featuring child and chickens
Easter Greetings Postcard featuring a young child sat atop a chickens hutch with a liberal sprinkling of mutli-coloured Easter Eggs! Date: circa 1910s

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a mouse
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome (or elf) riding a mouse to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a frog
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome riding a frog to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast...!)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Goblin riding a hare
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Goblin riding a hare to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast)

Fantastic Adventures - Minions of the Tiger
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1946, featuring the story Minions of the Tiger by Chester S. Geier. A young beautiful woman stares into the distance like in trance

Fantastic Adventures - The Face beyond the veil
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1950, featuring the story The Face beyond the veil by Franklin Bahl. Two solders are surprised by a huge woman face which appears in a blue fountain. Date: 1950

Fantastic Adventures - Warrior Queen of Mars
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1950, featuring the story Warrior Queen of Mars by Alexander Blade. Two women rise their spears attacking on something

Fantastic Adventures - Goddess of the Fifth Plane
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1942, featuring the story Goddess of the Fifth Plane by William P. McGivern. A young beautiful woman with a wand stands next to a black roaring lion with

Fantastic Adventures - Mystery of the lost race
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1942, featuring the story Mystery of the lost race by E. K. Jarvis. Young woman fires with a futuristic looking weapon at tanks

Fantastic Adventures - Cats of Kadenza
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1944, featuring the story Cats of Kadenza by Don Wilcox. Old man stares terrified in a mysterious glowing hand mirror. Cats scramble over some skulls. Date: 1944

Fantastic Adventures - Jongor of lost Land
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1940, featuring the story Jongor of lost Land by Robert Moore Williams. Warrior sits on the back of a huge dinosaur and tries to shoot a attacking pterosaur

Fantastic Adventures - Queen of the ice men
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1949, featuring the story TITLE by S. M. Tenneshaw. A huge beautiful woman stands in front of a red mountain and looks angrily at two men in snowsuit

Fantastic Adventures - Shadow of the Sphinx
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1946, featuring the story Shadow of the Sphinx by William Lawrence Hamling. A scary looking skeleton lies its hand on the shoulder of a young beautiful woman

Fantastic Adventures - The house that hate build
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1953, featuring the story The house that hate build by Peter Dakin. A huge weird looking face appeared in the distance watching how two men trying to rescue

Fantastic Adventures - Nine worlds west
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1951, featuring the story Nine worlds west by Clee Garson. Green skinned weird looking man watches a young screaming woman falling into a burning abyss. Date: 1951

Fantastic Adventures - When the world tottered
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1950, featuring the story When the world tottered by Lester Del Rey. Young beautiful warrioress rides a white horse through a blizzard. Date: 1950

Fantastic Adventures - Mistress of the Djinn
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1950, featuring the story Mistress of the Djinn by Geoff St. Reynard. The Queen and the Kind from a deck of cards come to life and are in each others arms

Fantastic Adventures - The sword of Ra
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, February 1951, featuring the story The sword of Ra by Geoff St. Reynard. Three men look down at a beautiful young woman who will be mummified by a egyptian priest

Fantastic Adventures - Land of the Shadow Dragons
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1941, featuring the story Land of the Shadow Dragons by Eando Binder. Man in overall defend a pretty woman from a huge dragon after their plane crashed. Date: 1941

Fantastic Adventures - Forgotten Worlds
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1948, featuring the story Forgotten Worlds by Lawrence Chandler. A muscular man surrounded by a bizzare glow holds the globe in his hands. Date: 1948

Fantastic Adventures - The Tale of the red dwarf
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1947, featuring the story The Tale of the red dwarf who writes with his tail by the red dwarf. A big plump looking devil is writing with his own tail in a book

Fantastic Adventures - The Court of Kublai Khan
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1948, featuring the story The Court of Kublai Khan by David V. Reed. Mongolian king fights a man in a suite while a young pretty woman in traditional mongol wear

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