Weird Collection (page 8)

Young Egyptian woman holding an amphora
An extremely odd artistic photographic postcard showing a young Egyptian woman holding an amphora close to her naked breast

A Christmas Card featuring a Mosque
A quite bizarre Christmas Card featuring a Mosque (the Ayasofya in Istanbul, Turkey)! The creator seemingly failed to attend a How to cut an accurate oval course....!!! Date: circa 1910s

Badlands National Monument - South Dakota - A weird dead area seemingly a propos of nothing at all. Amost a faded negative of Bryce Canyon, pinnacles eroded out of the soft grey soil

Shoshone Mountains - Wyoming - Weird brown, eroded, stratified, formations Date: 1952

A wagon laden with remarkable giant cabbages
Giant Cabbages - freshly picked..... Possibly a bit of creative photography, although you never know....! Date: 1910

Chas. H. Yales fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry mishaps of Nid and the weird, wonderful wanderings of Nod. Date c1898

Orkney Isles - Kirkwall at Midnight
Orkney Islands - Kirkwall - viewed from Cromwells Fort (photographed at Midnight in Midsummer!). The distinctive outline form of St Magnus Cathedral can be seen back left. Date: circa 1920s

Cedar Stump Residence, Oregon, USA Date: circa 1905

Camel and Young Moroccan Boy - Two Friends Date: circa 1910

Italian Kitch Postcard (1 / 3)
Sweet Memories - Italian kitsch postcard of a baby in a basket suspended between the topmost branches of two trees, looking out to sea. Date: 1918

Georgian Porter carrying large furniture
Georgian Porter carrying a large piece of strapped to his (bent) back. furniture Date: circa 1910s

Man turning into a cat
A gentleman visits his Doctor with the distinct impression he is turning into a cat.... by the evidence on show he is correct

Italian Kitch Postcard (3 / 3)
Forever Yours - Italian Kitch Postcard. A couple take a loveboat through the clouds, heading off on lifes journey together.... Date: 1918

View of a ball from below
A quite remarkable and rather wonderful French postcard presenting the view of a ball as could be seen if one were looking upward through a glass floor! Date: circa 1910s

Sicilian Bagpipes Player - A Zampognaro
A Sicilian Zampognaro or pipe-player, holding his massive set of Sicilian bagpipes. Date: circa 1910s

Front cover of The City Curious by Jean de Bosschere
Front cover of The City Curious, a book for children by Jean de Bosschere featuring a particularly curious creature on the cover and two small figures in silhouette. 1920

The Netherlands -Zeeland women in church
The Netherlands - Zuid-Beveland, Zeeland women in church, each wearing traditional Dutch headdresses Date: circa 1910s

Addled Ads - Living in a HORSE
Addled Ads - WANTED: " AT ONCE. Man wanted to look after horse, to live in." 1905

The wonderful American hen with three wings and four legs. The greatest living curiosity in the world, as exhibited at 26 Charing Cross Road, London

Rouen Cathedral, France - Misericord in the Choir stalls. A stange female creature with the wings and tail of a Chimera and a crows feet, holding up a heart in her right hand. Date: circa 1910s

Elephants feet and trunk as furniture items displayed in the Mysore Court, Indian Pavilion, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924 Date: 1924

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910

A Family of Bears in their zoo enclosure
A family of anthropomorphic bears in their zoo enclosure in this rather bizarre fantasy postcard sent from Bern, Switzerland, Father bear smokes his pipe and reads his newspaper

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Fool - donkey
What makes your ears so long ?. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a fool, from a dead goose, via a donkey

Around the world in an iron mask
An extraordinary postcard of a man who for a wager of 21, 000 pounds, walked around the world. Harry Bensley alledged to have pushed his perambulator all around the globe wearing this mask

A surreal abstraction on the form of a horse
A surreal skeletal abstraction on the form of a horse. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Abstract view of an underground cavern
An abstract view of an underground cavern in a surreal style. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

There was an old man with a gong
This photograph is reminiscent of the Edward Lear nonsense poem. An old man with a long beard sits inside a small hut with a gong hanging from the door

Remarkable Life-saving Body Suit
A rather remarkable and very unusual life-saving body suit, comprising of flexible leg and domed upper section, complete with breathing tube and flotation ring

Ectoplasm forming from Helen Duncans mouth
Undated photograph showing " ectoplasm" forming from the Scottish medium Helen Duncans mouth down her front and over shoulder. HPG/1/4/2 (vi)

Pretended rabbit breeder Mary Tofts
Undated photograph of engraving of pretend rabbit-breeder Mary Tofts. HPG/1/13/2 (xviii)

Undated photograph showing ectoplasm forming
Undated photograph showing " ectoplasm" forming from the Scottish medium Helen Duncans mouth down her front and over shoulder. HPG/1/4/2 (v)

Businessman relaxes in his office
A Businessman (possibly a Company Director) sits back in a modern round wicker chair with hands behind his head and wearing a Warriors helmet

Turkey, Chanak - British Fleet Sports Final. A rather funny game is in progress between the 8th Flotilla and HMS Emperor of India

A Display of Vases
Vases by Clarey of Asnieres, in a variety of shapes and sizes, weird and wonderful, the sort of thing you find in dusty antique shops or the marche aux puces

Polo match by electric light
A polo match played by electric light at the Ranelagh Club. The game did not begin until ten o clock in the evening. The ILN writes that, .the light, when thrown upon the players

Scandinavian Arachnids
The people of 16th century Scandinavia are only slightly bothered by spiders in their webs and enormous flying insects; also some weird worms with heads

Lon Miss Soc Museum 2
Some acquisitive missionary brought back this stuffed giraffe from his travels - just one of the weird items in the Museums collection

Lon Miss Soc Museum
This museum is full of weird and wonderful objects acquired by missionaries in various far-flung corners of the world. Whatever happened to them, I wonder ?

Ancient Greek Games
A selection of weird and wonderful games played by the ancient Greeks

Dragon (De Bry)
Flying dragons were among the weird creatures reported from the New World by Vespucci and other explorers

Wells / in the Abyss
IN THE ABYSS Divers encounter weird creatures in the lower depths of the ocean

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