Words Collection (page 5)

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Booked
This is a typical Dinah play on words. Dinahs children always have shiny shoes. The boy has a satchel while the girl has a handbag. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944

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

Comic Seaside Postcard - I Can t See My Little Johnny
I Can t See My Little Johnny - Humorous saucy seaside postcard design by Donald McGill (1875-1962). Date: circa 1949

Christmas Truce Memorial, Peace Village, Messines
The memorial carries the words A Lull in the Hate and refers to the football match played between the Germans and the British at Christmas 1914

Music cover, The Birth of the Blues, words by B G De Sylva and Lew Brown, music by Ray Henderson. 1926

Music cover, You Came Along (From Out of Nowhere), words by Edward Heyman, music by John W Green, performed in the film You Came Along, with Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott and Don Defore. 1931

Music cover, Merci, Cheri, Merci, Bud Flanagan
Music cover, Merci, Cheri, Merci (Trois Fois Merci), sung by Bud Flanagan (Crazy Gang in Ring Out the Bells), music by Michel Emer, English lyrics by Geoffrey Parsons, French lyrics by Pierre Dorsey

Music cover, A-Tisket A-Tasket, Ella Fitzgerald
Music cover, A-Tisket A-Tasket, words and music by Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman. 1938

Music cover, So It Was, words by George Horncastle, music by John Cooke Junior, sung by G H MacDermott. 19th century

Music cover, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, song waltz, words by George Leybourne, music by Alfred Lee, performed by Shaw and Weston. 1934

Music cover, A Very Different Place, words by W Pink, music by F Aylmer, sung by G H MacDermott. 19th century

Music cover, A Thing He Had Never Done Before, written and composed by C W Murphy, sung by George Robey. 1911

Music cover, Citee comme Temoin (called as a witness), words by Marie Vernet, music by Jules Carlez, comic courtroom scene with judges and witness. 19th century

Play on words
Three sheets in the wind. Postcard illustration of woman in a red dress pegging clothes on a line on a windy day. CW Faulkner postcard series 154. Date: 1902

Music cover, Thats Where the South Begins, foxtrot song, words by Jack Yellen, music by Ted Shapiro, sung with enormous success by Randolph Sutton (pictured). Date: 1930

Music cover, Egypt, My Cleopatra, by Clare Kummer
Music cover, Egypt, My Cleopatra, words and music by Clare Kummer. Date: 1900s

Music cover, Koh-I-Noor, by Leonard Gautier
Music cover, Koh-I-Noor, Grande Marche Militaire by Leonard Gautier. Date: 1900s

Music cover, I se A-Waitin For Yer, Josie, words by Frederick W Leigh, music by Henry E Pether, sung by G H Elliott. Date: 1900s

Music cover, I Wouldn t Leave my Little Wooden Hut For You! Words and music by Tom Mellor and Charles Collins. Date: 1900s

Music cover, In The Valley Where the Bluebirds Sing, words by Monroe H Rosenfeld, music by Alfred Solman. Date: 1900s

Music cover, In Barcelona, words by Eustace Baynes, music by James William Tate, sung with great success by Miss Millie Lindon. Date: 1900s

Music cover, Its a Different Girl Again! Words by George Arthurs, music by Bennett Scott, sung by Whit Cunliffe. Date: 1900s

Music cover, Back, Back, Back to Baltimore, words by Harry Williams, music by Egbert Van Alstyne. Date: 1900s

Music cover, Au Revoir, my little Hyacinth, words by A E Sidney Davis, music by Hermann E Darewski Junior, sung by Miss Ellaline Terriss. Date: circa 1900s

Music cover, Blue Bell, march song, words by Edward Madden, music by Theodore F Morse. Date: 1900s

Music cover, Within Your Heart, by H Trotere
Music cover, Within Your Heart, words by G Hubi Newcombe, music by H Trotere. Date: 1901

Music cover, By the Side of the Zuyder Zee, words by A J Mills, music by Bennett Scott, sung by Miss Annie Purcell. Date: circa 1900s

Music cover, Comin in on a Wing and a Prayer, WW2
Music cover, Comin in on a Wing and a Prayer, RAF Battle of Britain song with words by Harold Adamson, music by Jimmy McHugh and revised words by Frederick Day. 1943

Box lid, Le Petit Compositeur, game
Box lid, Le Petit Compositeur (The Little Compositor) game

Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald in San Francisco
Music cover, Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald in San Francisco, words by Gus Kahn, music by Kaper and Jurman. 1936

America - English Boy Burning To Avenge The Defeats
English Boy Burning To Avenge The Defeats OF The Late War, Is Encouraged To Study Grammar Date: 1785

Soldiers on Parade at the Cabildo Plaza at Cuzco
Peruvian soldiers stand in formation, heads bowed, before them the words Viva el Perou spelled out in flowers. A huge crowd watches from the stands outside the plaza. Date: 1872

Two musical cats on a German greetings postcard -- Songs without Words (a pun on a work by Mendelssohn). Date: circa 1890s

Music cover, Violets, a Cavatina, with words by Kate Wilkinson and music by Stephen Glover. 19th century

Landing place, Newbury, Massachusetts, USA
Commemorative stone, Landing place of the first settlers, 1635, at Parker River, Newbury, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1910

Line of the Minute Men at Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Commemorative stone, Line of the Minute Men at Concord, Massachusetts, USA -- 19 April 1775. Date: circa 1904

Fourth Soviet Flag - Hammer Sickle Red Army Star
Sheet music cover illustration: Cossack Song arranged by Granville Bantock, words by Helen Bantock, music by Ivan I. Dzerzhinski?, 1909-1978. W. Paxton & Co. 1944. Date: 1944

Forcing Italy to surrender - WW2 Propaganda
To Unconditional surrender. When success goes to the head - defeat goes to " de-feet" !. Allegory on Allied advances toward defeating Mussolini in Italy. Date: 1943

Cartoon, Elements of Mischief in Hypocritical Repose - three children and a dog. In other words, the peace and quiet won t last long. Date: 1875

I WILL MAKE KNOWN MINE WORDS UNTO YOU and other texts

Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Dog Watch
circa 1906

Musical terms up to date - Fortissimo - very loud
1903

A Lady excited by the ring of Loves Telephone
circa 1910s

The Cambridge Eight competing in a shell race
circa 1910s

Dogs tail painfully run over by a car
Sorry, I have a tail - Oh Mother! What a catastrophy! 1936

Comic Postcard - A Windy problem
Comic Postcard - " I m afraid you ll be troubed with wind outside, Lady!" " Well, you be thankful you re not troubled with it inside, thats all!" circa 1930s

Suffragette Votes for Women Ceramic Cat
A brown pottery cat, the pattern of its fur resembling that of a tabby. It is wearing a ribbon tied with a bow around its neck and has painted eyes and open mouth

Singing Auld Lang Syne
The song of many happy people and sentimental drunks upon New Years Eve, Auld Lang Syne, a traditional air with words by Robert Burns. Date: 1845

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