Images Dated 3rd August 2015 (#29)

Francisco Guerrero(1528 -1599), Spanish composer

Children of the Chinese city of Hankou, Wuhan, are evacuated by boat as the city comes under attack by Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War Date: 1938

Lovely illustration of a woman with reddish brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a transparent black outfit. Date: 1947

Nursery plate hand-painted - design by Daisy Makeig-Jones
Wedgewood Etruria, England. Nursery plate hand-painted with design by Daisy Makeig-Jones. Shows flying rowing boat, soldiers and figure lying prone on ground and an animal

WWI biplane bullet fuselage with copper propeller
First World War biplane bullet fuselage with copper propeller.. Trench Art

WWI Trench Art triplane
First World War Trench Art tri-plane. The fuselage is made from a copper bullet. Trench Art

Le Jeu de Quiller Allied soldiers playing skittles
No. 8/15. Le Jeu de Quiller. Allied soldiers playing skittles - the skittles are made as models of the Heads of the Central Powers. Leon

Bairnsfather Ware - Bruce Bairnsfather
Bairnsfather Ware wall plaque with ornate border. Well if you knows. A Memento of the Great War on reverse. Bairnsfather Ware

French 75 mm shell case with floral design
French 75 mm. shell case, fluted, embossed and decorated with floral design. Trench Art

A very fine 1914 BEF Tommy in full marching order
A very fine 1914 B.E.F. Tommy in full marching order. English School

A Corporal of the 1st / 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
A Corporal of the 1st/9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion Highland Light Infantry in full marching kit.Hommage du Capitaine Andre. Tres sympathique souvenir. (Very warm memories of Captain Andre)

A patriotic cast iron frying pan with German soldier
A patriotic cast iron frying pan with a German soldier shaking the hand of a German woman in relief on the handle. Embossed around the diameter with Der Deutschen frau opfersinn

YPRES Coat of Arms
YPRES. Coat of Arms. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Ornaments - German Internees - Knockaloe Internment Camp
A pair of carved bone ornaments with raised foliate decoration with inscriptions - one saying Zur Freud (In Joy) and one saying Im Leid (In Sadness)

A composite matchbox-ashtray made from a bullet cartridge and mounted on an 18 pounder shell case. Engraved Messines, June 7th 1917 - France and Belgium with an image in copper of a British tank

Plate - Give it a good ard un, Bert
Plate inscribed Give it a good ard un, Bert: You can generally ear em fizzing a bit first if they are agoin to explode. Inscribed on reverse Made by the girls of Staffordshire during the winter of

Senior Ranked British Army personages of WWI
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Ivory paper knife with a silver handle - WWI
Ivory paper knife with a silver handle depicting a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II in relief, together with the Imperial Crown and Coat of Arms and Iron Crosses. Commemorative Ware

Mothers and children at a Cecil House, London
Mothers and children at one of the womens lodging houses known as Cecil Houses. The hostels, for homeless and vagrant women

Ashtray made from a German 45mm pom-pom shell
Most unusual ashtray made from a German 45 mm. pom-pom shell surmounted with three rifle rounds, engraved with the emblem of the town of Ypres. Trench Art

Rifle round ornament Souvenir from Vimy Ridge
Ornament made from rifle rounds engraved Souvenir from Vimy Ridge, France, embellished with an Edward VII copper halfpenny. Trench Art

Paraffin lamp mounted on a 4 5 Howitzer shell case
Paraffin lamp mounted on a 4.5 Howitzer shell case. Trench Art

Souvenir of Ypres, Menin Gate Memorial, WW1
Souvenir of Ypres, the Menin Gate Memorial on a wooden base. Commemorative Ware

R H Smith, Vereeniging Scout Troop, South Africa
R H Smith, Scoutmaster, Vereeniging Scout Troop, South Africa

R Okell, Berea Scout Troop, Durban, South Africa
R Okell, Scoutmaster, Berea Scout Troop, Durban, South Africa

Waifs and Strays Children Emigrating to Canada
A party of boys from Church of England Waifs and Strays homes on-board ship en route to Canada. The emigration of orphans

St Johns Childrens Home, Ipswich
Boys pose in the garden of the St Johns Childrens Home on Bloomfield Street in Ipswich. The home was opened in 1879 by the Ipswich Poor Law Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

County Home, Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA
A view of the County Home at Mercer, Pennsylvania - a publicly funded home for the elderly poor. Date: Date unknown

Margate Royal Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Date: 1908

Yorkshire Deaf and Dumb Institution, Doncaster
A view of the Yorkshire Institution for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Children, founded at Doncaster in 1829. Date: Date unknown

Posting a Xmas letter
Young boy and dog posting Christmas letters and cards. Date: 1900

Poster design, Peugeot Valentigney, depicting a lion with a bicycle

Bakers Delivery Van 1, Malmesbury, Wilts (No livery)
Fred and Elsie Boulton; son and daughter of Richard Boulton stood by the bakery delivery van. Fred drove the delivery van and Elsie worked in the bakery

Ishikawa Canal near Yokohama

Castle Moat, Tokyo, Japan

Nagasaki, Japan

The roof garden of the Eden Hotel, Berlin Date: 1920s

British coin, George VI halfpenny
British coin, a George VI halfpenny for 1952, with a ship on the reverse. Date: 1952

Guy Fawkes - T-shirt / poster print design MR NICE GUY Date: 1605

W Burns Esq of Edinburgh by H. L. Oakley
Silhouette portrait of a portly, bearded man, W Burns of Edinburgh, wearing a trilby or homburg hat and carrying a walking cane. Date: circa 1920

Kandian woman, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

SPAIN. Ronda. Moorish baths (13th-14th centuries). Main hall

PISANO, Andrea da Pontedera, called Andrea (1270-1349). Saturn. 1337-1341. Moulding which decorated Giottos Campanile. Renaissance art. Trecento. Florentine school. Relief on rock. ITALY. Florence

Shotgun with outside spring. Antonio Larranaga en Eibar (19th c.). SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeria (armoury)

Photographic print wallet, advertising Kodak Film, and the developers, Heppells Ltd. The art deco design shows a young woman with bobbed hair, taking a photo with a box camera. Date: 20th century

VOLTAIRE, Francois-Marie Arouet, also known as (1694-1778). Engraving

H. L. Oakley cutting the silhouette of a fellow officer
Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley, the famous silhouette artist, pictured cutting the silhouette of a fellow officer in what looks like a dug-out during World War One. Date: 1920s

Childrens Home Tailoring Shop
A tailoring class at a boys home. A sign on the wall extols the boys to gather up the fragments of cloth that remain so that nothing be lost. Date: Circa 1908

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