Comic Collection (page 100)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - title page - Valentine, Proteus, Launce and his badly behaved dog, Crab. 1862

Comic skating scene on a Christmas label -- May you surmount all dangers. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a pair of binoculars, with three humanised birds playing snooker in the foreground. Date: circa 1890s

Comic humanised turkey on a Christmas label. Date: circa 1880s

Family of robins at a table on a Christmas card
Family of robins sitting round a table on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four robins with pudding on a Christmas and New Year card
Four robins transporting a pudding on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Requirement for Two Bassinettes - Growing Family
Comic Postcard with a Financial Play on words - " Stocks as Good as Money", using a metaphor of a gowing family

Changes which marriage and children bring - Comic postcard
Comic postcard - " Look before you leap" - A cautionary tale of the changes which marriage and children bring - Alone = one pair of boots. Sallie and I = Two pairs of boots

White shirt on a cutout New Year card, with comic greeting (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Four pigs with festive food on a cutout Christmas card (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Harry Tate - Music Hall Star
Harry Tate - (Ronald Macdonald Hutchinson) (1872-1940) - English comedian who performed both in the music halls and in films. Date: 1905

Greetings card in the shape of a penguin with a blank label hung round its neck. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Radio versus Television, by Rich. circa 1930s

WW2 poster, British Rail catering information, with a cartoon by Fougasse. Food was rationed for British Rail, as for everyone else, and Refreshment Baskets were discontinued. circa 1940s

Greetings card in the shape of medicines
Greetings card in the shape of a bottle of medicine (labelled black draught) and a box of little blue pills. circa 1890s

Hunting scene on a stirrup-shaped greetings card
Comic hunting scene on a stirrup-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Coach with dogs on a cutout Christmas card
Coach with dogs and luggage on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four donkeys on a cutout Christmas card
Four donkeys behind a fence on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Clowns face on a hat-shaped Christmas card
Clown sticking his tongue out and winking on a hat-shaped New Year card. circa 1890s

Owl, ivy and trellis on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Monkey in shirt and tie on a cutout greetings card
Monkey in striped shirt and pink tie on a cutout greetings card. circa 1890s

Sandwich board man on a Victorian Christmas card
Sandwich board man on a cutout Victorian Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with a clown breaking through, and a comic verse. circa 1890s

Five musical owls on a cutout New Year card, three playing banjos, one on tambourine and one with bones. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a woman holding a fan. Date: circa 1890s

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)

Comic heads on fifteen Victorian scraps
Comic heads of men and women on fifteen Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Clown with bottle and sausages on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Clown going to market on a Victorian scrap
Clown going to market with a piglet under his arm on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1870s

Clown, Harlequin and Columbine on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1870s

Clown and Harlequin on a Victorian scrap -- the clown has fallen into a large drum. Date: circa 1870s

Clown and policeman on a Victorian scrap -- the clown appears to have stolen a joint of meat. Date: circa 1870s

Clown with two begging dogs on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1870s

Two clowns with hat on a Victorian scrap
Two clowns trying on a hat on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1870s

Two clowns with a ball on a Victorian scrap
Two clowns playing with a ball on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Two clowns with pie on a Victorian scrap
Two clowns with Monkey Pie on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1870s

Musical monkey on a Victorian scrap
Musical monkey playing the concertina on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs playing with a ball on eight Victorian scraps. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap
Eight pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Pigs and monkeys in a circus on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Pig and monkeys in a park on a postcard
Pig in a bathchair with monkeys in a park on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Contented pig couple on a French postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Pigs in a car on a postcard -- one of them has fallen off the back. Date: circa 1890s

Pig couple kissing on a French postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Pig couple with three children on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Pig proposal on a Valentine postcard. Date: circa 1890s

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