DATED 1930
Discoveries at Ur, Iraq: Tattooed Bird Women Sculptures of Mesopotamia - full page (fp) frontispiece.
Archaeological Finds at Ur - double page (dp) showing x7 photos and article by C. Leonard Woolley, Dir. of Joint Expedition of the British Museum, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum to Mesopotamia
Auction Sales at Christies: Chippendale Tripod Table - 17thC Flemish Tapestry Winter Scene After Lucas Van Leyden - Chippendale Knee Hole Table from Lulworth Castle.
Art Collection to be Exhibited at 25 Park Lane the House of Sir Philip Sassoon for The Royal Northern Group Hospitals Benefit - fp showing x6pics.
As Above - dp showing x10pics.
Science: Stag Beetles - fp showing x4pics and an article by W. P. Pycraft.
Fire Aboard a Liner at New York USA: The North German Lloyd Comapny Liner SS Munchen:
Aerial View ShowingMunchen on Fire at New York Docks.
The Liner Sunk in the Harbour After the Fire.
Munchen Sunk by the Stern on to a Tube of the Hudson and Manhattan Railway.
A Cargo of 7000 Canaries Saved from the Fire. Loght.
Fireman Seated at the Burn Out Shell of the Grand Piano in the Once Luxurious Music Room.
Two Men Standing In Front of the Steel Hatch Blown Out by the Explosion Which Caused Two Deaths, One a City Fireman the Other a Crew Member.
Cinema and Scenes from The Love Parade at the Carlton Theatre: Maurice Chevalier - Jeanette MacDonald - Lupino Lane - and others - x3pics
German and Austrian Regalia in The Hofburg at Vienna: Sword of Charlemagne - Imperial Corwn of Holy Roman Empire - Pair of Sceptres - Crown of the Empress Elizabeth - Orb of the Old German Emperors - the House Crown Made for Emperor Rudolf II 1602 - fp showing x6pics.
Willem Mengelberg the Famour Symphony Conductor.
Leo Blech Director of the Berlin Opera. c.keenlyside.
Toscannini - Richard Strauss - Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra reive - Wilhelm Furtwangler of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Rock Drawings in Southern Rhodesia x5 photos including one with Professor Leo Frobenius.
Newstead Abbey Byrons Ancestral Home to be Presented to the Nation.
The Landing T Night Signal Under Construction at Croydon Aerodrome.
An Apparatus on Board the Liner Leviathan for Ship to Shore Mail System.
Tests at Sea on the New Life Saving Device, the Belloni Hood and Diving Suit.
Queen Mary with Princess Mary The Countess of Harewood, and Others in a Box at the Aldwych Theatre.
Statue in Wood by Miss Edna Manley at the 29th Annual Exhibition of Womens International Art Club at Suffolk St. Galleries.
Sermon in Sign Language to a Deaf Congregation at Deptford Church Given by the Rev. W. Draper of St Barnabas Church in Evelyn Street.
A Relief in Ice, Representing the Spirit of the Kappa Sigma House, Displayed at a Winter Carnival in America at the Dartmouth Outing Club, Hanover, New Hampshire USA: Miss Perry Place of New York City and Miss Charlotte Dyett of Rome, NY Standing Next to the Sculpture.
The Treatment Pool at the New Clinic for Rheumatism in Regents Park.
The New Racing Car in which Mr Kaye Don Will Try to Beat the Worlds Land Speed Record: Silver Bullet on View Before Leaving for Daytona.
The Swimming Bath Aboard the Europa the New German Atlantic Liner.
Special Accommodation for Children in the Europa Which Will Make Her Maiden Voyage Across miel the Atlantic.
New Liner Europa Leaving Hamburg for Trials in the North Sea.
Looking Up From an Engine Room in a North German Lloyd Transatlantic Liner - a wonderful fp photograph by Dorien Leigh showing the engine room in a Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) company liner.
Two Faced Head Bronze From the Second of the Pleasure Galleys of Caligula at Lake Nemi - x3pics of a bronze depicting the Head of Janus; the face of the Faun and the Face of the Satyr.
Unique South African Rock Drawings of South Rhodesia - fp in colour showing x2 photos supplied by Professor Leo Frobenius of the German Africa Expedition: Mummy of a Dead King; and An Isolated Figure.
Funeral of a Prehistoric African King Depicted by a Contemporary Artist: Royal Mummy, Sacrificed Zebra, Mystic Figure Bull Skin Shroud, Hill of Burial, Mahogany Tree etc - double centre page (loose) in colour; there are staple marks to centre fold (see scan).
South Africa: The Summer Abroad - fp travel ad. for South African Travel Bureau - cant make out artists signature.
FP titled Personalities of the Week; A War Beacon; Soviet Books showing x9photos:
Mr S. R. K. Glanville of Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum.
Mr A. A. Campbell Swinton the Engineer.
Late Baron Westbury - info. Richard Luttrell Pilkington Bethell.
Baron Westbury - Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell.
Princess Kamiko Taka No Miya, Daughter of Emperor of Japan, at the Age of Four Months - Info. Kazuko, Princess Taka (孝宮和子内親王, Taka-no-miya Kazuko Naishinnō)
Wedding of Prince Takamatsu, Brother of the Emperor of Japan, and Miss Kikiu Tokugawa: The Bride and Groom.
Camille Chautemps Leader of the Radical Socialist Party in the French Chamber. c.keenlyside.
A Beacon in the Ossuary at Douaumont to Commemorate the Battle of Verdun - graves of French soldiers in foreground.
Russian Children Carrying Anti-religion Posters Advertising the Books Approved as Being Against Religion.
DP entitled Lizard Hunting in the Black Republic..... showing x7photos and article by Mr Gilbert C. Klingel published in the American Museum of natural history etc:
Burrow of the Ameiva Chrysolaema: Two Men Sitting Next ot the Incubation Tunnel Near St Marc Haiti.
Eggs Disclosed After the Wall Sealing Propagation Burrow Had Been Cleared, Showing the Nest.
The Rhinoceros Iguana in La Petite Gonaives, Haiti - x4photos.
Authors: Mr Richard Blaker - Miss Margery Sharp - Miss Isabel C. Clarke - Miss Elizabeth Drew - Mr H. M. Tomlinson - x5photos within text.
International Rugby Football; England v. France at Twickenham - fp showing x5photos of the match, plus article.
Antique Drinking Vessels - fp showing x11photos: Chinese Ch'ein Lung Period Wine Ewer - Ancient Assyria, King Ashur Nasir Pal Carving - Greek Bronze Flagon 450bc - Italian Crystal Cup Uffizi Gallery Florence - Flemish Drinking Glasses 1550-1650 - Jacobite Tumbler with Portrait Prince Charles - Roman Wine Jars from Switzerland, Found in the Enge Peninsula nr Berne - Roman Silver Cup 1stC,BC Found At Hildesheim - Silver Cup Discovered at Pompeii - Tutankhamens (Tutankhamun) Wishing Cup - Gold Cup c1500BC Found at Vaphio, Laconia.
Modern Drinking Vessels - sp showing x8photos: Sporting Cocktail Set by Fortnum Masons with Salmon Flies, Polo, Game Birds - Cocktail Set Engraved by Rene Lalique - Decanter and Cup by Georg Jensen Silversmith - Nesting Cups Tea Set Beatl Ware - Bubley Glass at Fortnum Masons - Silver Goblet and Jug by George Jensen - Lalique Cocktail Shaker and Glass at Breves Galleries - Lalique Wine Glass.
Collectors Page; Tobacco Jars, by Frank Davis: A Penny in the Slot Brass Tobacco Box 18thC x2 - Lid from Tobacco Box; Ascribed to Hogarth Portrait of Duke of Cumberland - Toby Jug Type Tobacco Jars - Tobacco Jar of Modelled Vine Leaves and Two Churchwarden Pipes on Panel.
Motoring: Riley Six Cylinder 14hp Stelvio II Saloon Outside the House of George Eliot, Arbury Farm, ChilversCoton, Warwicks -Teignmouth Special Saloon and Tourist Coupe, Standard Cars at Hampton Lucy nr Stratford on Avon - Lanchester Straight Eight Limousine.
Dinghy Racing on the Upper Thames: Dinghies Belonging to the Henley Sailing Club built by Mister Uffa Fox.
Adverts:
Vauxhall Westminster 7 Seater imousine - fp.
Oxo Stock Cube - hp.
Golfing Wear by Moss Bros - ¼p.
Swift Ten Car - ¼p.
Greens Supreme Lawn Mower, and Roller - ¼p.
Benguela Railway, Lobito Bay, Portuguese W. Africa to Rhodesia - ¼p.
Players Navy Cut Cigarettes Players Please - fp.
Haig Whisky - fp.Standard Nine Teignmouth Saloon and Envoy - hp.
White Heather Eau de Cologne from Boots Chemists - ¼p.
Britannia and Eve Magazine - fp back cover.
Courtine Linings by Courtaulds - hp.
The Australia Hotel Sydney - ¼p.
Our Note Book page by G. K. Chesterton.
The World of Kinema by Michael Orme - cinema reviews etc.
Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles.
Prehistoric Art in South Africa: "The Kings Monuments" a Unique Series of Rock Drawings in S. Rhodesia - by Professor Leo Frobenius.
Flame-Finders; Flame Filchers; Flame Makers. Being An Appreciation of "Myths of the Origin of Fire" by Sir James George Frazer.
Our Political Parties: Evolution from Nicknames - by Michael Macdonagh.
Novels - reviews. c.keenlyside.
Music Page: The English Back - by W. J. Turner.
Marine Caravanning by Commander G. C. E. Hampden - boating, yachting etc.
Motoring Page by H. Thornton Rutter.
The Playhouses - reviews of: "A Night Like This" at the Aldwych - "Here Comes the Bride" at The Piccadilly.
Chess by Ernest Irving. 0103
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