Antique Ephemera, Paper, Prints,
Cigarette Cards, Books, and Comics



2 photo illustrated articles from a 1897 publication the first article is entitled - "Sir Clements Markham and The Royal Geographical Society" by William G Fitzgerald

The 11 page article has photo illustrations as follows-

  • Sir Clements Markham President of the RGS
  • Record found in a Cairn in the Arctic regions telling the fate of the Franklin expedition
  • Post office Cairn in the polar regions made of empty meat tins
  • A mountain of pure coal
  • Mr J Scott Keltie
  • An extraordinary Finnish custom - newly married girl paying homage to her mother in law
  • Giant trees of California - exterior of house built on the stump of the original big tree - and interior of house
  • Mr John Coles Curator of the map room
  • The great caravan crossing the Saharah showing how the women are carried
  • Kashmiri wood carriers - load 240lb
  • Native woman at work in Garden - Barotse country
  • How orchids grow on trees in New Guinea
  • Method of carrying a pig through the forest in the Solomon Islands
  • Koodoo or medicine man of tribe in Siberia
  • Dr Hugh R Mill - librarian RGS
  • Figure of Christ made by Indians n Paraguay
  • Bears skulls set up for worship in Yezo island


    The second article is entitled "Duelling in German Universities" by an English Student

    Extremely interesting and well illustrated 6 page article detailing the wounds and duels of the students in German universities - illustrations include-

  • His first duel - or Bandaged Honour
  • Results of a successful duel - scars on head and cheek
  • Chargister or Officers of a Verbindung or students club
  • Junior members of a Verbindung in the Kneipe or beer room with their major
  • Interior of a kneipe room where the students drinking bouts take place
  • A duel with seconds - the duellists facing each other with caps on
  • Second stage of a duel with seconds - caps off and swords crossed
  • A duel in progress at Bonn - trying to get the first cut
  • Patching up the first cut
  • Typical German students

    Please note this listing is for pages extracted from a scarce disbound publication, there are no covers.

    Some articles may include the ending or beginning of other non related articles.


    Whilst the images show the article in its still bound state, the article will be sent as loose pages.

    Some pages may be showing signs of foxing / browning due to the age of the paper

    If you are interested in more than one item I will always combine postage where this is possible so long as purchases are in one transaction. If you are forced by ebay to pay multiple postages for your purchases I will refund the overpayment  
    I have indexed many antique periodicals with detail of, peoples names, places & subjects included. When I find duplicate issues in poor condition I list the articles on ebay. If you are searching for a particular family history related person, subject, place etc, please let me know and I will search my database for any relevant entries

    Thanks for taking the time to have a look at my item for sale.

    Please see my other items currently on ebay in my ebay shop - If you have any questions about any of my items please contact me.

    Why not add me as a favourite seller I regularly list interesting and collectable items.

    Thanks again for looking
    stnd13.2p137