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Convair CV990A HB-ICE Air Afrique Swissair, Abidjan
A Swissair Convair CV990A Coronado leased to Air Afrique and based in Abidjan in Ivory Coast. Date: 1971

ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR
Not an English myth at all but based on a Welsh story eagerly taken up by the Normans after the conquest as a means of culturally subjugating the English. Dont be fooled!

GREEK FLAG SCARF
A young, blonde patriotic Greek girl wears a brimless fur hat with a flag cap badge & a fur-trimmed scarf whose design is based on the flag of Greece. Date: circa 1917

Italian Flag-Scarf
A young, brunette patriotic Italian girl in a feather adorned hat & a scarf whose decorative design is based on the Italian flag. Date: circa 1917

Royal Italian Opera - Foscari
The first English production of this opera set in Venice, staged at the Royal Italian Opera House, London : it is based on a play by Byron. Date: first performed 1844

Reyer - Salammbo
Reyers opera is based on the popular epic novel by Flaubert Date: first performed 1890

MASSENET / CENDRILLON
(Cinderella) Guiraudon in the title role and Mademoiselle Emelen as the Prince in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

MASSENET / CENDRILLON 2
(Cinderella) Guiraudon in the title role in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

MASSENET / CENDRILLON 1
(Cinderella) Brejean-Graviere as the Fairy in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

JOAN OF NAVARRE Consort of Henry IV (as her 2nd husband); Engraving based on her tomb at Canterbury Date: 1370 - 1437

FOOD AND DRINK / BANQUETS
Lorenzo and Isabella; an Italian Banquet (The painting is based on Keats poem) Date: Medieval

The Corsican Brothers by Dion Boucicault
Dion Boucicaults The Corsican Brothers, based on the novel by Dumas: Act II - The Masked Ball scene Date: 1880

Burrell Steam Tractor VLD346 Furious, (msn 3191), built in 1907, at the 1959 Andover Steam Rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)

Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive Prince of Wales HR6658 (msn 3887), at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam Rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)

Burrell General purpose Tarction engine TA369 Red Gauntlet
Burrell General purpose Traction engine TA369 Red Gauntlet (msn 3998), at the 1959 Andover Steam Rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)

Burrell Road Tractor CYB558 at Walford Cross, near Taunton, with the 1926 Babcock and Wilcox 6 ton Steam Roller - Toby. Works No. 95/4009 - Reg. No. YB 7976

Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive HO5993 May Queen (msn 3447), built 1913, at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines)

Burrell Showmans Road Locomotive PB9624 King George VI (msn 3489), built 1913, at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam rally. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines)

Marshall single cylinder steam traction engine OD177 (msn 86265), at Upton Pyne. (Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848)

Marshall steam traction engine TA2758 (msn 23368), built in 1894, at Upton Pyne. (Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848)

Royal Air Force Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110C-5 AX772 (Luftwaffe 5F-CM of $(F)/14) (W.Nr. 2177) Buit by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG 5F-CM was based at Cherbourg

Royal Air Force Austers WJ316, at the 1951 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. First flown in August 1950 and written off on 29 September 1955

Douglas DC-3A N34952 (msn 6345) of Braniff International Airways. After being impressed into the United States Air Force during the war N34952 was restored to the civil register

Miles M. 38 Messenger 2A G-AJVC
Miles M.38 Messenger 2A G-AJVC (msn 6371). After several UK based operators, G-AJVC was taken on by Tyrolean Travel Ltd. flying mostly in Germany

Royal Air Force - Hunting Jet Provost T. 4 XP680
Royal Air Force Hunting Jet Provost T.4 XP680 (msn PAC/W/18304) of The Macaws aerobatic team from the College of Air Warfare, based at Royal Air Force Manby

Beechcraft 65-B80 Queen Air G-AWOI (msn LD-393) of Rootes Group at Cranfield, based at Baginton. Date: circa 1968

Beagle B. 206 series 1 G-ASWJ
Beagle B.206 series 1 G-ASWJ of Rolls-Royce Ltd. based at Hucknall. Shown at the Rolls-Royce stand during the 1965 Biggin Hill air Fair. Date: 1965

F-111E at Fairford
General Dynamics F-111E 68-0064 (UH) from the 20th FW/88th FS United States Air Force based at Upper Heyford at the 1993 Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 21 to 27 July 1993

Holding Hands And Praying Over The Bible

A jolly young British military cadet - Gibraltar - according to the note on the reverse of the card his name was Jock Reid. Date: 1947

Table of concordance of the four gospels, biblical references are framed between columns crowned with horseshoes, capitals and bases decorated with human and animal heads

Kimera EVO37 (restomod based on Lancia 037, 1980s Group B rally car) 2021 Silver
KIM001260

British troops - United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)
One of 15 colour photographs of groups of British troops on service with United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) Bosnia, and based in Vitez, Bosnia, 1994 (c). Date: circa 1994

Scottish Womens Hospitals Elsie Inglis
Shows the second unit from the Scottish Womens Hospitals for Foreign Service, prior to their departure from Cardiff in April 1915

Clothes perhaps of the Viking Age. Reconstruction. Finland
Clothes perhaps of the Viking Age. Reconstruction of a female costume based on the findings in the tombs of the Eura cemetery, Finland. 12th century. National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Avro Vulcan XL392 Le Bourget
83 Squadron was the first to receive Mk2 Vulcans. From 1962 to 1964 XL392 was based at RAF Scampton and carried the Yellow Sun nuclear weapon until replaced by Blue Steel. Date: 1963

WW2 Poster -- Typhus, How Is It Spread?
Information poster on typhus and how it is spread. Colour lithograph, British Army anti-typhus medical information poster, after 2nd Lieutenant Stacey Hopper

Studio Misr, founded in 1935 by Egyptian economist Talaat Harb. In its heyday it was the only film studio in the world producing Arabic movies, Based in Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1930s

Hot Rod Street Machine based on 1950s

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