Eventually Collection (#2)

Porgy and Bess Mus Sheet
A fine item of period artwork depicts the opera which, though not successful at first, eventually achieved immense popular acclaim as Americas greatest opera. Date: first performed 1935

Sibyl of Cuma
The Sibyl of Cuma offers the Sibylline Books to Tarquinius Superbus : he considers them overpriced, but eventually buys one for the price of the whole set Date: circa 520 BC

Max Holste MH-250 Super Broussard F-WJDA Paris
Prototype of a 14 to 17 seat short haul airliner built by Nord Aviation and designated the Max Holste MH-250 Super Broussard. Eventually developed into a military transport built by Nord

Avro Lancaster Mk VII NX611 Aeronavale Bankstown
Avro Lancaster Mk VII NX611 in French Naval Air Arm livery at Bankstown in Sydney Australia. Eventually restored and bought in 1983 by the Panton Brothers she is now named Just Jane

Avro Tudor Mk. V G-AKBZ BOAC Stansted
Avro Tudor 5 G-AKBZ was originally built for British South American Airways and named Star Falcon. Used as a fuel freighter during the Berlin Airlift. It was taken on by BOAC in 1949 but never used

Boeing Stratocruiser N1024V Pan Am Singapore
Originally named Clipper America N1024V was refitted as a Super Stratocruiser and renamed Clipper Kathay and used on the Pacific routes

The Sketch front cover: Mrs Ernest Simpson
Front cover of The Sketch magazine in March 1935, featuring a portrait by Dorothy Wilding of Mrs Ernest (Wallis) Simpson. The caption reads: Mrs Simpson is the beautiful wife of Mr

Achilles & Hector
Apollo intervenes between Hector and Achilles and warns Hector that Achilles might slay him. (Which eventually happens)

Roman Praetor
A Roman PRAETOR : originally magistrates, as time goes on the praetors acquire increasing authority and eventually become consuls

Honour Was Satisfied by H M Bateman, or, The Seasons Retrospect. This illustration shows a man hunting, but is such a bad shot that he hits nothing

The Artistic Smoker by H M Bateman - or, Practice Makes Perfect. This illustration shows an artist teaching himself to blow smoke rings. His easel is abandoned in the background

Multnomah Falls, Columbia River, Oregon, USA
The cascading Multnomah Falls in Oregon. - its flow eventually becoming the Columbia River, Date: circa 1895

Telegram mobilising VAD 1914
This telegram, sent to Birchington late in the day on 14 October 1914, was the call to mobilise the local Voluntary Aid Detachments to set up their hospitals

Alfred Dreyfus
ALFRED DREYFUS French soldier, wrongfully accused of espionage and condemned to Devils Island; eventually exonerated after a series of sensational trials. Date: 1859 - 1935

Jean Cavalier
JEAN CAVALIER French Camisard leader of Protestant resistance, successfully defied the government. Eventually governor of Jersey. Date: 1681 - 1740

Floki Vilgerdasson / Expl
Floki Vilgerdasson sends out ravens on his voyage of exploration that eventually led him to Iceland, where he wintered in 865. Date: circa 865

Saint Begge
SAINT BEGGE (Begga) Belgian noblewoman, sister of Gertrude de Nivelles : when her husband died, she became a nun and eventually abbess of Ardennes, near Namur Date: ? - 698

Buckingham (Droeshout)
GEORGE VILLIERS, first duke of BUCKINGHAM statesman, royal favourite, eventually assassinated (and not before time !) Date: 1592 - 1628

Georges Couthon / Duereux
GEORGES COUTHON ruthless French revolutionary, loyal supporter of Robespierre whom he eventually accompanied to the guillotine. Date: 1755 - 1794

Masons and Police
When Paris magistrates led by police commissioner Jean de Lespinay seek to break up a Masonic meeting, the duc d Antin defies them, but the Lodge is eventually closed Date: 10 October 1737

Canada : Defiant French
CANADA : FRENCH RESISTANCE Le chevalier de Levis, Montcalms successor, defies the English and refuses to surrender, but eventually the French agree to British terms Date: summer 1760

The Capitals Lacrosse Club of Canada (which is apparently still in existence today) visiting the Battersby Hat Factory in Stockport in 1906

Boeing Stratocruiser N74606 North West Idlewild
Stratocruiser Washington of North West Airlines was delivered in 1949. Initially used on the Honolulu route it eventually flew the long distance Tokyo route as well. Date: 1954

Beagle Basset CC1 XS772 RAF Transport Command Mildenhall
This Beagle Basset XS772 was flown by 207 and 32 Squadrons Royal Air Force before eventually being re-registered as G-BCJB Date: 1967

Avro Vulcan XA903 Farnborough
First public appearance of the then unnamed stand-off bomb. Eventually called Blue Steel it became the standard British air carried nuclear weapon

Wellingborough Boys Home Picnic
Boys and staff from the Hatton Home, Broad Green, Wellingborough, on an Easter picnic. The homes premises, previously known as Hatton Hall, was donated to the Waifs and Strays Society in 1913

A German 15cm Siege gun
A photograph showing a German gun captured by French soldiers during the Battle of the Somme. Intended to be a decisive breakthrough

India Yamuna River
The source of the Yamuna (Jumna) river in the Himalayas; it will eventually flow into the Ganges, by way of Delhi and Agra. Date: circa 1835

Waldeck-Rousseau Photo
PIERRE MARIE RENE WALDECK- ROUSSEAU French statesman who eventually pardoned Dreyfus, photographed in 1902. Date: 1846 - 1904

Albrecht Wallenstein
ALBRECHT von WALLENSTEIN German military commander, generally but not consistently supportive of the Empire, eventually assassinated. Date: 1583 - 1634

Raphael Semmes - 2
RAPHAEL SEMMES American naval captain, as captain of the Alabama he sank or captured 80+ merchant vessels but she was eventually sunk by the Kearsage, 1864. Date: 1809 - 1877

The Civil war in America. Portaits of notable officers in th
RAPHAEL SEMMES American naval captain, as captain of the Alabama he sank or captured 80+ merchant vessels but she was eventually sunk by the Kearsage, 1864. Date: 1809 - 1877

Edward Pease, Fabian
EDWARD PEASE Political and social thinker, co-founder and secretary of the Fabian Society and eventually its historian. Date: 1857 - 1955

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THE CIVIL WAR IN CHILI, THE BATTLE OF VINA DEL MAR; This general engagement took place on August 23rd, 1891, between devisions of Balmacedas and the Congressional troops

Life of a Burmese Dacoit, And, with his Companions Eventually Caught, Engraving 1890

Samson and the lion, Erasmus Quellinus (II), 1617 - 1678

Mrs Simpson offers to withdraw, 8 December 1936. Article on the front page of the Daily Express about American socialite Wallis Simpson (1896-1986)

Jules Pierre Cesar Janssen (1824-1907) French astronomer at the eyepiece of his reflecting telescope at Meudon observatory France. An accident at a young age left him unable to walk or attend school

Galileo observing the swaying of the chandelier in Pisa Cathedral, c1584. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer, mathematician

Cleopatras Needle: artists impression of obelisk sited outside Houses of Parliament. Eventually erected on Thames Embankment London

This is what it will be with Poland We farmers vote for Germany Poster urging Upper Silesia to vote for Germany in League of Nations 1921 plebiscite. Eventually split between Germany and Poland

What we shall lose 1919 German poster showing result if Upper Silesia became part of Poland after the end of World War I in 1918. Eventually split between Germany and Poland

Great Autumn Manoeuvre: Gladstone thought that eventually the vote must be given to agricultural labourers (Hodge). At this time his premiership was shaky and Disraeli is waiting to take his place

Life of a Burmese Dacoit, And, with his Companions Eventually Caught, Engraving 1890

Fouquier-Tinville - 1
ANTOINE-QUENTIN FOUQUIER- TINVILLE, revolutionary lawyer and statesman, prosecutor who sent thousands to the guillotine and was eventually guillotined himself. Date: 1746 - 1795

Abdcation crisis: sloganed car
Sloganed car in support of King Edward VIII during the Abdication crisis of December 1936. The kings desire to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson split the government

The Marriage Tie
A man is torn between duty to his family and duty to his country during World War One. Eventually, conscription would include married men also

Battle of Ostrolenka
Led by Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki, Polish forces fight valiantly at Ostrolenko, but are eventually defeated by the Russians and forced to retreat to Warsaw. Date: 26 May 1831

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