Gent Collection (#8)

Monaco Casino - Nothing Doing / No More - the war has brought a cessation to gambling, leaving this poor player all alone! Date: 1916

Overworked Clerk - Finished for the Day (4pm)
The Overworked (!) Clerk - Finished for the Day (at 4pm!). Date: 1906

The Single Life - Living on his punt
The Single Life - A young gent living alone on his punt Date: 1907

Players Navy Cut Snap Game - The Aristocrat - A smart gent holding a large pack of Players No.3 Virginia cigarettes. Date: 1930

USA - California - Stockton - Man in Knights Templar Uniform Date: circa 1890

Poster advertising ERBOS hat makers of Cherbourg, France. Date: circa 1930

Cartoon, behind the scenes in a theatre -- A member of the audience who likes to go behind the scenes and chat up the actresses. 1880

An older gentleman professing his love to a young ladyfriend
Tennis Illustrated - 40- Love. An older gentleman down on his knees, professing his undying love to a young lady companion; she is yet to cast judgement on his proposal. Date: circa 1904

Two nervous Edwardian Gentlemen - possibly twins
Tennis Illustrated - Doubles ! Two slightly nervous Edwardian Twins fidget and fluster as they await their female companions for a night on the town... Date: circa 1904

Jean de Montluc, Seigneur de Balagny
Jean de Montluc, seigneur de BALAGNY - don t be misled by the seemingly effeminate garb of this gent, for in 1594 he is appointed a marechal de France, no less ! Date: circa 1590

French Post Box
A Parisienne posts a letter in a public letter box, and a gent hurries up hoping he hasn t missed the post, while the postman waits to make his collection. Date: circa 1818

Rosette at Olympia
At the International Horse Show at Olympia, London, the winner of an event is awarded a rosette by a posh-looking gent in topper and tails. Date: June 1910

Restrained Tango Dancers
A monocled gent and his partner perform the tango in a restrained and respectable manner Date: circa 1914

Moliere / Bourgeois Gent
LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME Nicole tells her master she won t laugh at him any more Date: first performed 1670

Codys Kite at Contest
At the First International Kite Competition, on the South Downs near Worthing, sussex : Codys kite enjoys police protection and the attention of a gent in a top hat. Date: 25 June 1903

Thomas Gent, Printer
THOMAS GENT printer and topographer of York Date: 1693 - 1778

Copernicus / Gent Mag
MIKOLAI KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) Polish astronomer Date: 1473 - 1543

Gent Offended by Tea
At a railway station buffet, a gentleman is offended by the suggestion that he might drink tea... Date: 1875

Cover - bound volume of The Idler magazine
The front cover of a bound volume of The Idler magazine, featuring a young gent relaxing in a hammock. Date: 1895

Jolly British gent sitting on beach in front of a restaurant. Date: circa 1920s

Couple on a South Coast beach
A very jolly couple on a South Coast beach (probably Hythe, Kent), enjoying the sun, (the gent is taking typically British precautions against sunburn)

Worthing, West Sussex - Sophisticated Gent talks to a couple about a possible shady deal... Date: 1931

Littlehampton - Young woman and her Father-in-law on beach
Littlehampton, West Sussex - A young woman and her Father-in-law reasting up against a groyne on the beach. The older gent is obviously keen to do a spot of birdwatching

Cat in smart clothes on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1900s

The Motor Burberry advertisement, 1919
The Motor Burberry, universally recognised as the most perfect safeguard for motoring as it embodies in its design every feature that contributes to health, comfort and protection. Date: 1919

Rags the dog decides on his costume for a fancy dress ball -- he will go as a Horsey Gentleman, with checked jacket and cap. Date: 1914

Willss tobacco advert by H. M. Bateman
Advertisement by H. M. Bateman for Willss Cut Golden Bar tobacco featuring a gent seated in a comfortable armchair wearing a smoking jacket in a state of pipe smoking ecstasy. Date: 1929

Suffragette Wifes Got 3 Months. A jovial gent, smiling broadly, cigar in hand announces, Hurrah! The Wifes got 3 months as a suffragette, and I can go home, when I like! Date: circa 1910

Vesta Tilley as Algy, the Piccadilly Johnny
Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations

Rags the dog wearing fancy dress
Rags the dog dressed as a Horsey Gentleman for Humpty and Dumptys fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

What Piccadilly Circus looks like in the early morning
A typical early morning scene in Piccadilly Circus, showing a a smart gentleman in a hansom, heading westward towards Piccadilly, perhaps from a club (the caption suggests the Garrick)

Advert for Kenneth Durward sports suits 1934
The KD sports suit for comfort and distinction.. The house of Durward has long studied the needs of the out-of doors man. KD sports suit is eloquent, not only of style, quality and fine tailoring

Creighton Hale - American silent film actor
Patrick Creighton Hale FitzGerald Senior ( Creighton Hale ) (1882-1965) - American silent film actor. A Pathe Serial Star. Starred in The Exploits of Elaine with Pearl White (1914). Date: circa 1915

Mens Lavatory
A rather dodgy looking gent emerges from a mens lavatory in central London. Date: 1980s

William Shipley
WILLIAM SHIPLEY public-spirited gent who founded the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Date: 1714 - 1803

Joh. And. Ratthward
JOHANN ANDREAS RATTHWARD German gent, but we can t tell you anything more about him. Date: 1625 - 1667

MALE MODEL
A man in a suit, looking like hes just walked out of a bank, walks down the road. Date: late 1960s

Sir Henry Martin
SIR HENRY MARTIN all we know about this gent is that his portrait hangs in the Lodge at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Date: 16th century

Doorway Predikheevenkerk Gent Belgium ca 1858
Artokoloro

Belgium, Ghent, Gravensteen, Counts of Flanders watercastle

Panorama of Grand place in Tournai

Grand place in Tournai

Grand place and belfry listed as World Heritage by UNESCO

Aerial view at Grand place in Tournai

Looking over railings on the Belfry Beffroi tower at the cathedral Tournai Belgium

Grand Place and Belfry of Tournai and the statue of Christine de Lalaing

English poster The J. P. for the Strand Theatre London, UK. Hardy, Dudley (1867-1922), Artist

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