Pearl Collection (#67)

Arab Carpentry Shop, Cairo, Egypt, making screens, furniture, bookstands and Mother-of-pearl inlay

Egyptian Beauty amoking
An alluring Egyptian beauty turns her gaze outwards from behind her sheer veil, as she smoking a cigarette

The Lake at the Earls Court Exhibition, 1898
Photograph showing the lake and assorted buildings at the Earls Court Exhibition of 1898. The lake was surrounded by thousands of pearl and amber-coloured lights

Dinners singing Auld Lang Syne at the Savoy Restaurant, 19
Illustration showing some of the thousand guests who had supper at the Savoy Hotel on New Years Eve, 1907, and sang Auld Lang Syne to see in the New Year

Great Eggspectations
A fashionably dressed lady pauses to admire a pearl necklace in a shop window, and hopes that her handsome, parcel carrying partner will take the hint

Pearl Fishing
Pearl fishing at Tuticorin (known at that time as Toute Coryn) in southern India

Two fashionable coats, 1899
Illustration of a three quarter length coat of black cloth lined with white satin (on left). The coat was decorated with large white pearl buttons

Fashions for April, 1872
A selection of ladies fashions from the Paris designers, April 1872. From left to right: Toilette de Diner, trimmed with a deep flounce

Paris fashions for February, 1864
Sketches of designs featured on the monthly ladies fashion page. (From left) The walking dress, made from dark brown silk, trimmed with black velvet

Humbug Pillar Box Hat
A young woman wearing a black & white humbug striped pillar box hat with a large black ribbon hat band & pearl button earrings

Pearl Trimmed Headdress
Platinum, fifties blonde wearing a pearl trimmed headdress with a veil & triple pearl drop earrings. Her theatrical style eye make-up lends an exotic appearance

Pearl Lenore Curran
American housewife of St Louis, who under the name Patience Worth authored several writings of remarkable literary force, purporting to be dictated by a spirit Date: 1883 - 1937

Regency Beauty
A Regency beauty wearing a white robe over a blue slip, low cut corsage with lace tucker & medici collar, cameo belt buckle, pearls, long gloves & Kashmir shawl

Various Skippers
Pearl Skipper Five-Spotted Burnet Moth Large Skipper Green Forester Six-Spotted Burnet Moth

Pearl Trimmed Dress 1910
Empire revival gown in white silk voile with a high waist, square corsage, cap sleeves & a narrow trained skirt is profusely ornamented with pearls & beads

Girl about Town
A young woman wearing a red jacket and a pearl necklace, a carefree girl about town doing a spot of sightseeing near the Tower of London

THE SORRY TALE novel communicated by Patience Worth through American psychic Mrs John H Curran (Pearl Curran)

Female Type / 4 Admirers
A fashionable woman, with her four admirers, all of whom wear top hats and monocles

Futuristic pearl fishing. Two divers have just got out of their submarine, and have found a large oyster shell containing pearls on the seabed

Ringlers Annex Bar in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon, United States of America, North America

Mother of Pearl carving. French Polynesia
Lawson Wood / SplashdownDirect

Pearl Monument on the Corniche of Doha Bay with the central business district of the West Bay on the horizon, Doha, Qatar, Middle East

Pearl Momument on the Corniche of Doha Bay with the central business district of the West Bay on the horizon, Doha, Qatar, Middle East

Person in mask and costume, Venice Carnival, Venice, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Hinano Black Pearl farm, Fakarawa, Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, Pacific Islands, Pacific

Black pearls, Cook Islands, South Pacific, Pacific

Close-up of hand displaying pearls with weighing scales, in the pearl souk, Manama, Bahrain, Middle East

MARY II / PLAYERS / 35 / 50
QUEEN MARY II OF ENGLAND Reigned 1688 - 1694

Mary Evelyn / Nanteuil
MARY EVELYN nee BROWNE Wife of JOHN EVELYN, diarist, and daughter of Sir Richard Browne, ambassador

Countess Cadogan / Piccadi
Countess Cadogan in 1889

Marchioness of Granby
MARION MARGARET VIOLET LINDSAY Marchioness of Granby in 1889 (she married the Marquis in 1882)

Montespan / Mme / Miniature
FRANCOISE-ATHENAISE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART alias MME DE MONTESPAN Mistress of Louis XIV and mother of six children by him

Madame De Lefebvre / Minia
MADAME DE LEFEBVRE Duchess of Danzig, French social leader

Victoria Eugenia / Osterma
VICTORIA EUGENIA, Queen of Spain, Princess of Battenburg, wife of ALFONSO XIII

Amelie / Queen Portugal
AMELIE, QUEEN OF PORTUGAL Wife of CARLOS I, daughter of the Comte de Paris

Elinor Glyn / Cig Card
ELINOR GLYN nee SUTHERLAND British novelist born in Jersey, CI

Margherita of Savoy / Roya
MARGHERITA OF SAVOY Queen of Umberto I of Italy, in 1901

Cambridge / Lady May
LADY MAY CAMBRIDGE later Lady Henry Abel Smith Daughter of the Earl and Countess of Athlone (Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice)

Duff / Maud / Postcard
MAUD DUFF Younger daughter of Princess Louise Victoria and Alexander, Duke of Fife - she later married Lord Carnegie

Nader Shah / Iran / Heath 15
NADER SHAH also known as TAHMASP QOLI KHAN originally NADER QOLI BEG Shah of Iran (1736-47)

Margaret / Sweden / 190?
PRINCESS MARGARET of CONNAUGHT Wife of Gustav VI, King of Sweden (reigned 1950-73)

Elisabeth / Belgian Queen
ELISABETH OF BAVARIA Wife of Albert I, King of Belgium

Elisabeth Luise / Prussian
ELISABETH LUISE Queen of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia

Hester L Stanhope / Spiess
LADY HESTER LUCY STANHOPE Traveller to Asia, where she settled and adopted eastern manners

Pearl Harbour / Domenica
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR 360 Japanese war planes make a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet, declaring war on the US and Britain

Pearl Fishing / 1870
Fishing for pearls in the Persian Gulf. Native divers hold their breath and drop down to the sea bed on lines

Diving for Pearls
Diving for pearls from a simple sail boat

Pearl Fishing / Australia
Fishing for pearls in the Torres Straits, Australia

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