Difficult Gallery

The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by

The difficult problem of how to enjoy games and field sports when you live in a block of flats has triumphantly solved. The sixth in the series of Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson. The illustrations from The Sketch depict ingenious space creating ideas for the spatially challenged home. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

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Girl in white coat and boy in sailor suit

Girl in white coat trimmed with check, and boy in sailor suit trimmed with fox fur, with pet dog. Manteau de ratine blanche, garniture ecossaise jaune et blance, marin blanc et noir, fox blanc et noir. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain from Tommaso Antongini's Journal des Dames et des Modes, Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames, Paris, 1913

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Houdini & Daily MIrror Challenge

Houdini's great lock-picking feat at the London Hippodrome. Harry Houdini shown on stage at the London Hippodrome, having specially made cuffs locked to his wrists in the presence of representatives of some London newspapers. The cuff was allegedly made by a Birmingham blacksmith, Nathaniel Hart, who had spent five years perfecting its locks. On 17 March, In a challenge by the Daily Mirror (then called the Daily Illustrated Mirror), Houdini was manacled into the cuffs and took over an hour to escape in front of a packed theatre. There are various conspiracy theories about how Houdini managed the escape and it is possible he and the Mirror colluded together. Date: 1904

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