Fleas Gallery

Advertisement for Professor Likonti's Wonderful Roumanian Flea Circus (engraving)

603255 Advertisement for Professor Likonti's Wonderful Roumanian Flea Circus (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Advertisement for Professor Likonti's Wonderful Roumanian Flea Circus, at the Royal Aquarium, London, with an illustration depicting the fleas performing a variety of acts, including fencing and tightrope walking.); Look and Learn / Peter Jackson Collection; English, out of copyright

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Stray Notes from South Africa (engraving)

1061948 Stray Notes from South Africa (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Stray Notes from South Africa. Illustration for The Graphic, 10 April 1886.); Look and Learn / Illustrated Papers Collection; English, out of copyright

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1st Argyll, Capetown, Competition, Etshowe, Fleas, Home, Impi Of Friendly Natives, Malay Wedding, Marksmanship, Military, Mounted Infantry, Parade, Service, South Africa, Stray Notes, Sutherland Highlanders, Sweet Home, Tormented, Traditional Dress, Tribal, Zulu Reserve, Zulu Reserve Territory

Humorous Card - Fleas & the Bedpan

Silly (yet rather funny) carton postcard, bearing the following caption:
SOCIETY GOSSIP
- this week the Duchess of Billingsgate in hunting. The Duke is going to his usual watering place...!
A portly lady clears the marital bed of bedbugs and fleas, whilst her thin husband reaches for the bedpan!
circa 1910s

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