EditorialDutch-Indian card game in wooden box with logo of the Rotterdam Lloyd, Wooden card box with two packs of cards in it. On the box the logo of the Rotterdam Lloyd. The games have resp. a green or red reverse. They both have a rose in the center. The card...
EditorialBoard Games - Ace, 'Three Indoor Games', 1930s, Box containing set of three indoor board games: Snakes and Ladders, Tank Attack and Ludo. Used circa 1930-1939. World War II changed life for everyone - including children. While fathers were away fightin...
EditorialPortrait of Toni Sailer, Austrian ski-ace and world champion, three times Olympic gold meadal winner, during the 1958 world championships in Bad Gastein, Austria.
EditorialMajor Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock VC DSO MC (24 May 1887 – 26 July 1918) was a British First World War flying ace. Mannock won the Military Cross twice, was one of the rare three-time winners of the Distinguished Service Order, and would be post...
EditorialFlight-commander (Captain) Albert Ball.' Albert Ball VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was an English fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was, with 44 victories, the United Kingdom's leading flying...
EditorialJ. McCudden sitting in a SE5 biplane'. James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM (28 March 1895 – 9 July 1918). A fighter pilot of the First World War, he was recipient of the Victoria Cross. With his six British medals and one French...
Editorial2nd-Lt. A. Ball photographed after obtaining his pilot's certificate'. Ball standing in front of an obsolete Caudron G.3, widely used as a trainer in 1915–16. Albert Ball VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was an English fighter p...
EditorialRittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen'. Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I. He is c...
EditorialMajor J.B. McCudden, V.C.' James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM (28 March 1895 – 9 July 1918). A fighter pilot of the First World War, he was recipient of the Victoria Cross. With his six British medals and one French one, McCudd...
EditorialAncient playing cards including the Queen of Rabbits, the King of Columbines, the Ace of Roses, and the Knave of Pink, 15th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, ...
EditorialFrench school. The Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds. Le Tricheur ? l'As de Carreaux. 17th century. Oil on canvas (1.06 x 1.46 m). Paris, mus?e du Louvre.
EditorialPortrait of Toni Sailer, Austrian ski-ace and world champion, three times Olympic gold meadal winner, during the 1958 world championships in Bad Gastein, Austria.