Humor, page 2


I have dotted some mechanically produced views thru these pages. They were (and are) cheap and cheerful. 'Aren't I like Miss Smith?' (That's the title not a comment).
Condition 7/8.
Order #4551.
Price $4.
 


Universal. Looks like whites 'blacked up'. No title.
Condition. Was originally much like this. Faces sharp.
Order #4552.
Price $12.
 


Underwood 'Do they think of me at home?'.
Condition. Slight damage to mount at top. Blob of candle grease and slight crease top to bottom of right image - not visible when viewing.
Order #4553.
Price $8.
 


Many of these are by Bert and Elmer. I will only mention publishers when (and if) they get exciting.

'Before Marriage - A dude'.
Condition 8.
Order #4554.
Price $8.
 


'Of course I'm good. Father calls me a holy terror'.
Condition 7.
Order #4555.
Price $8.
 


'Try our sausages, made while you wait, you can see what you're getting'.
Condition 6 (slightly blurred and a small stain pn r/h image).
Order #4556.
Price $5.
 


'Sew on your own buttons, I'm going for a ride'. Women's emancipation view.
Condition 5 (fading and slight damage to r/h image making it look as if she is holding a whip and that this is an erotic view).
Order #4557.
Price $4.
 
 


'Did you ring for hot water Sir?'. Very ugly man, gorgeous maid!
Condition 5/6.
Order #4558.
Price $5.
 


Excelsior 'Before Marriage'.
Condition 8.
Order #4559.
Price $10.
 


Excelsior 'After Marriage'.
Condition 8.
Order #4560.
Price $10.
 


No title.
Condition 7.
Order #4561.
Price $8.
 


American and International 'Oats Wanted. Enquire Within'.
Condition 7.
Order #4562.
Price $6.
 


Excelsior 'Driven to drink by a woman'.
Condition around 6 considering usual Excelsior lightness.
Order #4563.
Price $6.
 


Excelsior 'Who are you?'.
Condition 5/6 (lightness).
Order #4564.
Price $4.
 


1850s untitled 'eternal triangle' view.
Condition. Nicely clear. A few stains on mount.
Order #4565.
Price $15.
 

White label, black fancy border 'A young woman wants to see you, Sir'. 'Sir' has been a naughty boy as young woman has baby in arms.
Condition. Nicely clear with good stereo effect. Much better than scan.
Order #4566.
Price $12.
 


Untitled but I think it's called 'Ten to two'. By Excelsior (Wright of Burnley, England).
Condition 5 (fading).
Order #4567.
Price $4.
 


'Trials of a bachelor's life'. Real photo not mechanical view.
Condition 8.
Order #4568.
Price $10.
 


'Diving' Mechanically produced view.
Condition 8.
Order #4569.
Price $3.
 


'Diving' Mechanically produced view.
Condition 8.
Order #4570.
Price $3.
 


'Diving' Mechanically produced view.
Condition 7.
Order #4571.
Price $3.
 


'Two hearts that beat as one'.
Condition 6 (long surface scratch on right image, not visible when viewing).
Order #4572.
Price $5.
 


Underwood 'A Fishing Smack'.
Condition 8 but there is a thin vertical white line down both images - obviously part of processing.
Order #4573.
Price $8.
 


Underwood 'Comin' Thro' the Rye'.
Condition 8 (very slight crease at top of right image).
Order #4574.
Price $8.
 


Excelsior 'Coming through the rye'.
Condition 7.
Order #4575.
Price $6.
 
 
 
 


'Bliss disturbed'. Everybody is hyterical and it is only 1.15 a.m.
Condition 7.
Order #4576.
Price $6.
 


'Romance'.
Condition 8.
Order #4577.
Price $6.
 


'Shoulder Arms!'.
Condition 8.
Order #4578.
Price $8.
 


'Charge Bayonets!'.
Condition 7.
Order #4579.
Price $6.
 


Great Western View Co. 'Bliss'.
Condition 7.
Order #4580.
Price $6.
 


Griffith & Griffith. 'When shall we three meet again?'. Yes, I know there are only two bloody donkeys!
Condition 8.
Order #4581.
Price $8.
 


'A frantic embrace'.
Condition 8.
Order #4582.
Price $4.
 


'Partiality'. Man must be blind as rejected girl is heaps prettier than the fat lump on the sofa.
Condition 7.
Order #4583.
Price $6.
 


'Now, Don't'.
Condition. Mount is split thru center, slightly affecting edges of images.
Order #4584.
Price $2.
 


'She likes it'.
Condition. Mount is lightly split across the back, not affecting the images.
Order #4585.
Price $3.
 


Griffith & Griffith. 'Oscular training, or what's in a kiss'.
Condition 7.
Order #4586.
Price $8.
 


Untitled.
Condition 8.
Order #4587.
Price $5.
 


Untitled.
Condition 6, including split mount at top left corner.
Order #4588.
Price $2.
 


Graves, Philadelphia. 'Goodbye Darling, I'll be home early'.
Condition. Lonf surface scratch on right image - almost views out.
Order #4589.
Price $2.
 


'She won't let him'. Story of my life!
Condition 6.
Order #4590.
Price $2.
 

There now follows a few views featuring policemen


Back to insulting the Irish. 'You're too dacent a ghirl to be in the arms of the police'. ('arms' get it?).
Condition 7 (but small ink mark on policeman's right leg in r/h image).
Order #4591.
Price $8.
 
 


'The long and short of it'. Mechanically produced view.
Condition 8 (very clear).
Order #4592.
Price $6.
 


'Come, wake up and move on'. Real photo.
Condition 7/8.
Order #4593.
Price $12.
 


'Come out of that'. Cheaper reversed version of the previous view.
Condition 9.
Order #4594.
Price $6.

Here endeth the policemen



 


'Path of true love never runs smooth'.
Condition. Images 7 at least but mount a bit frayed and damaged top r/h corner.
Order #4595.
Price $6.
 


Untitled.
Condition 8.
Order #4596.
Price $6.
 


HHS, London. Untitled reprint on heavy mount from the 1890s of an 1850s view.
Condition around 6.
Order #4597.
Price $4.
 


P&S. Copyright. Small white label 'Bliss disturbed, quarter past one a.m.'. Nice clear view of histrionics.
Condition 8/9.
Order #4598.
Price $12.
 


'Ah there, Oh! Oh'.  Don't ask me.
Condition 5/6.
Order #4599.
Price $2.
 


Untitled 1850s view involving two men, a very sick lady and a watering can. Add your own caption. No prizes.
Condition 8.
Order #4600.
Price $15.
 


1850s view. 'Paul Pry'. Who was Paul Pry? Wikipedia has the answer, click  HERE. There are a number of pubs in England named after this character.
Condition 7/8.
Order #4601.
Price $15.
 


'Taking the cream'.
Condition. Light crease in the mount at center.
Order #4602.
Price $5.
 


Excelsior. 'I don't like London, give me the old farm'.
Condition. Usual Excelsior lightness.
Order #4603.
Price $5.
 


'Convenience of single life'.
Condition 8.
Order #4604.
Price $8.
 


'Necessity is the mother of invention'.
Condition 7/8.
Order #4605.
Price $8.
 


Excelsior. 'Women can't paper'. Pair with next view.
Condition. Quite good for Excelsior.
Order #4606.
Price $8.
 


Excelsior. 'Ha, ha, Men can'.
Condition 7.
Order #4607.
Price $8.
 


Excelsior. 'Sew on your own buttons; I'm going for a ride'. Another women's emancipation view.
Condition. A few small stains.
Order #4608.
Price $8.
 


'Some achieve greatness'.
Condition 8.
Order #4609.
Price $8.
 


'Beware young man, beware'. A collection of female fripperies.
Condition 6.
Order #4610.
Price $4.
 


'Confronted by two prodigious tasks - to "Pop the Question" and to "Question the Pop"'. There. I told you they were funny.
Condition 8.
Order #4611.
Price $8.
 


'King Canute and the waves'. One of my favorite humor views featuring a coal scuttle hat, a riding hat, striped socks and painted-on waves with feet showing thru. Priceless - but yours for only $10.
Condition 8.
Order #4612.
Price $10.
 


'Tit Bits'. This was the title of a magazine, well loved by the working classes, which ran from 1881 to 1984.
Condition 7.
Order #4613.
Price $8.
 


Fine Art Photographers' Publishing Co. 'Always take a horse you can drive with one hand'.
Condition 8.
Order #4614.
Price $10.
 


'An' it's me tooth! God bless you Doctor dear!'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #4615.
Price $10.
 


'A dream after seeing Pepper's ghost'. Ghost labeled 'Mustard' for some reason which I am sure you are aware of. Taken from an 1850s view with resultant loss of image quality.
Condition 8.
Order #4616.
Price $6.
 


'Hiven only knows how Mary Ann iver sid yis'. Another 'knock the Irish view'. The answer to his question is probably that Mary Ann looks like a gorilla in season.
Condition 7.
Order #4617.
Price $6.
 


'An Eye-ipener'.
Condition. Small white surface deposit on right image.
Order #4618.
Price $5.
 


'The Boatman somewhat rattled'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #4619.
Price $10.
 


'Country Accomodation'. A Chicago World's Fair view.
Condition. An amateur view of Derry and Tom's roof garden on the back.
Order #4620.
Price $10.
 


Early 20th century Rotary view on thin mount. 'They all love Jack'.
Condition 8.
Order #4621.
Price $3.
 


A.C. White. 'Help! Murder!!  FIRE!!!
Condition 8.
Order #4622.
Price $10.
 


'You did it on purpose Sir'. Better image of the bearded gent I'm trying to identify.
Condition. Staining on mount and slightly on right image.
Order #4623.
Price $6.
 


'Dutch Courtship'.
Condition. Mount is starting to delaminate and is tattered at edges. Images are OK.
Order #4624.
Price $3.
 


'Master's winning ways'. Master seriously needs to visit an occulist or sex addiction clinic. Wife is also pretty grim and gent looks a complete prat. All in all not a wholesome bunch.
Condition. Real photo - views better than scan indicates.
Order #4625.
Price $8.
 


'A nap hand'. Bearded man again.
Condition. Several scuffs, scratches and stains.
Order #4626.
Price $2.
 


1850s view. White label. 'Evening parties. Mr Bottomley gets quarrelsome and fights with Miss Longshanks' brother'.
Condition 8.
Order #4627.
Price $15.
 


'An optical delusion'. Our bearded man viewing a stereoview while the salesman snogs his wife.
Condition. Mounted by an over-excited blind man.
Order #4628.
Price $18.
 


'A sad predicament - He wants to go home'.
Condition 8.
Order #4629.
Price $10.
 


H.C. White. 'Keep him covered Mary, I'll call the police'. Mary has an astonishing amount of her left naughty bit visible.
Condition 8.
Order #4630.
Price $12.
 
 

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