Prize Collection (#7)

Marie Curie in her office
3779327 Marie Curie in her office; (add.info.: Marie Curie in her office at the Radium Institute, Paris 1925. MC: Polish-born French physicist and pioneer in radioactivity)

Marie Curie with her daughters Irene and Eve
3779330 Marie Curie with her daughters Irene and Eve; (add.info.: Marie Curie with her daughters Irene and Eve, 1908. MC: Polish-born French physicist and pioneer in radioactivity)

White Dorking fowl, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Miss Fairhurst and first prize winner at Colchester 1873

White-crested black Polish chickens, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by P. Unsworth and winners of numerous cups and prizes

Dark Brahma cockerel, Gallus gallus domesticus, Lady Gwydyrs Sultan, cup at Middleton 1871, winner at Crystal Palace, Birmingham, Bristol

Advert, L & H Nathan, Fancy Dress Costume
Advert for L & H Nathan, Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus, London -- Fancy Dress Costume for balls and theatricals. 1885

Mrs Barbara Taylor of Graham Court, Lansbury Park, Caerphilly sits astride a BSA Aerial 3 three wheeled moped which she won in a South Wales Echo competition at he Echos gala day at mainly Stadium

Seven-year-old Edie Morgan won a small part of the burned York Minster for her efforts to design a piece for the ministers ceiling

Liverpool manager Bob Paisley is awarded the Bells Scotch Whisky manager of the Month Award before his sides 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest at Anfield. 1st May 1982

Milburn Stafford with his prize-winning 1920 steam road locomotive on 4th June 1984 at the Veteran Commercial Vehicle Rally, from Stockton to South Shields

Prince of Wales presents cup to Cliff Porter, captain of The Invincibles, the nickname given to the 1924-25 New Zealand rugby union team which toured the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Canada

Silhouette of an African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) snarling, Mkuze, South Africa. September. White Fang - this leopard bared its fangs to the hyenas threatening his prey

USA, Indiana, Indianapolis. Prizes in a game booth on fair midway. Credit as: Wendy Kaveney / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

Louis Bleriot after His First Crossing of the English Ch?
Louis Bleriot after His First Crossing of the English Channel on Sunday 25th July 1909 Date: 1920s

Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen, c. 1585-90 (oil on canvas)
2962858 Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen, c.1585-90 (oil on canvas) by Backer, Jacob de (c.1555-c.1585); 119.4x171.5 cm; J

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916), Spanish writer, engineer, dramatist and politician. Photograph in the Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1905

Agres Gonxa Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa, called Teresa ((1910-1997), Nobel Peace Prize 1979, photo 1986

The Commodore's Cup of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Commodore's Cup of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, 1865. The...town cup, won the previous week by the Aline, schooner, belonging to Mr. Thellusson, was manufactured by Mr

The Cogswell Challenge-Cup of the British North American Rifle Volunteers...Nova Scotia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Cogswell Challenge-Cup of the British North American Rifle Volunteers at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1865. Trophy...given by Mr. James C

Schooner Prize of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Schooner Prize of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, 1865. At the meeting of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, three weeks ago, the prize of the match for schooners and yawls was won by the Speranza, yawl

Rampoor Prize Cup of the Northern India Rifle Association, won by Mr. R. G. Currie... 1864. Creator: Unknown
Rampoor Prize Cup of the Northern India Rifle Association, won by Mr. R. G. Currie, at the Agra shooting-match, 1864. The Northern India Rifle Association

Prize cup, value £100, presented to the North-East London Rifle Corps, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Prize cup, value £100, presented to the North-East London Rifle Corps, 1864. The North-East London Rifle Corps, who at the beginning of this year presented a handsome sword

Tankard presented to the Nottingham (Robin Hood) Rifle Corps by the Duke of St. Albans, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Tankard presented to the Nottingham (Robin Hood) Rifle Corps by the Duke of St. Albans, 1864. A handsome tankard has been manufactured at Coventry by the Skidmore Art-Manufactures Company for

Winning the cup JLP01_08_065284
Peter Hipkin, captain of the Laing Sports Clubs 1st football team, being presented with the Senior Challenge Cup by V Ball, Vice-President of the London Commercial League

Dinner Gala Prize Giving Prizegiving Presentation
2012 GP2 Series Season Celebration "Le Boreas", River Seine, Paris, France 19th October 2012 Luiz Razia (BRA, Arden International). Portrait

Sir William Ramsay, Nobel Prize for Chemistry

W D B Creagh, boxer, prohibition message, probably 1920s

Goodshaw Prize Band

Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Window Display with a musical theme Date: 1948

The reverse of a Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard detailing information about this famous card publisher, information of the different types of card they published

Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, 1912, by Mappin and Webb, hallmarked London 1912, with fine model of Cody?s Flyer, Type No

Old Bleach Needlework Competition Advert
An advertisement promoting a £1000 prize competition for needlework, hosted by the Old Bleach Linen Co. Ltd. Date: circa 1921

Pappillion
A portrait painting of an unknown woman wearing a distinctive yellow dress, stood upon a black and white tiled floor. This artwork won a £10 prize in the Colour competition. Date: circa 1915

No. 4 Detachment, 3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers
The No. 4 Detachment of the Third Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, the winners of the Queen's prize at the recent artillery meeting at Shoeburyness, 1885

Stills from The Beauty Prize
The Beauty Prize (here captioned as The Beauty Contest') was a silent film from 1924, now lost. It starred Viola Dana (1897-1987). Date: 1924

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916). Spanish engineer, playwright, politician and mathematician. Leading of the Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century

Miss Collins
A portrait oil painting of Miss Gladys Neville Collins, daughter of trustee of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria, J. T. Collins. Date: circa 1925

Dr. Hamilton
A portrait oil painting of Dr. Hamilton, who is wearing a heavy long coat, with a white scarf, with a proud pose. Date: circa 1923

Professor Harrison Moore
A portrait oil painting of Australian lawyer and academic professor at the University of Melbourne, Sir William Harrison Moore

A Valley of the Tweed
Oil painting showing sunlight striking a landscape of hills and distant mountains. Awarded the Wynne Prize in 1921. Date: circa 1921

Lengthmen - Prize Length, Newport Division, 1943 - Newport, South Wales. The term Lengthsman was coined in the 18th century in a concept rooted in the Tudor Era as far back as War of the Roses

George Gale Prize Old Ale

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1 XV744 at St, Pancras
Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 XV744 (712007), of the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit, at St, Pancras Station coal-yard, for the 1969 Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race. Flown by Sqn. Ldr

Poster, Cycles Saving, Grand Premier Prix, Gold Medal, 13 Rue Corbeau, Paris. Safe enough to strap your baby onto the handlebars! Date: circa 1900s

Kenya - East Africa - Two Italian Elephant Hunters and the sad sight of their prize'. Date: circa 1910s

Henri Farman - Flight of One Kilometre 1908
British-French pilot Henri Farman winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of 50, 000 francs at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. For the successful flight of an aircraft heavier than air

Henri Farman (1874 - 1958), British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer. Appearing on the front cover of ?The Illustrated London News

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and communist politician
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet and Communist Party politician, previously named Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Date: circa 1960s

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