Images: the Strange and Unusual
Cabinet Photographs
"Naval Mounted Horse"
Novelty Cabinet Photograph
Hong Kong
c. 1900's
P.O.W.?
c. 1890s
Girl in 17th
Lancers Uniform
Post 1902
5th Royal Irish
Lancer
Chicago, Illinois,
USA
c. 1890
Double Sided
Cabinet
Photograph
c. 1900
US Cavalryman
Salford, Manchester,
England
c. 1880's
Carte de Visites
Army Service
Corps Private
and Handicapped
Brother
c. 1890
Mounted Photographs
Unmounted Photographs
Post Cards
A Prisoner of the
Zulus?
c. 1900
"Isandlwana"
Japanese Post Card
c. 1900
Bugler Govier &
Lt Col. Curzon
Rifle Brigade
c. 1895
Lancer Dobinson
"One of the 600"
c. 1890
Teaching an Old
Dog a New
Trick
c. 1880
Scottish Rifle
Volunteer
Parody
c. 1870
Stereoviews
Unusual backwards
Stereoview
c. 1890
Postal Cover addressed to No7709 Pte. Jones
B Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot. Rorke's
Drift, Natal.

22 January, 1879
A seeming incredibly rare
postal cover mailed from
the island of Lundy to a
certain Private Jones of B
Company, 24th Foot and
postmarked to arrive at the
mission station of Rorke's
Drift on the fateful 22nd
day of January 1879.

The cover is postmarked
Lundy Island, 8 January,
1879. Counter marked by
the Army Post Office Natal,
22 Jaunary, 1879. The ship
letter stamp indicates that
this letter was to be posted
to Pte. Jones via Royal Mail
Steamer. The letter is
marked "undelivered" on
the reverse....
Other Unusual Items
Girl in uniform of
the 4th Volunteer
Battalion - The
Hampshire
Regiment
c. 1890
Girl in Highland Costume
Wearing 1877-79 South
Africa (Zulu War) Medal
Ireland
c. 1900
Lady in Red
Stereoview
c. 1860's