Block Collection (#2)

Demon Floating Sugar
Title block for a trick in a Magic dealers trick catalogue Date: 1952

A factory worker cuts a block of wood
A young apprentice carpenter uses a large industrial jigsaw to cut a block of wood, while an older employee supervises his work. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

SHOE-BLACK 1877
A Shoe-Black boy cleans and shines a gentlemans shoes on a wooden block

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

Old railway track at Winsford, Cheshire
Bullhead rail on stone sleepers at Over & Wharton (Winsford, Cheshire) on the LNWR. Possibly a re-use of redundant tramway blocks? Date: 1905

Dolphin Square, Pimlico, London Date: circa 1950

Face-turning lathe and riveting hammer, 18th century
Face-turning lathe and riveting hammer, Block Machinery at Portsmouth naval harbour, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr

A Slave Auction in Virginia, USA, 1861 A Slave Auction in Virginia, USA 1861
An auction room in Virginia, during a slave auction in 1861. A young, black slave couple with a baby stand on a mounting block as the auctioneer stands beside them, waving at the bidders. Date: 1861

New Hall, Victoria Memorial Block, Royal Sailors Rest
New Hall in the Victoria memorial Block, Royal Sailors Rest Devonport

A Block House at Fort Pitt Pittsburg USA early 1900s

German Block House at Croiselles on the Hindenburg Line, during the First World War

General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon 69-0038
Turk Hava Kuvvetleri - General Dynamics F-16C Block 40D Fighting Falcon 69-0038 (msn 4R-56), of 162 Filo, at Villafranca Air Base on 1 April 1998. (Turk Hava Kuvvetleri - Turkish Air Force)

General Dynamics F-16B 78-0089
United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-16B Block 1 78-0089 (MSN 62-15), of the 388th TFW from Hill AFB in Utah, at Norton AFB on 19 November 1980. Date: 1980

Proposed Hotel Commonwealth, New York
Artists impression of the proposed Hotel Commonwealth, New York, USA - occupying a whole block, Broadway, 55th Street, 56th Street and 7th Avenue. The project failed in the mid-1920s. Date: circa 1916

Rockefeller Center, New York, USA
RCA Building - Rockefeller Center - 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, USA. Date: 1933

The Hotel Statler, St. Louis, Missouri on Washington Avenue at Ninth and Saint Charles Streets. Date: circa 1930s

French engravers workshop, men working on wood blocks Date: 1897

H. G. Seaborne, Show A Leg!
An advertisement page promoting the services of H. G. Seaborne Ltd. a London based advertising company, specialists in block making, photography and retouching

Architectural Flats Illustration
A front cover architectural illustration of a block of flats, to a report on a competition for designs of five-storey flats, organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. Date: circa 1930s

Modernist Cottage Blocks, Dartington Hall, Devon
This photograph shows a view of a block of three modernist cottages situated at Totnes, Devon in the Dartington Hall Estate, at a section named The Warren, designed in 1935

Dundee Villas
A pair of photographs, the top shows a row of villas in Dundee, Eastern Scotland, the second shows the same row of buildings, but with fervent improvements

Wellington College Proposed Work
An architectural drawing showing a proposed exterior design for a new dining hall and administrative block at Wellington College, Berkshire, ultimately

Selection of Ogden's Tobacco Packets, Packaging and Tins
A selection of Ogden's Tobacco Packets, Packaging and Tins Date: 20th century

Black and White
A still life painting of a black and white vertically striped tea set, placed beside a pink flowered plant in a block vase. Date: circa 1917

Textiles
An illustration of some coloured decorative textiles, showing examples of early English Victorian block print and modern machine print, with floral designs. Date: circa 1916

Pears Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Pears Soap, Matchless for the complexion, the central portrait shows a woman, who has typically flawless skin, wearing a blue dress

Seaside donkey pulling a car across Block Island beach, USA
A superb photographic postcard showing a Seaside donkey pulling (a pretty stuck-looking!) car acoss a sandy beach at Block Island

Unusual period lifeboat davit block, discovered in a Southampton salvage yard. 18 inches

Block of wood with carved notches and symbols
A block of wood with a calendar of carved notches and symbols Date: 1860

Unidentified Fragment
Fragment of a leaf of a manuscript, parchment. Text in Middle German(?). The text block has wide margins above, beneath and to the left-hand side but the leaf has been cut down the right-hand side

Candlestick telephone, 1920s printer's block Date: 1920s

Telephone, printer's block Date: 1934

Mrs Block the Butcher's Wife

Mr Block the Butcher

Miss Block the Butcher's Daughter

Master Block the Butcher's Son

Large detached house - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Semi-detached houses - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Detached house - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Estate agent sign boards
Estate Agent Sign Boards, For Sale, To Let - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Bungalow - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Art Deco house
Art Deco House - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Dog begging for meal - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Three puppies in pet shop cage - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Pekingese dog - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Easter chick hatching from egg - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Cartoon style rabbit with egg - 1950s printer's block
Cartoon style rabbit with large egg - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Cartoon style rabbit - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

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