Flasks Collection

Industry / Cooper 1827
Coopers made flasks, tubs, pails etc; this particular cooper is putting together a hogshead. Various iron and wooden hoops wall his shop

London Trade Card - William Bull, Musical Instruments - trumpets, kettledrums, French horns, speaking trumpets, hearing horns for deaf people, powder flasks

Victoria College, Alexandria - Chemistry Laboratory
Part of the Chemistry Laboratory at the Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt

Hatch Mansfield and Co Advertisement
An advertisement for Hatch Mansfield & Co. Limited, London based winemakers, promoting old master port wine, ideal for hunting flasks, clubs and messes

Soldiers stopping to replenish their water bottles, this could be filled at certain fixed stations brought in by flexible pipes. Date: December 1917

Metal casting equipment: open sand casting 1, trowel 2, ramming tool 4, lifting screw 5, sand casting between flasks 6, cog wheel casting 7-10, and moulds for loam casting 11-13

Tea on Overcombe beach near Weymouth, South Devon - served hot from a Thermos flask in a very swanky tea hamper Date: 1938

Chad - Milk Sellers at N Djamena (Fort-Lamy). Date: circa 1930s

Four people in a car outside a Post Office
Four people sitting inside a car outside a Post Office with their picnic things set out. Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Thermos flasks WW1
Jolly advertisement for Thermos Flasks, an essential accessory to deal with trench life during the First World War. Thermos allows plenty of hot water for shaving

Advert for J. C Vickery wind screen for match box 1914
Electro-plated or polished lacquered brass, easy to use works in the must strongest winds patent match box screen. Flat silver pocket flask. 1914

Greetings card in the shape of a picnic basket
Greetings card in the shape of a wickerwork picnic basket full of delicious food. Date: circa 1890s

Sterling silver goods, Plate 207, showing bells, a trowel, bouquet holders, whistles, a dram flask, cutlery and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Advert for H. W. Koehler - vacuum flask 1912
" Autotherm", vacuum flask, maintaining heat for 24 hours and keeps liquid cool for days. 1912

Loading a cart with wine flasks, Florence, Italy - morning. Date: 1905

Pneumatics- flasks, thermometers and wind gauges, 18th century.. Pneumatics- flasks for the artificial production of Pyrmont water, thermometers by James Kewley and John Leslie

Advert for Icy-Hot vacuum flasks 1916
Keeps contents ice cold for 72 hours; hot for 24 hours, comes in container enameled in leather effect, with nickel-plated shoulder and drinking cup. 1916

Spitting flasks, from thes Maw & Sons catalogue Date: 1903

Potted Plants
Community pots - the tiny plants have been removed from flasks and are pricked off into pots. The compost is sphagnum moss and osmunda fibre - finer than normal. Date: 1955

Picnic by the roadside
Having a picnic by the roadside - tucking into a thermos of hot tea!

A Merry Christmas
A Christmas scene from the early 17th century showing seven men round a table raising goblets in the air for a toast. Several empty bottles or flasks are scattered about suggesting that a lot of wine

Making Ether / 1747
The chemical processes used to make ether

Toilet / Perfume Flasks
Old perfume flasks and pomanders

C16 Alchemists
An alchemist and his assistant heat the substances whose essence will collect in the flasks at the top of the apparatus, shedding impurities as they rise up the column

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