Hooked Collection

Snail teeth

Dentist's equipment, dental instruments Date: 1920

A TRIREME (three banks of oars) The larger oar at the stern is for steering ; note also the lantern, and the hooked prow for ramming an enemy vessel

Comic postcard, Fishing at the seaside - I shall soon have to take my hook from here Date: 20th century

Exotic butterflies
Hooked copper, Phasis thero 1, metalmark butterfly, Riodina lysippus 2, large faun, Faunis eumeus 3, and common nawab, Charaxes athamas 4, ventral and dorsal views

Inward-bent dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium aduncum
Inward-bent dendrobium orchid or hooked dendrobe, Dendrobium aduncum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards Botanical Register

Nurse with elderly patient
Nurse wearing uniform with cape and starched cap standing next to male patient in striped dressing gown on bed. Patient is hooked up to monitor at top left. Date: circa 1990

Marriageable man
The Marriageable Man - one daughter sings, another sighs, while their mother hovers over her prey to make sure this eligible suitor is firmly hooked to one or the other Date: 1842

LCC-LFB Brigade HQ Annual Review hook ladder drill
These coordinated hook ladders drills were a popular feature during the annual displays at Lambeth Headquarters. With one firefighter on each side of the drill tower and at every window

Cartoon, Lord Cairns annoyed by his sons debts
Cartoon, Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (1819-1885) -- Keep away from him, Garmoyle, while he is like this! He appears to be annoyed about a few bills which his son, Arthur William Cairns

E Bulwer Lytton / Oval Eng
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Writer, dramatist and politician Date: 1803 - 1873

Black / Hooked-lipped Rhinoceros - two in long grass (Diceros bicornis). Kenya, Africa

A Mako Shark Hooked
A huge Mako shark being hooked off the coast of New Zealand. Date: 1928

John Morley MP pulled out by Labby and Campbell-Bannerman
The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air (cont.). John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (18381923) - British Liberal statesman

Parika scaber, leatherjacket
Ff. 247. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Melichthys vidua, pinktail triggerfish

Pterodroma solandri, Providence petrel
Drawing No. 70, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection

Gryphaea dilatata, devils toenail
This giant hooked oyster also known as a devils toenail originates from Sowerby, Upper Jurassic, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

Scissor clamps and hooked probe?. Date 1878?

Fortune Telling Canary
A young woman with a hooked nose, wearing a cloche hat, asks an old gipsy woman if her canary can tell her fortune. Date: early 1930s

On the Nose! - a mosquito hits the jackpot when encountering a fine hooter

Five shrikes perched on a bush -- lanius rufus (1, 2 & 3) and lanius collurio (4 & 5). The shrike is also known as a butcher bird, because it skewers the insects

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