Metallic Collection

Chrysina limbata, silver chafer beetle
Silver chafer beetle specimen. The beetles have a base pigment covered by several colourless microscopically thin layers called laminae

The Nakhla meteorite fell as a shower of stones in Egypt in 1911. SNCs (Sherogtty, Nakhla and Chassigny) are a group of stony meteorites thought to come from Mars

Slice of Canyon Diablo meteorite
Iron meteorites, when sliced open and etched with acid, typically show a distinctive criss-cross pattern called a Widmanstatten pattern. This slice is 15cm across

Coleoptera sp. metallic beetles
A pair of gold and silver metallic beetles side by side

Gold nugget found in a dry river bed outside Potchefstroom, Wits. 120 km southwest of Johannesburg, October 1882. Approximately 68x48mm and 156g in weight

Poster, Attenhofer Metallic A-15 crossbow. Designed by Weiskonig. 1955

Iron meteorite
This meteorite is the product of atmospheric melting, as are stony achondrites. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Table of Elements
Table of elements of matter Listing metallic and non- metallic elements, and including various pieces of apparatus

Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot - Blue-Grey Metallic Body
Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot with grey blue body and colourful buttons and digital-style display panel

Photographs of Harry Price at Work. Full length photograph of Harry Price seated demonstrating the electrical control under which Rudi Schneider was tested

WW2 Greetings Card, R. A. F. Spitfire
A small WW2 greetings card with an attached metallic Spitfire fighter plane, placed over a night sky with search lights beaming up. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Royal Air Force Greetings Card
A small WW2 greetings card wishing the recipient good luck. The card is complete with a Royal Air Force blue ribbon and an attached metallic horse shoe. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Spitfire Greetings Card
A small WW2 greetings card wishing the recipient good luck. The illustration shows some crossed Union Jack and Royal Air Force flags, the card has a metallic Spitfire fighter plane attached

WW2 Good Luck Greetings Card
A small WW2 greetings card wishing the recipient good luck through the imagery of a black cat, the card includes a metallic horseshoe to represent the letter C in Luck. Date: circa 1940s

Oranges
A still life oil painting of some oranges, most of which are placed in a metallic bowl, another its just outside, a large vessel is nearby. Date: circa 1922

Anime armour. Hungarian type. Italian, ca. 1580. Back
Anime, articulated armour. Hungarian type. Italian, ca.1580. Back. Armoury. Grandmaster Palace. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019

Cuirassier Armour. 17th century. Grandmaster Palace. Valletta. Malta. Date: 2019

Living Bronzes at the London Hippodrome
The Three Olympiers, who posed as some of the finest bronze figures in classical art in an act at the London Hippodrome in May 1906

Downy emerald dragonfly, Cordulia aenea (Metallic dragonfly, Libellula aenea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Sawyer, jewel and longhorn beetles
Steirastoma pustulatum beetle 1, Carolina sawyer beetle, Monochamus carolinensis 2, metallic jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgens 3, and longhorn beetle, Lagocheirus araneiformis 4

Geological sections and plan of a coal mine
Plan of a coal mine and mode of ventilation, 19th century. Geological sections of metallic veins, chalk, basalt, and limestone

Liberty fashion, 1929
Fashions from Libertys in 1929 showing typical artistry and creative flair. On the left, a gown of black ring velvet draped by an artist

Princess de Faucigny Lucigne at costume ball, Venice
Princess Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, formerly Miss Liliane (Baba) d Erlanger, in her costume as water at a costume ball given by her mother

Advertisement, Metallic Venetian Blinds, Hodkinson & Co Ltd, Birmingham. 1891

Erector Set Date: 1915

Flexible Metallic Tubing Shop - 112 Queen Victoria Street, London. Flexible metallic tubing is seemingly a perfected substitute for rubber or canvas hose

Lunar meteorite
Da La Gani 400, a lunar meteorite found in the Sahara Desert

Splendour beetle
Close-up of splendour beetle with legs outstretched. Specimen held within the Entomology Department at the Natural History Museum, London

A collection of beetles
A diverse selection of beetles (coleoptera) from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Lead (Pb) is a soft but heavy, metallic element. It appears blueish white when freshly cut but quickly tarnishes to dull grey. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Copris fallaciosus, Kenyan dung beetle
Dung beetle specimen from the family Scarabaeidae, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Stern Egyptian Woman
The original model with attitude! A stern-faced Egyptian girl stands with her arms behind her back, wearing headscarf, necklace and immense hooped metallic earrings and a thin, revealing dress

Nickel-Iron meteorite
This cross-section through a nickel-iron meteorite shows the metallic lattice structure

Niccolite mineral with metallic lustre, comprises of nickel arsenide. It is also known as coppernickel and nickeline. This specimen is from the Natural History Museum, London

Sperrylite is a platinum di-arsenide (PtAs2) which occurs rarely in a few localities across the world. This specimen originates from South Africa, and is of exceptional quality

Murchison Snuff Box
The base of the gold snuff box presented to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison by Tsar Alexander II

Friedrich Wohler
FRIEDRICH WOHLER German chemist, first to obtain metallic aluminium (1827) and beryllium (1828)

Ufos / Rome, Italy
Unnamed witnesses report a metallic UFO which takes off vertically like a rocket

Southport, Merseyside - The Promenade - Aluminium postcard
Southport, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England - The Promenade - An amazing Aluminium metal postcard! Date: circa 1907

Denmark. Copenhagen. Palace Hotel. Exterior

Roman Art. Bronze mask. 2nd century
Roman Art. Bronze mask used by Roman soldiers during training. 2nd century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Head of a sacred bull. Bronze. 1st century. Found in Octodur
Roman Art. Head of a sacred bull. Bronze. 1st century. Found in Octodure (now Martigny, Switzerland). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Gold phiale. Libation bowl. 4th-3rd century B. C. Metropolita
Greek Art. Hellenistic. Gold phiale. Libation bowl. 4th-3rd century B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Bronze statue of a lion rampant. Second half of 6th century. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece

Bronze vase as lions foot. 7th-6th Century B. C. Archaic Age
Bronze vase as lions foot. 7th-6th Century B.C. Archaic Age. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece

Egyptian Lady Smokes
Egyptian woman stands holding a cigarette, her face turned away from the camera, wearing striped headscarf, necklace and metallic bangles on her wrists. Date: 1919

Wold Cottage meteorite (detail)
The earliest surviving meteorite seen to land in the UK fell in Wold Cottage, Yorkshire, in 1795. It prompted the first serious investigation into the origin of meteorites

Wold Cottage meteorite
The earliest surviving meteorite seen to land in the UK fell in Wold Cottage, Yorkshire, in 1795. It prompted the first serious investigation into the origin of meteorites

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