Needle Collection (page 5)

Advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit Sauce
Back of an advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit Sauce, of two bottles side by side -- actually an opened out needle holder. The verse describes how a husband would not eat any meat until his wife bought

Cover design, Weldons Beautiful Needlework, No. 2, showing a young woman in a crinoline dress sewing. Date: circa 1920s

Shepherds needle, Scandix pecten veneris, and hemlock chervil, Scandix anthriscus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician 1792

Surgical equipment for couching and the extraction of a cataract.. Surgical equipment for couching and the extraction of the cataract: Scarpas couching needle, Heys couching needle, Pelliers hook

Needle-leaved daviesia, Daviesia acicularis.. Illustration by Sydenham Edwards, engraved by Weddell. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Samuel Curtiss The Curtis Botanical Magazine, 1826

Glaucous-leaved Adams needle with pale yellow flowers, Yucca glauca, native of Carolina.. Illustration by John Curtis (the entomologist), engraved by Weddell

Fakir or fukeer, enthusiast.. handcolored copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from Asiatic Costumes, Ackermann, London, 1828

The Needle, Great Gable, Cumbria
The Needle, Great Gable, Seascale, Cumbria, England. Date: 1900s

A Chinese Woman darning, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

The Needle Worker, WW1 knitting & sewing booklet
Front cover of monthly magazine, The Needle Worker, from the Great War period featuring a photograph of a Belgian kepi cap - the knitting pattern for which was inside. Date: c.1915

Doll dressed in crochet as a soldier, WW1
A doll dressed in a crocheted military uniform - pattern in The Needle Worker magazine, March 1915. Date: 1915

WW1 knitting booklet, The Higbee Company
The Knitting Needle has again come into its own. Front cover of a small booklet published by the Higbee Company (USA) containing patterns for knitting comforts for troops during the First World War

Alloa knitting wools by John Patons, 1899
Advertisement for Alloa knitting wools by John Paton and Son, dated 1899. Though the company merged with J.P Coates in the 1960s, the Patons trademark continues in use today. Date: 1899

Riddle rhyme. Old Mother Twitchet had but one eye? Answer: Needle & cotton. Date: circa 1917

Ladies of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework Guild
Members of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework Guild. On 10th August 1914 Queen Mary issued an appeal to the women of the Empire to organise a large collection of garments for those who will suffer

Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis
Talkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931

Moving Cleopatras Needle, Cairo, Egypt. It was one of three which went to London, Paris and New York respectively during the 19th century. Date: circa 1870

Moving Cleopatras Needle, Egypt -- it was one of three which went to London, Paris and New York respectively during the 19th century. Date: circa 1870

Cleopatras Needle in silhouette
Cleopatras Needle situated on the Victoria Embankment, London, watched over by the sphinx. The artist describes it rather poignantly as That Sad Stone. Date: 1926

Searchlights over Thames Embankment, London, WW1
Searchlights over the Thames Embankment near Charing Cross, London, keeping watch for enemy aircraft in the early days of the First World War. Cleopatras Needle can be seen on the right. Date: 1914

Larding needles-cooking apparatus designed to push fat into meat, to keep it moist and flavoursome during the cooking process

Cholera vaccination in Spain
A doctor innoculates a worried gentleman with the cholera vaccine. Date: 1885

Thames Embankment
The Embankment, showing the Savoy Hotel and Cleopatras Needle. Date: 1895

Marie Antoinette Note
A note pricked with a needle by the captive queen : I am closely watched, I speak to no one. I confide myself to you, I will come. Date: circa October 1793

SPOOKY EMBANKMENT
A strangely eerie London Embankment, with the silhouette of Cleopatras Needle standing among the row of street lamps. Date: early 1930s

Tramps under the Sphynx
Down-and-out men sleeping under the sphynx at the base of Cleopatras Needle on the Victoria Embankment, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Head of a Sphinx
The head of a bronze Sphinx, on the Embankment, London, one of a pair made to compliment Cleopatras Needle, which was was brought from Egypt to England in 1878. Date: early 1930s

Hotel Cecil and Embankment, London - at night. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind
" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942

Cleopatras Needle and Whitehall Court, London. Date: circa 1920s

Thread and Needle Street, St. Georges, Bermuda
Thread and Needle Street, St. George s, Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

Parus ater, coal tit, Parus major, great tit
Plate 25 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Muscicapa striata, spotted flycatcher
Plate 120 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Bone needles of Magdalenian age
Bone needles dating back to about 15, 000 years ago. The Magdalenian tools discovered in France are believed to have belonged to early Homo sapiens who hunted reindeer during the last ice age

Connellite
Deep-blue velvety crust of needles with some red cuprite. Connellite comprises of (hydrated copper sulphate chloride hydroxide). Specimen from Wheal Muttrell, Gwennap, Cornwall

Black basalt lava
This basalt lave has cooled quickly and gas bubbles have formed into balls of fragile, needle-sharp crystals of zeolite minerals

Millerite comprises of (nickel sulphide) and is characterized by hair-like fibrous crystals arranged into sprays. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Carduelis pinus, pine siskin
Plate 180 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Raper drawing No. 5
View of SW coast of the Isle of Wight, 1. St Catherines Point; 2. the Needle Point. Painting by George Raper, 1789

Pinicola enucleator, pine grosbeak
Plate 358 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Hemimorphite crystals enclosed in rock crystal
Hemimorphite, formerly known as calamine is comprised of (hydrated zinc silicate hydroxide). Magnification = x1.2

The Magic Patches. Orphan girl Linda sews patches on the coat of a beggar-man

Tailor sewing by a stream

Boy sewing in a window

Thames Embankment / Cx
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT near Charing Cross, with Cleopatras Needle Date: 1922

Two kinds of pine needle flowers and a kind of anemone. Date 1755

Thames embankment, London, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Scoring, --coming up for the word: Little Fred, Needle Gun, Jessie Wales, Belle of Brooklyn, Old Put, and Lady Whitman. Date c1869

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