Stem Collection

Algeria - Woman smoking a nargile pipe
Algeria - woman smoking a nargile (Hookah Pipe)

Biophytum sensitivum, sikerpud
Plate 190 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Ara Pacis Augustae. Scrolling acanthus relief
Roman Art. Italy. Ara Pacis Augustae. Dated 13 BC. Scrolling acanthus relief. Museum of the Ara Pacis. Rome. Italy

Stemmed plants including coffee, blueberry, papaya, argan, achras, desert date, styrax, olive, rhododendron, kalmia, gardenia, etc

Clay pipes from Southorns pipeworks, Broseley, Shropshire
A selection of clay pipes found in the workshops of Southorns pipeworks, Broseley, Shropshire - now The Broseley Pipe Museum Date: 1987

Mr Ivor Southorn, at the Brosley Clay Pipe works
Mr Ivor Southorn, whose great, great grandfather William Southorn started clay pipemaking on an industrial scale in Broseley, Shropshire

White Star Line, cut glass wine carafe
White Star Line, cut glass rare stem wine carafe, house flag to front. 9ins

A Summer Night
A portrait lithograph of a young woman, sat at a dining table, she is wearing a fashionable feathered hat, and holding a folded fan in one hand, as she grasps the stem of a wine glass with her other

Poster for Thorne's Whisky - The Spirit of the Barley'. Date: 1903

Japanese flower arrangement with leaves and flowers, vase and tray. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Guide to preparing flowers for Japanese flower arranging, ikebana. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Artwork by Florence Auerbach, three red poppies. Date: late 19th century

Hauling Sandbags Date: 1941

Black-Tailed Hermit, Glaucis Melanura Date: 1859

Abandoned kiln and buildings at Southorns pipeworks Broseley, Shropshire - now The Broseley Pipe Museum. The kiln which held between 75, 000 and 100, 000 pipes in each firing

Account book and clay pipes found at Southorns pipeworks
Account book and clay pipes found in the workshops of Southorns pipeworks, Broseley, Shropshire - now The Broseley Pipe Museum Date: 1987

Seoul, South Korea - Shinshi Men smoking long-stemmed pipes. Date: circa 1920s

Two women smoke from a hookah pipe, Algeria
Two women smoke from a hookah pipe in Algeria, North Africa. One woman is seated and holds the stem of the sheesha pipe near her mouth, ready to inhale

Art nouveau menu design with leaves and flowers. Date: circa 1920s

South Korea - A Shinshi smoking a long-stemmed pipe
South Korea - A venerable Korean man smoking a long-stemmed pipe and wearing a traditional style of top hat. Date: circa 1910s

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Ashanti implements and weapons
A. Sanko, musical instrument B. Cushion C. Ashanti Ministers state bag D. Fantee stool, cut out of solid block of cotton wood E. and F. War Greegrees or charms made of leather and straw worked in G

Engraved Jacobite airtwist drinking glass, 1760 (c). The bell bowl is engraved with an open thistle and two buds and a single moth, on a double-knopped mufti-spiral airtwist stem and conical foot

Elderly Chinese man in hat smoking a long pipe
Fantastic photographic postcard of an elderly Chinese man wearing a wide-brimmed woven straw hat smoking a very long-stemmed pipe. Date: circa 1910s

The American Cowslip (Dodecatheon), engraved by Warner after Henderson, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837). The book was published between 1799 and 1807

Salix viminalis, osier willow
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London. Osier willow foliage

Arnaut soldier, Ottoman Empire
An Arnaut Soldier, viewed from the rear, with a musket slung over his shoulder. He carries a tobacco pipe with a very long stem in his right hand

Language of Flowers Card
The red rose says I am burning for you ! but the roses thorny stem says No !

Fairy Holds Grasses
A fairy supports herself on a stem by holding onto grasses

X-Ray - Hop Stem Parasite - Section of plant. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

Stem rust, Puccinia, wheat, Triticum aestivum - By Franz Bauer. Paper, watercolour, signed. London, Natural History Museum, Library and Archives, Unfinished Drawings of Plants, vol. 6, no. 77

White flowers on a religious birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Three cats in a basket on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Japanese Geisha examining some plants - studio photographic portrait (this same backdrop can be seen in a number of Geisha photographic studies). Date: circa 1902

Christmas Hamper
A Christmas hamper, full of seasonal treats such as ox tongue, young stem ginger, jellied fruits and fresh meat and of course, a fresh turkey. Date: 1930s

Fruit / Lemon
Two lemons still attached to their flowering plant stem. Date: mid 19th century

German place card design by R Beauclair, showing two Edwardian ladies in a floral setting. Date: circa 1910s

Large leaved angelica plant: full plant from root clump, stem, leaves and florets.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants

Leaves and stems of Japanese pepper, Piper futo-kadzura Sieb.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Several large dark green leaves and three thick stems of the Inula helenium plant.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants

Yellow root, stem and green leaves of lovage, Ligusticum ibukiense.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Roots, stem and leaves of the mountain peony, Paeonia obovata.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Roots, stem and leaves of angelica polymorpha.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Brown stem with several leafy stalks and tiny white florets of Angelica miqueliana Maxim.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Large brown root and thick striped stem of licorice root. Ligusticum acutilobum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Winged-stem passion flower with crimson, purple and white flowers, Passiflora alata superba.. Drawn and zincographed by C. T

Spindle stem, Agaricus fusipes.. Spindle stem, Agaricus fusipes. Chromolithograph of an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, Robert Hardwicke

A curved stem pipe, finely hand carved - WWI
A curved stem pipe, finely hand carved by and belonging to Driver P. S. Wilson, a lorry driver with the Army Service Corps. during the First World War

A straight stem pipe, finely hand carved - WWI
A straight stem pipe, finely hand carved by and belonging to Driver P. S. Wilson, a lorry driver with the Army Service Corps. during the First World War. Signature on base of pipe - P. S. WILSON

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