Acorn Collection

Common oak tree, Quercus robur. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Melanerpes erythrocephalus, red-headed woodpecker
Plate 20, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Prince George - Duke of York (1865 - 1936), later King George V. Photograph taken when he was twenty- eight, shortly before his marriage to Princess May of Teck

Kate Greenaway
A Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Illustration to page 131 Date: 1875

Kate Greenaway
A Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Illustration to page 121 Date: 1875

Kate Greenaway
A Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Illustration to page 91 Date: 1875

Kate Greenaway
A Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Illustration to page 61 Date: 1875

Kate Greenaway
A Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Illustration to page 38 Date: 1875

Kate Greenaway
A Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Frontispiece Date: 1875

Kate Greenaway
A Cruise in the Acorn by Alice Jerrold. Front cover. Date: 1875

Embroidery patterns for fruits, berries and acorns. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by A

Oak tree with acorns, leaves and branch, Quercus robur

Sessile oak and Valonia oak
Sessile oak, Quercus petraea 1, and Valonia oak, Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis 2. Speisefrucht-Eiche, chene grec, Quercus esculus, Knopper-Eiche, chene a grosses cupules, Quercus aegilops

19th century brass and wood tiller bar
MARITIME: A good quality 19th century brass and wood tiller bar with an acorn type handle which unscrews to replace the wooden handle. Measuring 35ins. long. Weighs 7.5kg

King of Acorns, German Playing Card. circa 1900

Cork oak, Quercus suber. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Oak and Myrtle (Measure for Measure). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare, Day and Haghe, London, 1845

Sessile oak, Quercus petraea (Durmast oak, Quercus sessiliflora)

Common British oak tree, Quercus robur

Acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus (Black-bearded woodpecker, Picus melanopogon). Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1829

Black oak, Quercus velutina
Black oak, yellow-barked oak or quercitron, Quercus velutina (Quercus tinctoria)

White oak or valley oak, Quercus alba. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Photograph of Acorn PH, Stifford Clays, Essex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 12954

The Acorn Harvest at Chingford, Epping Forest
Acorns being harvested in Epping Forest, near Chingford in 1904. The acorns were collected and sold at 6d. a bushel, and were chiefly bought for feeding to pigs. Date: 1904

Squirrel and acorns on a greetings card with verse -- Rough Winter. Date: circa 1890s

Signpost on coastal footpath near Torquay, Devon. Date: circa 1990s

London Trade Card - Matthias Darly, Paper Hangings
London Trade Card - Matthias Darly, Manufactory for Paper Hangings, painter, engraver and paper stainer, wholesale and retail, at the Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand

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

Bird in oak leaves with acorns
A bird in a clump of oak leaves with acorns. Date: circa 1920s

Governor and scouting leader at a rally, Mauritius
The Governor of Mauritius, Sir John Shaw Rennie (1917-2002), presenting scouting leader Guy de la Hogue with the Silver Acorn at a rally

Hand-painted trench sign. COY (Company) HQ with a cockerel & diamond shape containing oak leaves and an acorn. Trench Art

British coins, two George V sixpences for 1928 and 1929. With oak leaves and acorns on the reverse. Date: late 1920s

Design for Printed Textile in beige and brown. Charcoal and pencil on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1934

Sitta pusila, brown-headed nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, whi
Plate 22, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Quercus robur, oak tree
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lullula arborea, woodlark
Plate 16 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Geothlypis trichas, common yellowthroat
Plate 24 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Quiscalus major, boat-tailed grackle
Plate 187 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

Quercus sp. oak
Ripe acorns and oak leaves. Photographed by Pat Hart, Summer 2003

Melanerpes carolinus, red-bellied woodpecker Picoides villos
Plate 19, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Dedroica magnolia, magnolia warbler

Pica nuttallii Cyanocitta stelleri Aphelocoma californica Nu
Plate 362 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

Silhouette, Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow

Lambeth Bridge Columns
The columns at each end of Lambeth Bridge, London, with their distinctive pineapple embellishments. The bridge was opened by King George V on 12 July 1932. Date: opened 12 July 1932

Blue Mosque, Istanbul and the Hippodrome
The Blue Mosque (The Sultan Ahmed Mosque - designed by royal architect Sedefhar Mehmet Aga, a pupil of Sinan), Istanbul (Constantinople) and the Hippodrome

The Atheist & the Acorn
The fable of the atheist and the acorn

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