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Coopers at work making wooden barrelsFour coopers hard at work in their workshop making traditional wooden barrels. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Bismarck as BlacksmithOTTO BISMARCK Prussian statesman, depicted as Smith of the Nation, handing a newly forged sword to Germania
Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. DavisNoises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929
Blacksmith at work in his forgeAn elderly blacksmith hammering a horseshoe on his anvil. The owner of the horse awaiting a new set of shoes looks in at the window, while the blacksmiths cat scratches an ear on the work bench
Yorkshire BlacksmithThe Smithy (blacksmith) at work at his anvil in Dent, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s
Blacksmith / ChatterboxThe village blacksmith
Beckenham Blacksmith early 1900s
Anvil Point, Swanage, Dorset - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard
Souvenir / Advertising / Greetings postcard from ZurichEarly illustrated souvenir / advertising postcard from Zurich, Switzerland. Date: 1898
ANVIL TOMBSTONEThe Anvil Tombstone, an unusual and lasting memorial to a former blacksmith, at Headcorn, Kent, England. Date: 1950s
Trades in Regency England: silk weaving, jewellery and iron forge. Man weaving silk cloth on a loom in Coventry 40, customers in a fancy jewellery shop in Birmingham 41
Metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th centuryForged metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century. Horses bit, spade and napha or portfolio. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves l Afrique, Paris, 1814
Cartoon, Vulcans Best Customer (Peace)Cartoon, Vulcans Best Customer -- the angel of Peace asks the blacksmith Vulcan if hes very busy. A list of weapons to be produced is written up on the wall on the right
Farriers invoice (detail), Owen Coles, SilverstoneFarriers invoice (detail), Owen Coles, Shoeing and General Smith, Silverstone, Northamptonshire. circa 1910
Music cover, The Jolly Blacksmiths March-Twostep, written by E T Paull and E Braham. 1905
Chinese tinker with portable forge, bellows and tools, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin
Blacksmith using hammer and tongs to beat a piece of red-hot iron heated in a forge. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810
Tin-plate worker in apron beating tin on an anvil with a mallet surrounded by tin buckets, pots, urns and utensils. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades
Design, Motherwell, Scotland. 1905
Design, Falkirk, Scotland. 1905
Elves and Gnomes. 19th century
Blacksmith hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammerBlacksmith in his forge hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammer. Date: 1887
This anvil, in Mucklestone churchyard, Shropshire, England, is said to be the one used by the blacksmith who reversed Queen Margarets horseshoes in 1459. Date: 15th century
BLACKSMITH / CIRCA 1800liquor being poured out in a blacksmiths workshop. Date: circa 1800
GERMAN BLACKSMITHA German blacksmith and his assistant work on a horseshoe. Date: 19th Century
17th century BlacksmithTwo blacksmiths work with hammers at an anvil, while behind them their furnace roars. Date: 17th century
The owner of Birminghams last horseshoe factory at work in the workshop. The factory exported horseshoes all over the world. The Times Date: 1987
Photograph of an old anvil found in Kent and probably in use in 1660s at Bugsell Forge. Shown alongside a ruler. The relics were found on the site of an old iron works about 1 mile north of
Cupid with dove and envelope on a Valentine postcardCupid with white dove and envelope, white and mauve flowers in a heart shape, and an anvil, on a Valentine postcard. circa 1890s
La Crinolonomanie by Charles Vernier -- A fashionable young woman visits a blacksmith for repairs to the iron ring of her crinoline frame. circa 1850
Blacksmith (Series)Le marechal ferrand - BLACKSMITH - hammers a horseshoe on his anvil
French Railway Alphabet - U for Usine (workshop). 19th century
Two men and a horse in a blacksmiths forge. 19th century
Forge, Antrim - a view of a blacksmith at the Forge door using an anvil, other men are inside and looking at the camera. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s
Cupids and hearts on nine Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s
Chinese Soldiers in Barracks - servicing their equipment Date: circa 1908
Book of Trades, The Farrier. 1841
The Village Blacksmith by G Carlton WallaceThe Village Blacksmith by G. Carlton Wallace. First produced Theatre Royal, Bury, 20th February 1903 and Theatre Royal, Stratford, 1st August 1904. Date: circa 1904
The Sledgehammer adapted by Wilson BarrettPromotional postcard for The Sledgehammer adapted from the Flemish of Neston Le Thiers by Wilson Barrett. First produced Theatre Royal, Kilburn, 22nd February 1897. For Alfred Northway and H. V
Illustration, The Youth who could not Shiver or Shake -- The Youth took the axe and split the anvil at one blow, catching the Old Mans beard in it. Date: 1909
Mucklestone AnvilA plaque at Mucklestone, Shropshire, England, where a blacksmith reversed Queen Margarets horseshoes to aid her escape from the Battle of Blore Heath, 23 September 1459. Date: 15th century
Shaping a HorseshoeA young farrier (blacksmith) uses a hammer and chisel on his anvil to shape a horseshoe. Date: 1960s
Franco-British Exhibition - Entente Cordiale - featuring inset portraits of King Edward VII and President of the French Republic Clement Armand Fallieres (1841-1931)
Australia - Victoria - Bush Blacksmith (Gippsland Region) Date: circa 1905
Farrier - Blacksmith preparing horseshoes Date: circa 1910s
Metropolitan Police blacksmith with WPC and horsesA blacksmith shaping a horseshoe on his anvil, while a Metropolitan Police WPC watches. Two horses stand waiting in the background. Date: circa 1980s
Gretna Green Anvil and Richard RennisonRichard Rennison - the Gretna Green Anvil Priest 1926 - 1940, pictured with books recording over 2000 marriages overseen at the Old Blacksmiths Shop at Gretna in seven years
Hammerblow CureIn the Correges, France, there is a tradition that a child can be cured of certain ailments if laid on a black- smiths anvil and a mighty blow struck close to its head. Date: 1901