Ash Collection (page 2)

Ash tree, Fraxinus excelsior. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Manna ash or flowering ash, Fraxinus ornus. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Manna ash, Fraxinus ornus (Ornus europaea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Advert for Swan and Edgar - Christmas present ideas 1928
A selection of weird looking gifts for smokers, all available from Swan and Edgar. Date: 1928

General view of the Foro Civile, Pompeii, Italy
General view of the Foro Civile (public forum), Pompeii, Italy, with Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Date: circa 1900

Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, circa 1920s
Street scene showing Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton, circa 1920s. Chas Clark and sons garage and coach builders can be seen on the corner Date: c. 1920s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 565
Hemiptera: Psylla fraxini = Psyllopsis fraxini (Ash Chermes, Jumping-louse) [Plant: Fraxinus excelsior (Common Ash)] Date: 1824-39

Ashes of burnt bodies during Chinese plague outbreak
Mounds of ashes of cremated bodies and coffins during the plague outbreak in China around 1911. Officials with their faces covered by masks or cloths stand by the ash heaps. Date: C.1911

LAVEROCK EFFIGY
An effigy of a member of the Laverock family buried in a church at Ash, Kent. He wears chain mail, his hands are arranged in prayer & his feet rest on a lion

Windsor armchair and ladder-back armchair
Windsor armchair with a high-back double-bow and fleur-de-lys motif in the pierced central splat, made from beech, cherry and willow, with an elm seat

Windsor armchair, detail
Windsor armchair with a continuous arm and back bow made from ash with an elm seat, possibly manufactured in Yealmpton, Devon, c.1820. Date: c.1820

Windsor side chair with hoop back made from ash with a sycamore seat, painted to imitate bamboo, possibly manufactured in Yealmpton, Devon, c.1820. Date: c.1820

Windsor side chair with hoop back, detail
Windsor side chair with hoop back made from ash with a sycamore seat, painted to imitate bamboo, possibly manufactured in Yealmpton, Devon, c.1820. Date: c.1820

Spindle-back armchair, detail
Triple-row spindle-back armchair made of ash with a rush seat, stamped J.RIDING, possibly manufactured by John Riding in Macclesfield, Cheshire, c.1818. Date: c. 1818

Ladder-back side chair, detail
Ladder-back side chair, with three decoratively curved & pierced ladders in the back, made from ash with a rush seat, probably made in Lincolnshire, c.1780-1820. Date: c.1780-1820

Ladder-back armchair, detail
Ladder-back armchair square cabriole front legs made from ash, with a rush seat, probably made by the Ashton family of chairmakers from Louth, Spilsby and Alford, Lincolnshire, c. 1780-1820

Ash and elm wood chair Date: 1700 - 1800

St Gabriels Convent, Cold Ash, Berkshire

?Morning star? trench club, World War One, 1915 (c); wooden head made from a polo ball (?) with bullet spikes, ash handle and a leather strap secured with twine

Ruins of Saint-Pierre, Martinique - Eruption of Mount Pelee
Ruins of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, entirely destroyed by the eruption of Mount Pelee which had been supposed extinct. Date: 1902

Princess Elizabeth invested as a bard
Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, is invested as a bard at Mountain Ash on the 6th August 1946 at the Welsh Eisteddfod. Date: 1946

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