Bate Collection

Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900s
Various machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900

Bullion Office. Bank of England. Balance for Dollars
Engraving of weighing scales invented by Mr Bate for weighing dollars not exceeding 72 lbs 2 oz troy

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Enlarged View of
Engraving of a detail of the Sovereign weighing machine invented by Mr Bate to deal with the crisis in light gold coinage in the early eighteen forties

Bullion Office. Bank of England. Balance for Bar Silver
Engraving of fine weighing scales for bars of silver, with a bar of silver on one side of the scales and the weights on the other

Dwarf elephant tooth
Tooth and jawbone of the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, between 10, 000 and 800, 000 years old. This fossil tooth

Thomas, Lord Coningsby 1656 - 1729 (1692). Bate, Thomas fl. c. 1692. This is the only work known by Thomas Bate, who worked in Ireland towards the end of the seventeenth century

Pygmy elephant tooth shown here next to one of normal size. Discovered around 1901 by Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951)

Dorothea Bate at lunch with collegues at the Natural History Museum in 1935

The Geology Department, 1938
Photograph of members of staff who worked in the Natural History Museums Geology Department in 1938

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate (1879-1951)
Portrait of Dorothea Minola Alice Bate, a geologist

The Woman Who Spent 10 In A Woolworth Store, by H. M. Bate
A humorous illustration showing a lady who has bought everything in a department store. Woolworths was particularly renowned for its low-cost goods

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Bates Scales fo
In June 1842 a proclamation was issued announcing that a large prportion of the gold coinage in Britain had become worn and devalued and was below its prescribed weight of five penny weights

Sir Henry Bate Dudley
SIR HENRY BATE DUDLEY - English writer

Silversmiths at Work
Silversmiths at work - illustration to the prophecies of Jeremiah, chapter 6, who likens the wicked to repro- -bate silver which the Lord rejects as not up to standard

Simon Bolivar / M N Bate
SIMON BOLIVAR South American soldier, statesman and revolutionary leader - known as the Liberator

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