Blades Collection

One of three miniature metal Sikh kirpan daggers, nd. Blades shaped like pesh-kabz. Hilts of metal rod, with moulding. Believed to be associated with the indian Mutiny (1857-1859)

Steam turbine blades - Sir Charles Parsons
Steam turbine blades from an early sketch by Sir Charles Parsons, 1897 Date: 1897

BAC Jet Provost T. 5 XW302
BAC Jet Provost T.5 XW302 (msn ), of the Linton Blades at Woodford in August 1972. Date: 1972

Tuaghs (from the Gaelic, tuagh-chatha), also known as Lochaber axes, a type of poleaxe, Scottish battle axes used in medieval times, preserved at Edinburgh

Southampton RMS Olympic propeller Blades probably 1932

RMS Olympic - document regarding blades
RMS Olympic - Harland & Wolff document relating to the brazing of turbine blades and the chipping and dressing of propeller blades, dated 6 February 1913. Date: 1913

QSS Lusitania - souvenir of launch, commemorative 18 carat gold handled scissors, with stainless steel blades, the crossover engraved with John Brown and Co

Spain, Castile-La Mancha, Toledo province. Consuegra. View of the Castle (stronghold of Knights of San Juan) and a windmill. Date: 2011

Sikorsky YCH-54A Tarhe 64-14203 (msn 64005), on display, at the US Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia. Date: circa 1998

John Blades upper showroom of ornamental glass and chandeliers, Ludgate Hill, London. Crystal and cut glass manufacturer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by John Gendall

Tools used in roof thatching, West Country, UK
Tools used in roof thatching in the West Country, UK. Date: circa 1960s

The lyonois or lyonnoise, a machine for defending a breach, invented by Bonnerville in Lyons. Copperplate engraving from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army

Advert for Lillywhites skating items 1930
Advertisement for skating items, available at Lillywhites, Piccadilly Circus, London. Date: 1930

Letterhead, Smarts Brick Works, Harborne, Birmingham
Letterhead, Smarts Brick Works Limited, California, Quinton, Harborne, Birmingham 32, West Midlands. circa 1910s

An Ancient British warrior and his chariot
An Ancient Briton with his war chariot. Note the sold form of the wheels and the addition of scythe blades to cause additional damage when engaging enemy forces. Date: Circa 100BC

Farming Equipment Date: 1880

Plough Date: 1880

Curtiss-Wright propeller blade with wider hollow steel ?
Curtiss-Wright propeller blade with wider hollow steel blades, left, now being fitted onto the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, is compared with the previous blade used on the aircraft

Test pilot Gerard Demunk - front of Curtiss-Wright propeller
Test pilot Gerard Demunk stands in front of a Curtiss-Wright propeller with wider hollow steel blades, fitted to a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

RMS Titanic - nail scissors recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - silver mounted steel nail scissors with rusted steel blades

London Trade Card - John Brailsford, Cutler, St Martins Court, Leicester Fields. 18th century

Tools of Bromme Culture. 11000 BC
Bromme Culture, 11000 BC. Points, scrapers, burins, blades and cores. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Propellers for Britains Warplanes: Machining the Blades - The Edge-milling process, in which upper and lower fixed rotary cutters mill the leading

Two boys sharpening knives - Medenine, Tunisia, North Africa Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Durham Duplex Safety Razor 1914
A close shave but in comfort with Durham Duplex Safety Razor, the razor which enables you to shave with the barbers diagonal stroke without fera of cutting yourself

Poster, Gillette Blades. circa 1930s

Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia - Ice Yachting - almost as fast and dangerous as motoring !! Date: 1908

Funerary trappings of a mans grave at Dragsholm. 3800 BC
Funerary trappings of a mans grave. From left to right: Deer antler point, bone pin, wristguard of bone, battle axe of stone, arrowheads of flint and flint blades. Early Neolithic Period. 3800 BC

Windmill. Spain
Windmill at sunset. Campo de Criptana. Castile-La Mancha. Spain

CASTILE-LA MANCHA. CAMPO DE CRIPTANA. Aerial view with typic
Spain. Castile-La Mancha. Campo de Criptana. Typical windmills. Aerial view

Sun on steel. Old plough blades shining in the sun. Date: 1950s

James Blades Timpanist
James Blades playing kettle drums at the Aldeburgh Festival 1961 Date: 1961

Imogen Holst with James Blades
Imogen Holst and James Blades in Orford Church, early July 1961, with the handbells used in Brittens Noyes Fludde Date: 1961

James Blades Score for Beggars Opera
The percussion part sketch for Act II of The Beggars Opera (not in Brittens hand, nor that of Imogen Holst). Almost certainly notes by James Blades. Date: 1963

James Blades teaching Suffolk Schoolchildrens Orchestra
James Blades helping two members of the Suffolk Schoolchildrens orchestra in rehearsal for Noyes Fludde at Orford Church on 5 July 1962 Date: 1961

James Blades with Paul Sacher
James Blades, percussionist, talking with Paul Sacher, conductor, during a rehearsal of the English Chamber Orchestra for the Aldeburgh Festival concert in the Jubilee Hall on 2 July 1961 Date: 1961

James Blades and Imogen Holst during a break in rehearsals on Crag Path, behind Festival Cottage, which then housed the Office. Aldeburgh Festival 1961. Date: 1961

James Blades in rehearsal, Aldeburgh Festival
James Blades in rehearsal by the font of Aldeburgh Parish Church, Aldeburgh Festival Choral and Orchestral Concert, 24 June 1962 Date: 1962

Advert for Star safty razor 1915
Star safety razor, your chum at the front deserves the best that money can buy. With finest sheffield steel hollow- ground blade that lasts a lifetime. 1915

Curtiss P40 Warhawk Fighter Aircraft - WWII
Pilot getting into the cockpit of his RAF North American P-51 Mustang. It was first flown operationally by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber

George Cayleys design (side elevation) for contra-rotating tandem airscrews for airship propulsion; the airscrews have curved blades mounted on rods radiating from the hubs; the whole mounting can be

To the right hon able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved sic rollers

Forging Razor Blades at a Sheffield Steel Works, Yorkshire

Making Scythe Blades
Charcoal burning in Germany to make scythe blades for harvesting on farms. Date: 1930s

Bonson propellor factory
E.W. Bonson. Interior of the Bonson factory, showing men working on the production of airplane propeller blades (wooden)

Machine stone cutting, Portland Prison, Dorset
A machine with toothed blades and a rotating saw cutting up stone. Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Ice-cutting Machine
A late 19th century Steam-powered Ice-cutting Machine operating on the frozen exoanse of the St Lawrence River, Canada. Possibly one of historys more risky undertakings for an apparatus of this

Tools / Knives Etc / 1889
Various types of knife, adze, axe and other blades

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