Blades Gallery
Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 39 pictures in our Blades collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
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One of three miniature metal Sikh kirpan daggers
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). Possibly collected by Lt G A Wilson. The kirpan is a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men wear at all times as a symbol of their religion. Date: 1857
© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library
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George Cayleys design (side elevation)
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 swivelled. 4 March 1837. Date:
© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library
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Featured Print
To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this
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, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by... Wm. Hincks. Print shows an interior view of a scutch mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fiber. Date 1791 June 20. 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, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by... Wm. Hincks. Print shows an interior view of a scutch mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fiber. Date 1791 June 20. Date:
© Mary Evans / Library of Congress
