Centimetre Collection

Pierre Balmain with one of his designs, 1948
Photograph showing Pierre Balmain presenting a pink and white petticoat, with gueppieres that helped to achieve a 48 centimetre waist, 1948

Margaret Vergh Gryffyth, horned woman
Margaret Vergh Gryffyth, Welsh woman who exhibited herself with a 10 centimetre horn growing from her forehead

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1A undergoing an engine change
Royal Air Force - A Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1A of No.3 Squadron undergoing an engine change in the field, under the cover of an inflatable hide, during Exercise Heath Fir in Germany

IMMORTALITY FOR SALE
Immortality - at 20 francs the square centimetre ! Date: 1904

Boni Cte Castellane
BONI, comte de CASTELLANE French statesman, looking every centimetre the aristocrat... Date: 1867 - ?

Arming a Knight
A knight is armed - when he lowers his visor, there ll hardly be a square centimetre of him showing... illustration from Barbazans Fabliaux et Contes (1808) Date: 15th century

French Naval Gun
Manning a 24 centimetre gun aboard a French warship

ANGSTROM (1814 - 1874)
ANDERS JOHAN ANGSTROM Swedish astronomer & physicist, gave his name to a unit of length one hundred millionth of a centimetre

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