Container Collection (page 4)

Droste Drinking Chocolate Tin - Haarlem, The Netherlands
Droste Drinking Chocolate Tin - manufactured at Haarlem, The Netherlands. Date: circa 1930s

Still Life with a Gilt Cup, 1635, by Willem Claesz Heda (159
Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680). Dutch painter. Still Life with a Gilt Cup, 1635. Detail. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Different types of roman amphorae. 2nd century BC-3rd centur
Different types of amphorae. From left to right: wine amphora, 1st century AD, from Rome; amphora for fish, 1st century AD, from Spain; wine amphora, 2nd-1st centuries BC

Souvenir of Alum Bay
A glass container, housing sands of different colours from Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, and with a sand painting depicting rocks. A splendid example of Victorian kitsch. Date: 19th century

John Dalton, English chemist and physicist
John Dalton (1766-1844), English chemist, meteorologist and physicist, formulator of Daltons Law of Partial Pressures concerning gases in water

Aerial view of Fedala (Mohammedia), Morocco
Aerial view of Fedala (Fedhala, now Mohammedia), Morocco, centre of the Moroccan oil industry, showing Vacuum and Shell bonding warehouses and petroleum storage tanks. Date: circa 1930

Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover - Machine Man of Ardathia
Cover design, Amazing Stories. Machine Man of Ardathia (Francis Flagg) -- 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays. Date: 1927

Old meat works, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Curious plant in an old meat works, for converting old mutton into spring lamb to meet the seasons demands, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Christmas arrangement of candles, flowers and holly
Christmas arrangement of two red candles, white flowers, red ribbon, holly and mistletoe on a circular log

Christmas card in the shape of two decanters of sherry and port wine. Date: circa 1890s

Enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas
The enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with the planet in the form of a tabernacle

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