Copper Collection (#2)

Common blue, Provence hairstreak, purple-edged
Common acacia blue, Polyommatus icarus 1, Provence hairstreak, Tomares ballus 2, purple-edged copper, Lycaena hippothoe 3 and scarce copper, Lycaena virgaureae 4

Varieties of copper, coppernickel and malachite ores

Copper sunbird, Cinnyris cupreus (Fire-backed sunbird, Cinnyris erythronotus)

Polyommatus butterflies
Black hairstreak butterfly, Satyrium pruni 1, common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus 2, purple-edged copper, Lycaena hippothoe 3, and common guava blue, Virachola isocrates 4

Ancient Chinese vases
Ancient Chinese copper and bronze vases and bells. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843

Ancient Peruvian utensils and tools, including Inca tomb A, B, pendant in gold and silver C, copper axe heads D, mirrors called Inca-rirpo E, F, G, stone axe H, pins I, L, M, clip K

Exotic butterflies
Hooked copper, Phasis thero 1, metalmark butterfly, Riodina lysippus 2, large faun, Faunis eumeus 3, and common nawab, Charaxes athamas 4, ventral and dorsal views

Man of the Yellowknives nation and of the Sekani nation
Man of the Yellowknives, Copper or T atsaot ine nation and man of the Sekani nation (Cluche) with rabbit-ear hat sketched in New York. Copper Indian and Cluche (Rocky Mountain) Indian

MIrror seller, Qing Dynasty. The mirrors are made of highly polished copper

Soapmaker cutting hardened soap with a copper
Soap boiler making soap in a factory. A man stirs a vat of boiling fat and ley, while another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire in wooden frames

Austrian copper rose, Rosa foetida (Rose jaune capucine, Rosa lutea var. bicolor). Handcoloured lithograph by Lecouturier after a botanical illustration by Mlle. F

Austrian copper rose and white virgin rose
Austrian copper rose, Rosa punicea, and white virgin rose, Rosa truncata virginalis

Precious metals including gold, silver, copper and tin
Precious metals including gold 1, silver 2, 3, copper dendrite 4, blue copper 5, malachite copper 6, garnet tin 7, tin crystal 8, and tin sand 9

French medieval silver (argent) and copper (billon) coins with coat of arms: gros tournois 1, 2, blancs 3, 4, liard 5, and obole 6

Statue of Apollo with halo, cithara (lyre) and plectrum
Statue of Apollo in copper. He is depicted with halo, cithara (lyre) and plectrum. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789

View inside a copper and lead factory, London
View inside the Pontifex and Wood copper and lead factory, Shoe Lane, London. Date: 1842

Electric Light Fixtures catalogue, Bowl Fittings. Date: 1922

Electric Light Fixtures catalogue, Electroliers, with a range of shades. Date: 1922

Electric Light Fixtures catalogue, Brackets
Electrical Fixtures catalogue, Brackets in copper, brass, etc, with a range of glass shades. Date: 1922

Cries of Paris - coppersmith

Copper Queen Hotel, Bisbee, Arizona, USA
The Copper Queen Hotel in the mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, USA. circa 1908

Pictures on the wireless! New wonder for B. B. C audience 1928
Diagram showing the new way in which the B.B.C will broadcast photographs and drawings. 1928

Copper mines and youth hostel, Coniston, Cumbria. Date: 20th century

Procession of the Catholic Ligue through the streets of Paris - passing the Rue du Marche Palud Date: 1590

Woman selling newspapers announcing Peace Terms, WW1
Original copper plate (cancelled) by Robert Austin, Woman selling newspapers announcing Peace Terms, towards the end of the First World War. circa 1918

Copper plate, The horse of Ostend, by Robert Austin
Original copper plate (cancelled), The horse of Ostend, by Robert Austin. 1921

Copper plate, Widow of a hero, by Robert Austin
Original copper plate (cancelled), Widow of a hero, by Robert Austin. circa early 1920s

Postcard explaining the currency of Portugal, with equivalent values for other countries. Date: circa 1900

Improved cast-iron portable copper
Mounted on wheels, a man pouring water into a cast-iron portable boiler. Date: late 19th century

Postcard explaining the currency of Japan, with equivalent values for other countries. circa 1900

Curtis British Entomology Plate 12
Lepidoptera: Lycaena dispar (Large Copper) [Plant: Phragmites australis (Arundo phragmitis, Common Reed)] Date: 1824-39

Copper Pot Date: 1880

The Public Library. Springfield. Date: 1920

WWI biplane bullet fuselage with copper propeller
First World War biplane bullet fuselage with copper propeller.. Trench Art

WWI Trench Art triplane
First World War Trench Art tri-plane. The fuselage is made from a copper bullet. Trench Art

A patriotic cast iron frying pan with German soldier
A patriotic cast iron frying pan with a German soldier shaking the hand of a German woman in relief on the handle. Embossed around the diameter with Der Deutschen frau opfersinn

A composite matchbox-ashtray made from a bullet cartridge and mounted on an 18 pounder shell case. Engraved Messines, June 7th 1917 - France and Belgium with an image in copper of a British tank

Rifle round ornament Souvenir from Vimy Ridge
Ornament made from rifle rounds engraved Souvenir from Vimy Ridge, France, embellished with an Edward VII copper halfpenny. Trench Art

British coin, George VI halfpenny
British coin, a George VI halfpenny for 1952, with a ship on the reverse. Date: 1952

FALL / CHOW CHOW / 1975
CHINGNU COPPER PLATE Owned by Jones. Date: 1975

Street Arab
London characters : even the barefoot street Arab must work for his living, doing cartwheels and handstands in hopes that some kind gent will chuck him a copper. Date: circa 1870

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-200 Twin Otter CF-YTH
de Havilland Canada DHC-6-200 Twin Otter CF-Yth (msn 221), of Canadian Nickel Air Service, Copper Cliff ON. Date: circa 1971

Sudanese kettle drum, 1898 (c). Reputedly taken form Dervish forces at the Battle of Omdurman, 2nd Sudan War (1896-1899) 1898

Homo sapiens Clitoris - Homo sapiens. Clitoris. Copper engraving based on drawing by Franz Bauer. E. Home, Lectures on comparative anatomy. Supplement 2, London, 1828, t. 24 (upper part)

Hardware Shop, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920s

Anthropomorphic stone stelae. Yamna Culture. 36th-23rd centu
Anthropomorphic stone stelae or statue menhirs, located in Yamna secondary graves. Yamna Culture. Late Copper Age - Early Bronze Age. 36th-23rd centuries BC

Quadriga by Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). Brandenbur
Quadriga, chariot drawn by four horses driven by Victoria Goddess. Copy by the original of 1793, by Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). Brandenburg Gate. Berlin. Germany

Rural Italian Woman and Child - Traditional costume
Rural Woman and Child from Abruzzo, Southern Italy - Traditional costume with distinctive copper bowls. Date: circa 1907

MET DE BLES, Henri. Copper mines
MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

80 mm German engraved artillery shell case - Bezalel School
77 mm. German artillery shell case engraved at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem

Sheffield Workhouse Token, 1815
A one penny workhouse token of the Sheffield Workhouse, Yorkshire, from 1815

Greetings card in the shape of a bed warmer. Date: circa 1890s

A Copper cops a Muddler in the mud - Salisbury Plain Date: 1916

Coal scuttle
Copper and brass urn-shaped coal scuttle on three legs, possibly manufactured by Henry Loveridge & Co. Wolverhampton, c.1900-1910. Date: c.1900-1910

Cutter Cove, Brunswick Peninsula, Chile, South America
Bay of Cutter Cove, a copper mining area on the Brunswick Peninsula south of Punta Arenas, Chile, South America. With two men working from a boat, and a narrow gauge railway track. Date: circa 1910

A selection of the Princes gifts, 1876
A selection of the presents made to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) during his Royal Progress through India in 1875-6. They have been arranged in the India Museum, South Kensington

Advert for Dobble, Forbes & Co stoves and ranges 1888
A selection of three matchless combustion heating stoves, kitchen ranges with self-setting and fuel saving and a new portable cast-iron washing copper

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1888
Policeman holding a touch up at a notice on a fence saying Arrest all dirt and cleanse everthing by using Hudsons Soap REWARD!! purity, health and satisfaction by its regular saily use. 1888

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1889
Policeman holding a touch up at a notice on a fence saying Arrest all dirt and cleanse everthing by using Hudsons Soap REWARD!! purity, health and satisfaction by its regular saily use. 1889

Innsbruck, Austria - the Goldenes Dachl (Golden Roof)
The Goldenes Dachl (Golden Roof) is a structure in the Old Town of Innsbruck, Austria

Scroll of Esther by Shalom Italia (1619-1655). Israel Museum
Scroll of Esther, Amsterdam 1640, by the scribe and artist Shalom Italia (1619-1655). Handwritten in ink on parchment. Israel Museum. Jerusalem

Mesopotamian art. Bust of a ruler, dated between 2300 and 2000 BC. Early Bronze Age. It comes from Iran (?). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Electricity / Daniell Cell
DANIELL CELL Invented in 1836 by John- Frederic Daniell, English chemist and physicist, using zinc and copper

Advert for Spiers & Ponds stores, oil lamps 1898
Selection of Victorian oil lamps available from Spiers & Pond s, hardware department. 1898

Primitive house in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
Primitive house (actually a small shed) in Cananea, a copper mining town in Sonora, Mexico. Date: circa 1905

The Burra Burra copper-mine in South Australia, showing the surface operations. 1848

Man of fashion in Venice and other Italian towns, 16th century

Cartoon, A dry telegram, WW1
Cartoon, A dry telegram, showing a chef (a spy) writing to his boss, that after eight days the boxes of rubbish have contained nothing of diplomatic interest. Date: 1915

Breastplate in the form of a lion-headed eagle, from Tell Hariri (ancient Mari) c.2500 BC (gold, copper, bitumen & lapis lazuli). Sumerian art. Decorative Arts. SYRIA. Damascus. National Museum

WWI Trench Art biplane
First World War Trench Art bi-plane. The fuselage is made from a copper bullet. Trench Art

A patriotic cast iron frying pan with German soldier
A patriotic cast iron frying pan with a German soldier shaking the hand of a German woman in relief on the handle. Embossed around the diameter with Der Deutschen frau opfersinn

83 mm German engraved artillery shell case - Bezalel School
77 mm. German artillery shell case engraved at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem

WWI brass snuffbox modelled as British Army service cap
A First World War brass snuffbox modelled as a British Army service cap with a copper band. Trench Art

Lighter constructed from a large brass nut with two French copper coins on either side. One is dated 1916. Trench Art

Tilt Cove Copper Mine, Newfoundland, Canada. Date: 1902

Manor or country house garden, with workers. Copper-plate illustration from Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Frontispiece. Date: 1739

Niccolite mineral with metallic lustre, comprises of nickel arsenide. It is also known as coppernickel and nickeline. This specimen is from the Natural History Museum, London

RIBERA, Jos頨1588-1652). Ecce homo. Painting
RIBERA, Jos頨 1588-1652). Ecce homo. Painting on copper. Attributed. Baroque art. Oil. SPAIN. Cᤩ z. Museo de Cᤩ z

Copper mask (3rd c. AD). Moche or Mochica Art. PERU. Sipᮮ Royal Tombs of Sipᮠ Museum

Halesowen Workhouse Token
A one penny workhouse token issued in 1813 at Halesowen, then placed in Shropshire

Silver and copper works, Chile, South America

East India Company coin, Madras Presidency
An East India company coin dated 1803, during the Madras Presidency. Bearing the coat of arms of two lions with flags and a shield, surmounted by a helmet, and the motto below: Ausp. Regis & Senat

A Jersey Kitchen
A Jersey cottage kitchen, complete with copper pans on the fireplace range, a well-stocker dresser and curtained mantlepiece

Diesel Fuel Injection Pump Testing
A technician tests a distributor fuel injection pump on a Hartridge machine at the CAV Engineering Centre in Acton, London

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