Crucible Collection

Jeweller at his bench with leather covers. His tools include files, drills, hammer, pliers, wire drawer and crucible. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

Hot steel being poured into a cast. Date: 1877

Steel-converting furnace and mould for crucible manufacture. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Drawing the crucible 1840s
A Foundry man drawing a crucible from the ground. Date: 1840s

Crucible. Punic art. Terracotta. From Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Spain

Remains of vitreous mass, clays crucible and pearls. 13th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Tapping a Rubber Tree Date: circa 1920s

Copper Industry in Detroit, Michigan, USA Date: 1906

Indian Goldsmiths at work

Pouring Molten Metal
A metalworker wearing protective eye goggles pours molten metal in to a mould from a huge crucible container, attached to an immense hook, into a small mould. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Molten metal is poured in to a mould
Two factory workers pour molten metal into a small mould. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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