Curved Collection (page 7)

Curved sabers formerly belonging to army officials. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)

Fulham sub-station, North End Road, London SW6
Fulham sub-station, 233 North End Road, London SW6. It was built for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade by the Metropolitan Board of Works. It closed in 1896 and was later demolished

Knokke, Belgium - The Beachfront Casino on the Albert Plage (Beach) Date: circa 1930s

Two goats and a kid

Magatama?, curved gems - kudatama, straight gems, worn by high off. Drawing shows two long sets of gems suspended from cords, worn by high government officials. Date 1878?

Brazil - Ostrich Neck palm
The Ostrich-neck Palm a local oddity on a beach in Brazil. Possibly one of the weirdest trunks of a tree one is likely to witness

Horses Tack in close-up
A fine brown horse wearing double bridle with curved chain. Date: circa 1910s

Ripon Hornblower
The Ripon Hornblower, with his fantastic curved horn and distinctive tricorn hat. This tradition originates with the wakeman of Ripon

A Delhi, Turkish Light Infantry
A Dehli - Turkish light cavalry. A cavalry trooper wearing a tall hat with a lance in his hand, a musket slung over his back and a curved sword at his side. He is mounted on a brown horse. 1803

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - glacial cave
Awe-inspiring curved cavern within an iceberg, found by the Scott polar expedition shortly after the arrival of the Terra Nova at Antarctica

Mameluke soldier
A Mamaluke Soldier. A mameluke wearing a red turban and carrying a curved sword with pistols and knives tucked into his waistband. 1803

Municipal bench, Nantlle Valley, North Wales
Close-up view of a municipal bench with a decorative iron dragon support, in the Nantlle Valley, North Wales. A pile of slate waste indicates that the bench is not far from a closed-down slate quarry

Woman posing with broken windows
A young woman posing inside the curved bay of a house with broken and missing windows

Two richly adorned Georgian Jews walk to the synagogue in Tbilisi, Georgia

Hyderabad, India - arms sellers

Admiralty Islands - decorated gourds
Decorated gourds from the Admiralty Islands, New Guinea. Pen & Ink with watercolour wash drawings by Raymond Sheppard

An Ibex Ram
Pastel drawing of a fine Ibex Ram by Raymond Sheppard

Man at work in Kashgar, western China
A man at work in the open air in Kashgar, western China. He is hammering a wooden contraption with rope attached, perhaps a primitive agricultural implement

Turkish boy standing with a traditional rifle
Young Turkish boy standing for a portrait photograph with a traditional rifle. He also wears a loose pouch and carries a long curved knife

Soldier from Southern Algeria, wearing a wide-brimmed sombrero-style hat and an open wool jelaba

America. The Chinese in San Francisco. Fishing boats by moon
Chinese boats fishing off the Bay of San Francisco, with their distinctive curved shaped sails

Ann Michelle Hat Design, 1955
Illustration showing a vivid green pedal straw hat, which framed the face with its curved brim, 1955

Bending the Plates for the Cylinders of the Rotary Printing-

Curved window, Wales
The elegant curved front window of a very narrow house at the end of two diverging streets in Wales. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Waiting at York
Passengers wait for their train on the majestically curved platform of York station

Bathing and washing in Ancient Rome -- a family using strigiles in a bath house. The strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt

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