Cutter Collection

Leaf-cutter ants carrying pieces of leaf
Leaf-cutter ants transporting neatly extracted pieces of leaf. These ants derive from the rainforests of Central and South America

Coastguards and civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey
Commemorative postcard, Heroes All! Five brave coastguards and two civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, who rescued 20 members of the 2nd Walworth Boy Scouts Troop who got into difficulties

Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from Shipwr
Engraving showing Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom)

Wig Shop - Middle Temple, London
E Albins Wigmaker and Hair Cutters Shop, selling wigs to the members of the Legal Profession, based in the vicinity of the Middle Temple, London. Date: 1857

Harvesting / Mill Loader
Harvesting with an International Cutter by a Massey-Fergusson 35 tractor, fitted with a Mill Loader

John Brown and Co. sink British Revenue Cutter Gaspee
The Burning of the " Gaspee". HMS Gaspee a British customs schooner ran aground after being boarded by a group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown, who attacked, boarded

A selection of assorted pastry cutters

TAILORs WORKSHOP / 1890
A Tailors workshop, showing the master cutter, sleeve- presser and under-presser

Indian Grass Cutter
Grass cutter Punjab

Valkyrie Yacht, runner up Americas Cup

The River Ouse and Cutter Inn, Ely, Cambridgeshire - postcard by unknown publisher c. 1905 Date: circa 1905

Water reed cutter, East Anglia, early 1900s

Price's rotary digger and greathead shield
Front view of Price's combined rotary digger and greathead shield with six revolving arms and removal buckets Date: 1909

Ford Super Major 5000 tracked cable trench cutter
Ford Super Major 5000 tracked cable-trench cutter. Date: circa 1960

Cutter at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Lieutenant Edward Nicolls boarding a French privateer cutter, the Albion, off Monte Cristi, Santo Domingo, West Indies, 5 November 1803. Date: 1803

Regency gentleman riding a horse without a bridle
Regency gentleman riding a horse with only a string around its neck. A man is dragged off by a horse, his foot caught in a stirrup, in the background. How to Ride Without a Bridle

Gold mounted amber jewelry including cigarette tube, cigarette cutter, cigarette case and pocket knife. Chromolithograph from Edwin Streeters Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895

Gabled houses from the Interregnum (1650s) on Winchester Street, London Wall, 1804. Characters on the right pavement include Professor of Languages Count John Theodora de Verdion with umbrella

Pacu or pacupeba, Myleus pacu (Pacu of Guiana, Myletes pacu). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburgks Fishes of Guiana

Cutter. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Typical British Industries - File Cutters. 1892

Shop front, E B Clarke, Picture Framers, Kingston
Shop front, E B Clarke, Picture Framers, 29 Eden Street, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. circa 1910

Revenue Cutters capturing an American Smuggling vessel
British Revenue Cutters capturing an American Smuggling vessel. Date: circa 1770

An Indian grass cutter with ingenious grass container Date: circa 1810

Advert for W &s Summerscales & Sons household machines 1888 Advert for W & S
Double page spread of a selection of Victorian free-standing machines for household use, available in W &s Summerscales & Sons catalogue, including The Colonial mangle, chain washer and Gardner

Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, glass cutter at work 1841
Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, Holland Street, Blackfriars, London, glass cutter at work. Date: 1841

SHEPHERD, DOG, FLOCK
A shepherd and his dog sit beside their flock while he repairs a wattle fence : the machine behind them is the chaff cutter for the sheeps food. Date: 19 Century

SHEPHERD & DOG IN WINTER SHEPHERD & DOG IN WINTER
A shepherd and his dog feed their flock on a winters day - note the straw cutter used to chop up the straw Date: circa 1860

A barber squats in the street in Chandni Chouk, Old Delhi, and cuts the hair of a male customer. The barber uses a cut-thoat razor to trim beind the mans ears. Date: 1990

Diamond polishing, Jaipur, India
A man squats on the floor by the window of his Jaipur workshop and polishes diamonds with a hand powered cutting machine Date: 1987

Advert for John Gardner & Son, sausage machine 1888
Simplex, silent sausage machine and pie-meat cutter, patentees and sole makers, Smithfield Works, Bradford Street, Birminham. 1888

Ancient Gem Cutter and Apprentice - Sri Lanka
Ancient Gem Cutter with his cutting and polishing tools and (his middle-aged!) Apprentice - Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1908

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

Oberon and Titania - Silhouette by the brilliant German cutter Paul Konewka. Date: circa 1860s

Firefighter cutting through pipe after road traffic accident
A firefighter cutting through a pipe after a road traffic accident

German Childrens Theatre Costume - Der Holzhauer (The Wood Cutter). 19th century

Four boys playing on farming equipment
Four boys playing on a piece of farming equipment. circa 1937

Women and boys on a boat
Group of women and boys on board a boat, the Cutter Britannia. circa 1898

Detachable card, Air France. 20th century

Binding Braille Books
Binding Braille books for the blind. The large volumes each contain 100 pages. Date: circa 1930s

Glove cutters at work, Gloversville, New York State, USA
Glove cutters at work in Gloversville, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1913

Cartoon, Field hair trimmer, WW1
Cartoon, A field hair trimmer for cutting the hair of German soldiers. A long queue of hairy men wait their turn. Date: 1916

Cutter Face. Tees Estuary 1970s Date: 1970s

Illustration, haymaking with a horse-drawn cutter and a dog alongside. Date: 1930

Bristol Channel cutter in Tall Ships Race, Torbay, Devon
A Bristol Channel cutter taking part in the Tall Ships Race at Torbay, Devon. 1962

Traditional fishing trawler, Torbay, Devon
A traditional fishing trawler, the Pinta, in action at Torbay, Devon. Date: 20th century

Ships that pass by G. H. Davis
Ships that pass -- some notes for our readers who are spending their holidays by the sea shore. The ships are: cargo steamer, liner, coasting steamer, seagoing tug, oil carrier, racing yawl

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