Grinder Collection

Patent double action grinder for asbestos by Heath Robinson
A patent double-action grinder for mashing asbestos fibre - a drawing done for Turners Asbestos Cement Co by William Heath Robinson, renowned for his machines and convoluted contraptions. Date: c.1925

Enraged Musician / Hogarth
THE ENRAGED MUSICIAN A ballad singer, a screeching parrot, a piper, a drummer, a barking dog, a knife grinder, fighting cats and other noises disturb his violin practice

Street Trade / Grinder
A grinderx sharpens a knife in Whitehall, London

Noise Pollution
A knife-grinder, a milkmaid, dogs, beggars, musicians, a coalman, and a dustman, a postboy with his horn and a child with her rattle - noise pollution in the 18th century

A London knife grinder on the street
A London knife grinder at work on the street

Expert grinder at Wilkinson Sword Works, WW1
Expert grinder at Wilkinson Sword Works, working on a new bayonet during the First World War. 1914-1918

Advert for Wm. Corns & Son, combination Coffee Mill 1888
Combination mill for coffee and spices. Date: 1888

Street music: organ grinder rejected, 1858
Repelling foreign invasion: paterfamilias tries the cold water cure in a case of organ grinding. Date: 1858

Advert / Cafexqui Coffee
Cafexqui Coffee - concentrated aroma, the best of coffees

French women visting the Cossack bivouac in Paris, 1814
Woman in fur-lined coat with fur muff visting the Tatar and Kalmyk Cossack bivouas in Paris after the fall of Napoleon. Cossack encampment on the Champs Elysees, 1814. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Knife grinder, Nice, France

France Nice - knife grinder pre-1900

Barrel or street organ and monkey, early 1900s

Organ Grinder with monkey, Southport

Southport Organ Grinder with monkey early 1900s

Organ grinder, street piano Date: 19th century

Wells Hill, Radstock, early 1900s

Radstock - Wells Hill early 1900s

Henry cartoon, A Hot Tip, by Carl Anderson
A Hot Tip, Henry cartoon drawn by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Knife grinder at work, Central London
Itinerant knife grinder at work on a Central London street. Date: circa 1950s

Organ Grinder
A happy organ grinder with his organ and monkey. Artist: Flora White. Date: circa 1920

Fashionable women and organ grinder on the Pont
Fashionable women in feather hats, lace ruff collars and fur-trimmed dresses. Crossing the Pont des Arts, Paris, 1816. In the background is the famous blind organ grinder and his dog under a parasol

Guy Fawkes in Effigy, Bartholomews Hospital and Smithfield Market. Children begging with an effigy of Guy Fawkes on 5 November 39, men bringing a patient on a stretcher into St

Silhouette - Scissor Sharpener, Street Vendor
Silhouette - Scissor Sharpener, Knife Grinder, Street Vendor. 20th century

An organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses

Cries of Paris - scissor sharpener

Hardy Patent Pick Co. bone grinder 1890s
The Devil, Disintegrator, bone grinder and mixer. This machine will grind to powder, granulate or shed any material, animal and vegetable, wet or dry at one operation. Date: 1890s

Advert for W. & T Avery, Duplex Coffee Mill. 1888
Patent Duplex Coffee Mill grind twice as fast. Date: 1888

A street organ & organ grinder
Two young girls dancing in a London street to the strains of the street organ. Date: 1885

Hand-Cranked Grinder Date: 1880

Grinder and Scoop Date: 1865

Street trade - knife grinder
knife grinder on the streets. Date: 1885

Organ Grinder (Anon)
An organ-grinder and his monkey. Date: circa 1880

FRENCH KNIFE GRINDER
A knife grinder in a French street, watched by children and a dog Date: circa 1920

KNIFE GRINDER / WHEATLEY
Knives, scissors and razors to grind?; a knife grinder operating in a London street. Date: 1795

HOT CHESTNUTS FOR SALE
A vendor of hot chestnuts; a smartly dressed woman and a chimney sweep boy are among his customers, while in the background an organ grinder and monkey also look for trade Date: circa 1920

Organ Grinder
London characters: the ORGAN GRINDER and his monkey come from Italy, and the songs he sings in our fog-grey streets are warm with nostalgia for their sunny homeland. Date: circa 1870

1741 / ENRAGED MUSICIAN
A violinist is disturbed by a ballad singer, a screeching parrot, a piper, a drummer, a barking dog, a knife grinder, fighting cats and other noises Date: 1741

17th century Grinder
A grinder sharpens a knife on a grindstone. Date: 17th century

Sheffield Steel manufactures 1866
Sheffield : scythe-grinders. Date: 1866

A really very bizarre silhouette postcard depicting a man with a dancing monkey, entertaining a young couple, the gentleman in a suit, the lady in the sheerest of sheer negligees

Craftsman puts finishing touches to replica suit of armour
Sparks fly as a skilled craftsman puts the finishing touches to a replica suit of armour with conquistador-style morion in his workshop in Birmingham, England Date: 1992

England. Guildford. High Street. Engraving
England. Guildford. High Street. Surrey County. 1875. Millerlove colored Engraving

Two boys sharpening knives - Medenine, Tunisia, North Africa Date: circa 1910s

Organ Grinder 1886
Schoolboys stop to admire the monkey who solicits a financial contribution to the upkeep of himself and his organ-grinding partner

Kieselguhr Industry, Toome, Grinding Bann Clay - a view of a man shovelling clay into a feed for a grinder. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Street Organ Grinder in the East End of London Date: 1905

Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. Tomb of Wa
Egyptian Art. Baking, brewing and butchery scene. From the tomb of Wadjet-hotep at Sedment. Wood. 7th-11th Dynasty. c. 2150-2050 B.C. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

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