Handles Collection (page 4)

Toilet Services, English Stoneware, Plate 45, showing plain and patterned washing bowls and jugs. Date: circa 1880s

Tea Pots, Coffee Pots and Jugs, Plate 37, showing plain and patterned teapots, coffee pots and jugs. Date: circa 1880s

China Tea and Breakfast Services, Plate 33
China Tea and Breakfast Services, Tea and Coffee Sets with Tray, Plate 33, showing blue and white patterned plates, cups and saucers, covered dishes, teapots, coffee pots, sugar bowls and milk jugs

Seletion of sterling silver, electro-plate knives 1929
A seletion of sterling silver and electro-plated knives with ivory or mother-of-pearl handles. Products available from the Harrods catalogue cutlery department. Date: 1929

Sunshades for 1909
A selection of the seasons sunshades: ornamented with a profusion of lace, ruched braid, tassels & floral prints. Some handles are shaped like birds heads. Date: 1909

Dinner Services, Best English Stoneware, Plate 3, showing patterned plates and covered serving dishes. Date: circa 1880s

Dinner Services, Best English Stoneware, Plate 2, showing blue and white patterned plates, serving dishes and a tureen. Date: circa 1880s

China Dinner Services, Plate 11
Various china dinner services, Plate 11, showing patterned plates, tureens, covered serving dishes and bowls. Date: circa 1880s

Circular Bookcase
A handsome 7 tier circular moveable bookcase with lions head handles and claw feet. The whole magnificent structure surmounted by an antique style lamp Date: 1810

Selection of black Surah parasols 1886
A selection of fashionable black Surah parasols with carved handles, tassels, flounces, fringing, lace and ribbons 1886

Mother baby and Mothers sister - Eastbourne, East Sussex. Date: late 1930s

View from Manchester bookshop
The circular door handles of a Manchester bookshop echo the wheels of a bicycle out in the street, leaning against a parking meter near the old Alitalia airline office

Foyer Door Handles with Doverite grips in a variety of colours - particularly suitable for cinemas and theatres ! Date: circa 1920s

Barman and waiter working in a bar. A sign invites customers to Join Our Christmas Club. Date: circa 1930s

WW1 - Lady aviator air-gunner demonstration in aeroplane
WW1 - An illustration of Mrs A. S. Hitchcock who was part of the Italian Army for expert skill in aeroplane operation. She is seen here giving a demonstration within Italian lines for a number of

LFB dual purpose appliance (back view) with crew
London Fire Brigade dual purpose appliance (back view), with crew

LFB dual purpose appliance (back view)
London Fire Brigade dual purpose appliance (back view)

Fire prevention officer checking skylight release
A fire prevention officer checking the quick release mechanism for opening a stage skylight

Model of an old manual fire engine
Model of an old manual Shand Mason fire engine, presented by F Burkitt in February 1937

Manual pump in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
A two-man manual pump in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Scammell 45 gallon water pump, WW2
A Scammell 45 gallon water pump in position on a trolley during the Second World War (17 September 1942). Date: 1942

German 77mm shell case vase with looped handles
A 1915 German 77 mm. shell case vase with looped handles, engraved with the badge of the Army Service Corps. and the place names of Wytschaete and Messines, Belgium, dated 1917. Trench Art

Tobacco jar made from a 4 5 Howitzer shell case
Tobacco jar made from a 4.5 Howitzer shell case, dated 1915, with a matching lid. The base has copper handles and a copper inscription which reads Tobacco decorated with copper oak leaves

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1938
Going away at Christmas? - Giving away at Christmas ? Going away? Then go with efficient suitcase - a Revelation!... You can pack it quickly, easily, and as full as you like

Corner of a large tiled kitchen, showing a gas cooker (right) and a large stove with doors for the coal (in a scuttle at the side), and a flue. There are pots and pans on a tall stand (left)

Men with crates of fish on quayside
Men working on a quayside with crates of fish labelled William Carnie and David Dow, Newhaven

Boring Ivory Tusks
" From jungle to dressing table." Boring ivory elephant tusks, for making into brush handles, billiard balls and other beautiful objects for ladies dressing tables. Date: February 1933

Old Fashioned Windows
Lovely old windows, with curly metal handles. Date: 1930s

Japan - Tea Industry - Tea Grinding. Date: circa 1908

Itinerant Russian Broom seller, with his wide selection of brushes, brooms, pipe cleaners and sundry additional cleaning paraphernalia of all shapes and sizes! Date: circa 1902

Bell Harp - Invention attributed to John Simcock a soldier in a regiment of Dragoons and dates from around 1700. The harp is sounded by using a plectrum on either thumb

Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a basket
Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a wickerwork basket. Date: circa 1890s

Jar with four handles (17th c. ). Baroque art
Jar with four handles (17th c.). Baroque art. Ceramics. SPAIN. Barcelona. Barcelona Ceramics Museum. Proc: SPAIN. Manises

Vessels from Knossos
Vessels from M.M. III at Knossos, showing preservation of original polychrome finish

DAEDALUS
Daedalus in flight, with sensibly large wings, and feathers on his body to provide additional lift; note too the practical handles

Cutting Ivory Handles with a Circular Saw at a Sheffield Ste
A man cuts ivory knife handles using a belt-driven circular saw at a Sheffield steel works. Two large tusks are at his side. Date: 1844

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1937
Advertisement for Revelation leather suitcases with chromium-plated locks and fittings. 1937

Making Brushes 1930S
These women are fixing bristles into ivory hairbrush handles. Date: February 1933

Three large woven beach chairs at the seaside
Three large basketwork beach chairs on a beach in Belgium, with two people sitting inside them. They are designed to give maximum shade from the hot sun

Filling Oil Cans - Hackney Wick
A female employee fills BP Oil Cans at a plant in Hackney Wick, London

Titanic copperware
A copper pot from the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912. It bears the inscription White Star Line Restaurant

Izmir, Turkey - Travelling ironmonger
A travelling itinerant ironmonger with his young assistant and some of his wares at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Cloth production - Factory Workers
Women factory workers manning a sheet-weaving machine at Patons & Baldwins Factory in Darlington. The company, principally produced knitting wool

Baby in Incubator
A nurse carefully handles a premature baby, holding its head in the incubator

Door Handles Etc
Door handles, brackets and other items of hardware

Weighing Ivory Tusks
From jungle to dressing table. Weighing elephant tusks for making into brush handles, billiard balls and other beautiful objects for ladies dressing tables

C17 Clepsydra
A sophisticated form of CLEPSYDRA, in which the emptying of liquid causes a drum to rotate, which in turn causing the handles to move round the clock face

Hotel Page and Luggage
The page-boy at the Savoy Hotel, London, handles guests luggage

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