Hook Collection (page 2)

18th century surgical equipment
Bone saw 1, pincers 2, 3, scissors 4, lead mallet 5 and hook for childbirth 6. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderots Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779

W Heath Robinson - The Lullaby Bed, to save getting out of bed to rock baby when he is troublesome at night

The Braydon Oak - Savernake Forest, Wiltshire - in the centre of the North Wessex Downs Date: 1907

Port of Funchal Medallion presented to QE2
CUNARD LINE: Port of Funchal Medallion presented to the QE2 from the Port Authority of Madeira mounted on an oak presentation plaque. 7ins

Modernist House At Hook Green, Meopham, Kent
A photograph of a modernist house located at Hook Green, Meopham, Kent, designed in 1936 by architect Marjorie Tall, with local regency tendencies taken into consideration. Date: circa 1937

Beauty Of The Night
This illustration portrays a young woman wearing a highly fashionable dress, speaking with an older gentleman on a garden terrace. Date: circa 1901

The Mother Fish
This illustration shows a mother fish teaching her children about the worm bait on a hook, accompanied with a caption translated from French, The worm, my children, is generally good only so far

La Coupe Au Roi De Thule
A comical illustration showing a scene in which a king sits in a barber's chair holding his sceptre in one hand, the hairdresser is styling what little hair he has left

Archaeological dig at Glastonbury
Archaeological finds for a dig in Glastonbury summerset. Seen are the Timber Foundation and Palisading at the Glastonbury Lake Village, a ladder found, a reaping-hook and some weaving combs

Dentist's equipment, dental instruments Date: 1920

Advert, Wheeler & Wilson's No. 6 Sewing Machine
Advert, Wheeler & Wilson's new rotary-hook lock-stitch No. 6 Sewing Machine, price £9. Date: 1875

Three people in a tailors workshop. Date: circa 1960s

BOOK OF THE DEAD/20
Osiris with the sceptre, flail and hook, and Isis within a shrine

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Greetings card design - Lending a hand. A little girl standing on a fold-out step to hang up the sprig of Christmas holly, whilst her pet black scottie dog stands attentively offering assistance

Comic postcard, Fishing at the seaside - I shall soon have to take my hook from here Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two children at the seaside in a boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl fishing at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Fish avoids worm and hook Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy clinging to post on the beach. I don t want to leave. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl clinging to rock on the beach. I don t want to leave. Date: 20th century

Foot-shaped comic postcard, mother and five daughters
A mother (the life and sole of the family) and her five little toe daughters - a brilliant Edwardian comic postcard, open to multiple interpretations! Date: 1907

Photograph of North Star PH, Hook, Surrey. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1929

Photograph of Cricketers PH, Hook, Surrey. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1933

Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807

The Porta all Arco, Etruscan door in the walls of Volterra, Tuscany. Decorated with three heads of Jupiter, Castor and Pollux (or Tinia, Uni and Menrva in Etruscan mythology)

Oak hook-tip and barred hook-tip
Oak hook-tip, Drepana binaria 1-3, and barred hook-tip, Drepana cultraria 4-7. Phalaena Bombyx hamula, sicula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph

Maple prominent and heart moth
Maple prominent, Ptilodon cucullina 1 and heart moth, Dicycla oo 2-5. Phalaena Bombyx cuculla. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die

Scarce hook-tip and pebble hook-tip
Scarce hook-tip, Sabra harpagula 1, 2, and pebble hook-tip, Drepana falcataria 3-6. Phalaena Bombyx harpagula, falcula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann

Light emerald and scalloped hook-tip
Light emerald, Campaea margaritaria 1, 2, scalloped hook-tip, Falcaria lacertinaria 3-6. Bombyx falcatae, sesquistiataria, lacertula

Tiger beetles, varied carpet beetle, etc
Tiger beetles, Cicindela sinuata 1, Cicindela campestris 2, Cicindela sexguttata 3, Nitidula sanguinolenta 4, varied carpet beetle, Telephore flavipede 5, Anthrenus verbasci 6

Model M or H Pole Trailers and accessories -- when the entire load is to be carried on the trailer. Designed by American Telephone & Telegraph Companys engineers. Date: early 1920s

Beluga sturgeon, Huso huso, and fishing methods with hook and line. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804

Alver, nase, Prussian carp, and fishing
Alver, Alburnus alburnus 179, nase, Chondrostoma nasus 181, Prussian carp, Carassius gibelio 182, and fishermen enjoying fishing on the Seine at Paris with rod, line, hook and nets

Tuna fishing method and horse mackerel
Fishermen in boats driving tuna to the shore with nets for others to catch fish with hooks 52, and horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus 53

Men playing fossette (golf) and croce (hockey)
Medieval men playing ball games in a park. In the foreground, men try to throw a ball (esteuf) into a hole in the ground in the game of fossette (ancient golf)

Surgical chairs and instruments for a bladder
Surgical chairs with patients held in place for a bladder stone operation through the groin, Plate 12. Surgical instruments including dilators 1-3, curette 6 and hook curette 7, Plate 11

Rope maker twisting rope yarns together on a rope walk while an apprentice turns a wheel to revolve the hook. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

Roanoid bakelite curtain rings, flange ends and tassel hook
Roanoid Bakelite button curtain rings in five sizes (in dark red), two flange ends for a curtain rod, and a tassel hook (in marbled brown). Date: 1930s

Roanoid bakelite watch pad and frame in marbled cream. Date: 1930s

Roanoid bakelite hat and coat hook in dark red. Date: 1930s

Roanoid bakelite wardrobe hooks in marbled brown. Date: 1930s

The Mirage of Life - Theodore Hook playing the piano
Illustration of writer and wit, Theodore Hook, playing the piano to an admiring audience. From the Mirage of Life with illustration by John Tenniel. 1867

Horton Epileptic Colony / St Ebbas Hospital, Epsom
A view of the Horton Epileptic Colony, opened in 1903 on Hook Road, Epsom. In 1918 it became the Ewell War Hospital, then was renamed St Ebbas Hospital in 1938. Date: 1903

Cries of Paris - well cleaner

Cartoon, Fisherman catching a ladys bonnet. 19th century

Christmas and New Year card in the shape of a basket, open to reveal a cryptic message inside in the form of a pictogram. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

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