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Bookbinding Tools 1875Various tools used in bookbinding, including a pair of compasses, a mallet, presses, a knife, a set square, needle and thread, and a gouge
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Spanish Baroque painter. The Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Owl and foxes carrying food on a Christmas cardAn owl and three foxes carrying a roast bird, cutlery and holly through the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Enraged Musician / HogarthTHE 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
Leather making and tannery toolsVarious tools used in tannery and leather making, including a knife, pincers and a hook
Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beefMarket Reports illustrated (Postcard series): MEAT: " English beef was in fine condition." This report on English beef (as a commodity traded on the Stock Exchange)
Various coopers toolsVarious tools used by a cooper or barrel maker, including mallets, a hammer, a hatchet and a knife
Tools used by a saddler and upholstererVarious tools used by a saddler and upholsterer, including pliers, pincers, skewers, needles and a knife
In a Butchers ShopTHE MAN OF TASTE - a butchers customer orders two ounces of Boiled Beef, Cut with a Ham y Knife to give it a Relish
LADY MACBETH & DAGGERSMacbeth, Act II, Scene ii Lady Macbeth: "give me the daggers..." Date: 1925
Stripping the bark from the barkcloth tree, Uganda. Barkcloth making is an ancient craft of the Baganda people who live in the Buganda kingdom in southern Uganda
Deep sea diver at workA deep sea diver at work, assisted by a colleague. 1965
St Bartholomew ApostleSAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE in the background you can see him being flayed alive : and in the foreground he is carrying not only his skin but the knife which removed it
Street Trade / GrinderA grinderx sharpens a knife in Whitehall, London
Monk CopyistsJohn Mielot, author of Miracles de Notre Dame using a quill and a scraping knife in a monestary library
Castration 17th CenturyA fearful patient is restrained on a low couch and castrated
Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900sVarious machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900
Wedding of Dan Everard and Dollis BrookScene at the wedding reception of Dan Everard and Dollis Brook, performers in the Pelissier Follies. The wedding took place at Finchley Parish Church, north London
The Not Forgotten Royal Tea Party, 1937Cutting the cake for wounded soldiers at Buckingham Palace: Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth attend the Not Forgotten Tea Party at the Royal Riding School at Buckingham Palace
Wartime cuisine - fish and chipsWartime rashioning during the Second World War. A plate of steak and veg is a dream, but at least there is still fish and chips to keep the spirits up and the bellies full! Date: circa early 1940s
Landlord Les Rowe carving a rog hoastA traditional Cornish Hog Roast, cooking on a spit in a wonderful old fireplace, about to be attacked by the pub Landlord Les Rowe
Inuit Seal Hunting (2 / 5)An Inuit seal hunter. He has cut a hole in the pack ice and dropped a baited line through the hole. He has placed a small square of fur on the ground to form a warm seat whilst he waits for a passing
Canada - Ojibwa Girl cleaning the catchThe Ojibwa is the largest group of Native American peoples north of Mexico. They are equally divided between the United States and Canada
Fishermen by the sea with lobster / crab potsFishermen with their pots and nets. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Britannia and CetewayoRetribution : Britannia seizes the Zulu chief Cetewayo round the neck, in a landscape dominated by the dead bodies of both British soldiers and Zulus
Saddler at Work C. 1800A saddler, in apron, works at a bench. Various tools can be seen in his workshop including a round paring knife
Noise PollutionA 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 streetA London knife grinder at work on the street
Soldiers of Linhares, Brazil, in uniform.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840
Borwicks Prize Medal Knife PowderA tin of knife polish
Cretan Military LeaderA Greek Cretan patriot
G Clemenceau / Barrere 06GEORGES CLEMENCEAU French statesman depicted as a butcher " in the exercise of his ministry"
Surgical Instruments / C18Variety of surgical instruments
Large Boy Eats Large PieA plump boy puts all his strength into eating a pie
Assassination of LincolnJohn Wilkes Booth prepares to shoot the US President Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theatre, Washington. Lincoln died of the gunshot wound on the morning of 15 April
Burying the HatchetA terrible accident during a street circus act where a knife-thrower misjudges his aim and hits his woman assistant in the head with his throwing hatchet
Cat and kitten with pudding on a cutout Christmas cardBlack cat and kitten with pudding on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Children with large pudding on a Christmas cardChildren attacking a large pudding on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Interior of French Cutlery Factory, Thiers - Knife GrindersInterior of French Cutlery Factory (Coutellerie), Thiers, France - Knife Grinders (Emouleurs). Date: circa 1920s
Comic postcard, accident with bacon slicer Date: 20th century
Tools of the Australian aboriginesTools and weapons of the Australian aborigines. Drinking vessel made of dulse leaf 1, stone knife 2, basket for shells 3, basket 4, shell necklace 5, spears 6-9, wooden sword 10, 12, shield 13
Ornaments and weapons of the Island Carib or Kalinago peopleOrnaments of the Island Carib or Kalinago people, West Indies, including necklace, headdress, earrings, and weapons, bow, arrow and knife
Garden Tools, Spades, Forks, Hoes, Shears, Rakes and Knives. 19th century
Siebe Gorman steel bladed diver's knife with bronze scabbard
Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander HendersonCartoon, Mr Louis Engel (musician and music critic) and Mr Alexander Henderson (theatre owner and director) - I ll have my bond! (A reference to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.) 1885
Egyptian statue of the goddess Isis with throne headdress, in hard black stone with yellow spots. Copperplate engraving by Giacomo Bossi after an illustration by D. A
Maori tools and weapons with elaborate carving: axe, fish knife, and box. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World
Utensils and tools of the Malagasy people of Madagascar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World