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Magasin Demoiselles 1847
Grey dress: corsage a caraco made to resemble a jacket & skirt. Blue dress trimmed with black rosettes: pointed waist, skirt pinned up to reveal an underskirt. Date: 1847

TESTING THE CONSTRUCTION
Troops from the nearby Knightsbridge barracks are made to run in step, to test the strength of the flooring in the Exhibition. Date: 1851

2 MEN BOXING 1788
Boxing made easy, or Humphreys giving a lesson Date: 1788

FALL / SALUKI / 1933
CHAMPION ASWAN OF RURITANIA Owned by Miss Doxford. Champion grandson of Kelb and made up in 1930. Date: 1933

GRANDFATHER CLOCKS SOLD
Mr Robb, an antique dealer, exporting grandfather clocks to Holland, including one his grandfather made over 100 years before. Date: 19 February 1964

HAT SHOP DEBACLE
The female attire includes a fox fur stole, over-coat, court shoes & a dress with puffed sleeves made of a heavy (?knitted) fabric. The men wear single- breasted suits & spats. Date: 1930s

Basketwoman
London characters: a BASKET WOMAN takes the baskets she has made from door to door. Date: circa 1870

Bloomerism 1852
Cruikshanks Exhibition of Bloomers in Hyde Park - a satire on the fashion which Amelia Bloomer made famous Date: 1852

GERMAN PEASANTS 1512
Durer made this etching shortly before the Reformation brought civil strife to Germany, making the peasants lot even harsher than before Date: 1512

WEAVING IN SANDWICH SHOP
Sandwich woven fabric being made in the weaving shop of Josper Peanson and Staff, Sandwich, Kent. Date: circa 1930

ADVERT / GRAPE NUTS 1913
Grape Nuts - made of wheat and barley, good for children Date: 1913

Matchbox maker in London
A good days work A London matchbox maker surveys the pile of matchboxes she has just made. Date: 1890

SHOE SHOP INTERIOR
The interior of a shoe shop, with shoes made by hand. A boy has his feet measured while his mother looks on. Date: circa 1895

3 GIRLS ON SWINGS C19
Three girls take turns on a makeshift swing made from a length of rope fastened to a railing. A little child, whose toy horse has broken, sobs. Date: late 19th century

KIDS PULLING ORANGE BOX
A boy and his sister wheel their younger siblings about the streets in a wheelbarrow-like contraption they have made from an orange box and some pram wheels. Date: late 19th century

SERVANTS CLEANING
Two servants find that their job of polishing furniture is made cleaner, faster and more economical thanks to BRILLANT FOREZIEN Date: circa 1900

NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE
The worlds greatest sewing machine is the New Home made by Gonyea and Alba of Rutland, Vermont, enabling repairs to be carried out in situ Date: circa 1905

CHEST REFRIGERATORS / 1900
London-made chest refrigerators Date: 1900

ARCTIC ICE SAFE / 1900
The London-made Arctic ice safe Date: 1900

HEINRICH II / HRE / MEZZOTIN
EMPEROR HEINRICH II Despite using the Church for political ends, he was made a Saint by the Pope in thanks for donations Date: 973 - 1024

LOUIS I MADE CAPTIVE
Louis I (le Pieux) remarries and wishes to give his new son part of his heritage; this infuriates his already dissatisfied sons, who arrest and try to depose him Date: 833

WEAVING WOOL, WALES
Using the loom in a small Welsh cloth mill, serving local sheep-farmers who provide the wool from which the cloth is made Date: 1873

CLASSICAL MYTH / CHIMERA
A monster made up from parts of different creatures

Admiring Snowman
Six children admire the snowman theyve made Date: circa 1880

Fragment of the Lieder von Gudrun
A fragment of the Lieder von Gudrun (Songs of Gudrun or Kudrun), a medieval German epic tale, made for the Emperor Maximilian I. Date: circa 1570

Wax figures in the Abbey
The effigies - life-sized figures made of wax and wood, and lavishly dressed in robes and jewels - were often carried during funeral processions

Waithmans shop
Robert Waithman (1764-1833) was a master draper and British politician. He opened a drapers shop of his own by Ludgate Circus, from which he made a considerable fortune

St Pauls choir
A new choir was added around the 14th century, much enlarged and built in the latest modern Gothic style. The new choir was double the size of the one it replaced which made the cathedral some 585

Mrs Salmons waxworks
Equivalent to todays Madame Tussauds. Owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Salmon. She made and sold toys had modelling skills and taught wax portraiture In addition

Temple Bar & Devil Tavern
The Devil Tavern Devil and St Dunstan or The Devil and the Saint. The taverns origins date back to at least 16th century. Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson made it home to the literary dining club

Vickers Viscount 630, G-AHRF 1st prototype
The first prototype Vickers Viscount 630, G-AHRF, seen here on the grass airfield at Wisley. A British medium-range turboprop airliner

Made in England, Kings Theatre, Southsea, a Harry Day production. circa 1910s

ALBERT AS SPORTSMAN 1845
" SPORT!" or " A BATTUE MADE EASY" Prince Albert depicted as the phoney sportsman hunting from his armchair. Date: 1819-1861

Boeing Airplane Company engineers Gary Graham, left, an?
Boeing Airplane Company engineers Gary Graham, left, and Peter Downey examined segments of a model of a manned orbital research station which Boeing made public for the first time on 3 September

Balloon Venus at The Hendre, the Rolls family home near?
Balloon Venus at The Hendre, the Rolls family home near Monmouth. Venus was made by the Short Bros for a syndicate composed of Rolls, Warwick, Wright and Moore-Brabazon

Reconstruction of Fokker?s first aircraft, the Spider, ?
Reconstruction of Fokker?s first aircraft, the Spider, made for the 1939 Brussels Aero Show, alongside a Fokker TVIII torpedo bomber and reconnaissance floatplane

Alligator Joe watching young Alligators hatch from their egg - according to sender of this card he made a living out of raising alligators and crocodiles in Miami. Date: 1907

Pattern 1908, Cavalry Trooper?s sword, 1915 (c). Blade marked with arrow over EFD, crown over 7I RE, crown over 76E and crown over 71 RE? 15, and sold out mark. Made by Royal Small Arms Factory

?Morning star? trench club, World War One, 1915 (c); wooden head made from a polo ball (?) with bullet spikes, ash handle and a leather strap secured with twine

No 4 Mk II bayonet, from World War Two. Made by Stevens-Savage, USA. Socket stamped, No. 4, plunger stamped, Mk II, over a stylised, s. Date: 1939

Advert for Carter wounded or invalid chairs 1896
For holding a book or writing at a desk in any position over an easy chair, bed or sofa obviating fatigue and stooping. In valuable to invalids and students. 1896

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a crane made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label for Parrot Safety Matches made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Mother Hubbard nursery rhyme
The dame made a curtsey ?. Date: circa 1770

Albion Printing Press
An Albion press by Hopkinson and Cope of Finsbury, London. A very well-made and popular press, still in use amongst artists and printers today. Date: 1851

The Reckoning
THE RECKONING. Pan German: Monstrous, I call it. Why, its fully a quarter of what WE would have made THEM pay if WE D won. Supposed German reaction to war reparations after the First World War

Pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry Troopers sword, 1814 (c); blade is stamped with the makers name, I Gill; the original hatchet blade made this Pattern useless for thrusting

The nursery rhyme, What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, and puppy-dogs tails; what are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and all thats nice. Date: c. 1930

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