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Hotel at Bad Wildungen, Hesse, GermanyFurstl Badehotel at Bad Wildungen, a spa in Hesse, Germany. Date: circa 1910
Hotel Victoria, Baden Baden, GermanyHotel Victoria and street scene, Baden Baden, Germany
People at Golf Club, Baden Baden, GermanyPeople relaxing at the Golf Club, Baden Baden, Germany. Date: circa 1908
Wooden construction at Bad Nauheim, Hesse, Germany. Date: circa 1902
Aerial view of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, GermanyAerial view of Bad Reichenhall, a spa town in Upper Bavaria, Germany
Mineral spa in Budapest, Hungary
Street scene in Dole, Jura, FranceScene in the Rue des Arenes, Dole, Jura, eastern France, with shops and pedestrians. Date: early 20th century
Effects of taking the watersThe rather adverse effect of taking the waters at Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg !!! Date: circa 1910s
Slovakia - Spa (Kupele) Sliac - thermal bathsSpa (Kupele) Sliac are thermal baths located in Sliac in the Zvolen valley, on both sides of the river Hron. Sliac is surrounded by the Slovak Ore Mountains, Kremnicke and Stiavnicke hills. Date: 1938
WW1 - Serbian girl gets water for the Allied TroopsWW1 era - Serbian Woman Water Carrier providing fresh drinking water to Allied Troops Date: circa 1917
Taking the Waters - I hope no ones looking! A glamorous lady takes the Strong Sulphur waters and hopes nobody spots her... Date: circa 1905
Loading Appollinaris Water at Remagen, GermanyLoading Appollinaris Water onto a riverboat on the River Rhein (Rhine) at Remagen, Germany. Date: circa 1910s
Buxton, Derbyshire - Mineral Water spring - St. Anns Well - fed by the geothermal spring. The waters are bottled and sold internationally by Buxton Mineral Water Company. Date: circa 1910s
Le Mont-Dore, France - Gargling Room at The Thermal spring, known since Roman times. Le Mont-Dore, formerly called Mont-Dore-les-Bains
The Homestead - Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia, USA Date: circa 1903
A Burmese Oilfield - showing a vast forest of wooden drilling rigs. Date: circa 1910s
Franco-British Exhibition - The Perrier PavilionFranco-British Exhibition, White City, Shepherds Bush, London - The Perrier Pavilion Card gievn away with the compliments of Perrier table water. Date: 1908
Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita Spa, Hakone, Japan Date: 1920s
Yessentuki, Russia - Spa TownYessentuki - a city in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located at the base of the Caucasus Mountains - Health Resort town in the Stavropol Krai region
A Bristol Sycamore operated by Australian National Airways equipped with an electromagnetometer for locating mineral ore deposits
Diamond in pebbleA solitary diamond in conglomerate, from Golconda, India
AquamarineThis Russian gem is about the size of a peach and weighs 898 carats
Agate geode
Agate Botswana
MorganiteThis gemstone is 600 carats and one of the worlds largest Morganite specimens
Opal in its natural form. The boulder has been split open to reveal the shimmering opal inside
Feldspar, collected by Dr Benza c.1837. NHM specimen number: BM 650
Diamond flower broochVictorian diamond-encrusted flower with a sapphire at its centre
Butterscotch wulfeniteA large specimen of the mineral wulfenite from the Glove Mine, Arizona, USA
Tourmaline cut stones see 666A group of tourmaline cut stones. Tourmaline is the name given to a group of eleven minerals which all have a general chemical formula
Belemnotheutis antiquusA well-preserved Upper Jurassic squid aged 160 million years. This specimen originates from the famous clay deposits in Wiltshire
Black opal131-carat black opal found in the Lightning Ridge area of New South Wales, Australia
EmeraldPossibly from the collection of Rt Hon Charles Greville in 1810. Emerald is a variety of beryl (beryllium aluminum silicate). The green colour attributed to small amounts of chromium
Yellow sapphire from Sri Lanka, 101 carats. Acquired by the museum in 1874
AgateBlue lace
Turritella agate
Agate thundereggs
Agate slice
Imperial TopazFound in 1852 in one of the oldest mines in the southeastern Ouro Preto region of Brazil
Padparadscha is one of the most unusual varieties of the mineral corundum
Blue sapphireSri Lankan specimen of blue sapphire. A rare example of the uncut material
Moss agate specimen
Agate
Copper massThis copper block was discovered by Samuel Hearne in the Arctic Circle in 1771. He carried it for a year before presenting it to the Hudsons Bay Company
Bloodstone or heliotrope carvingsThese frogs were carved from bloodstone by Paul Dreher. Bloodstone is green agate containing speckles of red jasper. All these derive from the cryptocrystalline quartz group
Spinel specimenSpinel crystals from Vietnam. The rock has been chipped away to reveal the well-defined crystals
Crystal balls are produced by grinding and polishing quartz (silicon dyoxide) cystal into spheres
Silver wireFound in the Kongsberg mines in Norway, this specimen still has its long wires attached to the white calcite in which they grew