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Advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit SauceBack of an advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit Sauce, of two bottles side by side -- actually an opened out needle holder. The verse describes how a husband would not eat any meat until his wife bought
Cover design, Weldons Beautiful Needlework, No. 2, showing a young woman in a crinoline dress sewing. Date: circa 1920s
Shepherds needle, Scandix pecten veneris, and hemlock chervil, Scandix anthriscus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician 1792
Surgical equipment for couching and the extraction of a cataract.. Surgical equipment for couching and the extraction of the cataract: Scarpas couching needle, Heys couching needle, Pelliers hook
Needle-leaved daviesia, Daviesia acicularis.. Illustration by Sydenham Edwards, engraved by Weddell. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Samuel Curtiss The Curtis Botanical Magazine, 1826
Glaucous-leaved Adams needle with pale yellow flowers, Yucca glauca, native of Carolina.. Illustration by John Curtis (the entomologist), engraved by Weddell
Fakir or fukeer, enthusiast.. handcolored copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from Asiatic Costumes, Ackermann, London, 1828
The Needle, Great Gable, CumbriaThe Needle, Great Gable, Seascale, Cumbria, England. Date: 1900s
A Chinese Woman darning, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum
The Needle Worker, WW1 knitting & sewing bookletFront cover of monthly magazine, The Needle Worker, from the Great War period featuring a photograph of a Belgian kepi cap - the knitting pattern for which was inside. Date: c.1915
Doll dressed in crochet as a soldier, WW1A doll dressed in a crocheted military uniform - pattern in The Needle Worker magazine, March 1915. Date: 1915
WW1 knitting booklet, The Higbee CompanyThe Knitting Needle has again come into its own. Front cover of a small booklet published by the Higbee Company (USA) containing patterns for knitting comforts for troops during the First World War
Alloa knitting wools by John Patons, 1899Advertisement for Alloa knitting wools by John Paton and Son, dated 1899. Though the company merged with J.P Coates in the 1960s, the Patons trademark continues in use today. Date: 1899
Riddle rhyme. Old Mother Twitchet had but one eye? Answer: Needle & cotton. Date: circa 1917
Ladies of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework GuildMembers of the Council of Queen Marys Needlework Guild. On 10th August 1914 Queen Mary issued an appeal to the women of the Empire to organise a large collection of garments for those who will suffer
Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. DavisTalkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931
Moving Cleopatras Needle, Cairo, Egypt. It was one of three which went to London, Paris and New York respectively during the 19th century. Date: circa 1870
Moving Cleopatras Needle, Egypt -- it was one of three which went to London, Paris and New York respectively during the 19th century. Date: circa 1870
Cleopatras Needle in silhouetteCleopatras Needle situated on the Victoria Embankment, London, watched over by the sphinx. The artist describes it rather poignantly as That Sad Stone. Date: 1926
Searchlights over Thames Embankment, London, WW1Searchlights over the Thames Embankment near Charing Cross, London, keeping watch for enemy aircraft in the early days of the First World War. Cleopatras Needle can be seen on the right. Date: 1914
Larding needles-cooking apparatus designed to push fat into meat, to keep it moist and flavoursome during the cooking process
Cholera vaccination in SpainA doctor innoculates a worried gentleman with the cholera vaccine. Date: 1885
Thames EmbankmentThe Embankment, showing the Savoy Hotel and Cleopatras Needle. Date: 1895
Marie Antoinette NoteA note pricked with a needle by the captive queen : I am closely watched, I speak to no one. I confide myself to you, I will come. Date: circa October 1793
SPOOKY EMBANKMENTA strangely eerie London Embankment, with the silhouette of Cleopatras Needle standing among the row of street lamps. Date: early 1930s
Tramps under the SphynxDown-and-out men sleeping under the sphynx at the base of Cleopatras Needle on the Victoria Embankment, London, England. Date: early 1930s
Head of a SphinxThe head of a bronze Sphinx, on the Embankment, London, one of a pair made to compliment Cleopatras Needle, which was was brought from Egypt to England in 1878. Date: early 1930s
Hotel Cecil and Embankment, London - at night. Date: circa 1910s
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942
Cleopatras Needle and Whitehall Court, London. Date: circa 1920s
Thread and Needle Street, St. Georges, BermudaThread and Needle Street, St. George s, Bermuda Date: circa 1930s
Parus ater, coal tit, Parus major, great titPlate 25 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)
Muscicapa striata, spotted flycatcherPlate 120 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Bone needles of Magdalenian ageBone needles dating back to about 15, 000 years ago. The Magdalenian tools discovered in France are believed to have belonged to early Homo sapiens who hunted reindeer during the last ice age
ConnelliteDeep-blue velvety crust of needles with some red cuprite. Connellite comprises of (hydrated copper sulphate chloride hydroxide). Specimen from Wheal Muttrell, Gwennap, Cornwall
Black basalt lavaThis basalt lave has cooled quickly and gas bubbles have formed into balls of fragile, needle-sharp crystals of zeolite minerals
Millerite comprises of (nickel sulphide) and is characterized by hair-like fibrous crystals arranged into sprays. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London
Carduelis pinus, pine siskinPlate 180 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Raper drawing No. 5View of SW coast of the Isle of Wight, 1. St Catherines Point; 2. the Needle Point. Painting by George Raper, 1789
Pinicola enucleator, pine grosbeakPlate 358 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Hemimorphite crystals enclosed in rock crystalHemimorphite, formerly known as calamine is comprised of (hydrated zinc silicate hydroxide). Magnification = x1.2
The Magic Patches. Orphan girl Linda sews patches on the coat of a beggar-man
Tailor sewing by a stream
Boy sewing in a window
Thames Embankment / CxTHE THAMES EMBANKMENT near Charing Cross, with Cleopatras Needle Date: 1922
Two kinds of pine needle flowers and a kind of anemone. Date 1755
Thames embankment, London, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Scoring, --coming up for the word: Little Fred, Needle Gun, Jessie Wales, Belle of Brooklyn, Old Put, and Lady Whitman. Date c1869