Piece Collection (page 9)

Guell Palace. Barcelona. Spain
Spain. Barcelona. Guell Palace. 1885-1889. Built by Antoni Gaudi. Chimneys

Music cover, Brothers-in-Arms, descriptive piece by Theo Bonheur. 1914

Savoy Taylors Guild, London -- invoice and receipt for cleaning a two-piece suit. 1927

Selling War Certificates, Birchington
Hannah Powell-Cotton, in her uniform as Commandant of Birchington Voluntary Aid Detachment, sitting at a table selling War Certificates during War Weapons Week

ASCOT PARTY GAME
Playing Ascot at a Christmas party. The horses have to cut down the centre of a piece of tape with curved nail scissors, the winner being the one to pass the post first! Date: 1930s

Meuble De Salon 6
Meuble de salon (roughly, cupboard for living room) in black wood and copper, in the Louis XIV style, with accompanying piece for keeping your knitting in. Date: circa 1860

French Bookcase
Bibliotheque a un seul corps (book case in a single piece) in black wood and copper, in the Louis XVI style. Date: circa 1860

Fox Hunting Music Sheet
FOXHUNTING A descriptive piece in praise of the sport. Date: circa 1860

Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, cut-fingered pumps. Woman: sleeves with deep fur cuffs, Spanish farthingale. Date: mid 16th century

French Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, ermine lined gown. Woman: bodice & skirt fastens down the front with bows. Date: mid 16th century

French Court Dress C1520
French court dress: paned & bombasted trunk-hose, cod- piece, doublet & jerkin with fur-collar & wings, gown, ruff, ermine cape & cut- fingered pumps. Date: mid 16th century

Turner Working a Lathe
A turner using a treadle- operated turning-lathe to carve a piece of wood Date: 1827

3-PIECE SUIT 1909
A sobre looking R G Tatlow wears a dark chalk stripe 3- piece suit with narrow trousers, waistcoat with a collar, shirt with a turn down collar, tie & black boots. Date: 1909

Swedish Frocks 1927
Rather matronly low waisted dresses: two with pleated skirts, also a two-piece dress with blouson top, an open robe in a bright pattern & a blue dress with a tiered skirt. Date: 1927

Male Type / Two Men 1920S
Two young men in three-piece suits and trilby hats, standing in front of a car. Date: 1920s

Casual Wear 1940s
Bib and brace shorts (dungarees) or dress; shapeless, woollen coat with patch pockets; halter-neck summer frock or two-piece summer suit. Date: 1940s

CARPENTER / 1887
A carpenter planes a piece of wood. Date: 1887

Coffee & Cakes Party
He wears a single breasted, dark 3-piece suit. Of the ladies frocks: one uses plain fabrics with contrasting collar & cuffs; the other 3 are of various printed textiles. Date: 1930

ARMOUR / 1555
A knight in armour Date: 1555

TAILOR 1827
A tailor cuts a piece of fabric with scissors while his two female employees take a customers measurements in the background. Date: 1827

Henri Ii / Anon Eng
HENRI II Wearing a rather frightening cod piece Date: 1519 - 1559

Advert for Simpson lastex swimwear 1938
Lastex rules the waves. Two women posing with their swim-suits made from wool lastex. 1938

King Edward VII on piano music
EDWARD VII, BRITISH ROYALTY while Prince of Wales depicted on the cover of a very easy piece for piano

Advert for Marshall & Snelgrove fashionable dresses 1929
Advertisement for womens summer floral dresses. 1929

Advertisement, Mars Bar -- compare the quality, compare the price. 1948

Advert for Maple fitted bedroom furniture 1898
Inexpensive fitted bedroom furniture and also an example of a cabinet with casting and carved panels and a sink with hot and cold taps. Date: 1898

Two bedroom fireplace 1936
Two fire places with simple designs, one with two coloured tiles with kerbed hearth and the other with a raised hearth. Date: 1936

Fashion for winter sports 1929
Models wearing comfortable ski-wear. 1929

Scene at a seance, with a woman sitting in a chair on the right, and a man emerging from behind a curtain with a long piece of white muslin in his mouth (presumably meant to be ectoplasm)

Studio portrait, young man in a smart three-piece suit, wearing glasses. Date: circa 1910s

Page of fashion adverts 1933
Three fashion adverts for womens clothing for the 1930s. 1933

Boy eating watermelon while his friend steals a piece in America Date: circa 1901

Mother and children on a jigsaw puzzle
Mother and children at a table on a jigsaw puzzle -- the pieces are square shaped. Date: circa 1890s

Piece of fruit cake on a Christmas card -- A wish for many Happy Months. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Leyland swim caps 1933
Advertisement for Leyland, bathing cap, fits like a glove, without ridges or ruckless. Has shell ear-pieces for comfort. 1933

Forma woollen swim suits 1933
Models wearing backless one-piece bathing wear with a stripe theme. 1933

Piece of paper on a desk with a large number 12
A piece of paper on a desk with a large handwritten number 12

Two kittens on a New Year card, playing with chess pieces. circa 1890s

Two dogs with knitting on a Christmas and New Year card
Two dogs fighting over a piece of knitting on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, In the trench, WW1
Cartoon, In the trench, showing four French soldiers in a trench on the Western Front at night, sharing pieces of a New Year cake, or Galette. Date: 1916

Three-pice summer suit, 1927
Another variation of a popular theme - a three piece summer suit from Harvey Nichols model department 1927

Cartoon, Pacific Overtures, or, a Flight from St Clouds over the Water to Charley, a new Dramatic Piece now Rehearsing, by James Gillray

Two boys emptying a piggy bank onto a table. The coins seem to be mostly penny and threepenny pieces (pre-decimalisation). Date: circa 1960s

Greek armor. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

WW2 greetings card, Safety First, showing a sleeping bear with a barrage balloon on a piece of string. Date: circa 1942

Pipe screwing machine for hat factory - this would be a piece of machinery for delivery to the recently purchased factory at Conty which Battersby

Strimping Machine at Battersbys hatworks, another solid piece of machinery bearing the makers name Date: 1902

Tipstitcher machine at Battersbys hatworks - a fantastic piece of solid engineering, obviously built to last! Date: 1902

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