Pincers Collection

Blacksmith Tools 1875
A range of tools used by a blacksmith or ironsmith, including pincers, a hook, files, a hammer and a mallet. 1875

Leather making and tannery tools
Various tools used in tannery and leather making, including a knife, pincers and a hook

Tools used by a saddler and upholsterer
Various tools used by a saddler and upholsterer, including pliers, pincers, skewers, needles and a knife

Jeweller 1827
The exacting art of the jeweller

18th century surgical equipment
Bone saw 1, pincers 2, 3, scissors 4, lead mallet 5 and hook for childbirth 6. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderots Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779

Alican Land, Sidney Squirrel
A WW2 children's story book illustration from The Story Of Alican Land, written by Joan Hunt. The image shows Mr. Crab using his strong pincers to release Sidney Squirrel from a steel trap

Fantastic Adventures - The living Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story The living Dead by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger with pincers fights a weird looking red lion while a woman climb up a tree to

Two young girls on the sea shore encounter a crab Date: 1905

Metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century
Forged metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century. Horses bit, spade and napha or portfolio. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuves l Afrique, Paris, 1814

Cartoon, Vulcans Best Customer (Peace)
Cartoon, Vulcans Best Customer -- the angel of Peace asks the blacksmith Vulcan if hes very busy. A list of weapons to be produced is written up on the wall on the right

Butterfly collector tools, 19th century. Butterfly net, raquet nets, pincers, pins, etc. Handcoloured lithograph from Musee du Naturaliste dedie a la Jeunesse, Histoire des Papillons

18th century surgeon performing a trepanning operation on a mans head, with various surgical equipment: Jean Louis Petits lever 2, trestle 3, Valets pincers 4, cauterizers 5-8, round plaque 9

Stand of fire irons in polished wrought iron, designed by Ernest Gimson. circa 1910

Siege weapons, a battering ram and a crow
Two siege weapons in action -- a battering ram being attacked by a Crow (Corvus) equipped with pincers

Blacksmith holding up a hot horseshoe
Blacksmith working for the London horseguards, holding up a red hot horseshoe. Date: circa 1960s

Gibbs Happy Families - Miss Chips the Carpenters daughter. 20th century

Cartoon, The Inventors Dream, WW1
Cartoon, The Inventors Dream. An inventor dreams of fantastic new weaponry for delivery next spring. Date: 1917

Lobster and seaweed
A lobster surrounded by seaweed. Date: circa 1920s

Crab and seaweed
A crab surrounded by seaweed. Date: circa 1920s

Metropolitan Police blacksmith with WPC and horses
A blacksmith shaping a horseshoe on his anvil, while a Metropolitan Police WPC watches. Two horses stand waiting in the background. Date: circa 1980s

Beauty Treatment 1930S
A woman wearing a strange mask undergoing beauty treatment at a Berlin beauty specialists salon. Date: 1930s

Earwig, also showing its eggs and newly-hatched young

Housewife Using Twin Tub
A young housewife uses wooden pincers to pull her laundry out of the washing half of the Twin Tub washing machine to put it into the spinning half

False Eyelashes
Applying false eyelashes with the aid of pincers and a magnifying make-up mirror

The Carpenter 1827
A carpenter planing the edge of a board; a Turkey stone for sharpening his tools is in his work box and a newly made door and roof rafters behind him

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