Pointed Collection (page 9)

Jewish Man, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Described as a Jewish Man, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

German Red Cross soldiers in Berlin, WW1
German Red Cross soldiers marching along a Berlin street in the early stages of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Cartoon, As One Possessed, WW1
Cartoon, As One Possessed, showing how the ordinary German beer drinker has been possessed by a devil in the shape of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has brought about the outbreak of the First World War

Kaiser Wilhelm with his generals, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany giving directions to his generals at the start of the First World War. Date: 1914

Halloween Greetings Postcard
On Halloween, the witches night, If YELLOW is the lantern light Your future surely will be bright. A witch flies across the moonlit sky on her broomstick

Cartoon, Knights of the Air, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled Knights of the Air, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II and Field Marshal Von Hindenburg with a scene of destruction behind them

Cartoon, Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer, WW1
Cartoon, Surprises in Store for England, 1. Krupps New Man-Throwing Howitzer. An imaginary scene showing German soldiers standing inside shell casings, ready to be fired at the enemy

Caricature, Sir John French as a Frenchman, WW1
Caricature of Field Marshal Sir John French, British Army officer, depicted as a Frenchman at the start of the First World War. He led the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from August 1914

WWI - German Infantry Officer Date: 1914

Advert for J. Roussel underwear 1948
A blonde bombshell model wearing the Roussel suspender belt garment, with bullet padding bra. 1948

Holy Week Procession
An Easter Holy Week procession in Seville, Spain, showing the participants dressed in the weird white costumes with masks and pointed hats. Date: early 1930s

Portrait of a Lady with a Large Pointed Hat (c. 1786-93). Peters, Rev. Matthew William 1741-1814. Date: 1786 - 1793 (circa)

Flag of the Commonwealth of Australia. The flags original design (with a six-pointed Commonwealth Star - as shown on this card)

Notre-Dame de Roscudon, France - Gothic Portico
Pointe du Raz, Douarnenez, France - Elaborate 16th century portico of The Monastery Church of Notre-Dame de Roscudon. Date: circa 1910s

Greece, Corfu - Man from Epirus
Man from the Epirus region - a geographical and historical region shared between Greece and Albania. It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea

Lisbon, Portugal - Fish Seller carrying two wide wicker baskets of fresh fish on a pole over his shoulder - he is wearing traditional national costume

Portugal - Madeira - Traditional costumes. The Grey heaired (and bearded) guitarist is wearing a distinctive pointed carapuca hat

Portugal - Madeira - Children in traditional costume, featuring pointed red carapuca caps. Date: circa 1909

Shell
Specimen shell held at the Natural History Museum, London

Strombus luhuanus, red-mouthed stromb
Watercolour 392 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gung-e-ra-nere, from the Watling Collection

Plate 37 from Sebas Thesauri
Illustration from A Sebas Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descripttio, Vol 3, 1758. This plate shows the way Seba displayed the specimens in the drawers of his shell cabinet

Sir Hans Sloanes collection of shells
Plate 5 from Arhtur MacGregors Hans Sloane, 1994. Shell specimens showing Sir Hans Sloanes catalogue numbers

Acanthocybium solandri, wahoo
Ff. 87 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, Russian sturgeon
Plate 13 from Fishes of Economic Importance of the USSR by Lev Semenovich Berg and others (1949)

Acipenser stellatus, star sturgeon
Plate 17 from Fishes of Economic Importance of the USSR by Lev Semenovich Berg and others (1949)

Tupaia glis, common tree shrew
Teeth in the upper mandible of a male comon tree shrew, showing the fundamental mammalian triangle of sharp, pointed cusps. Scale is in millimetres

Charonia rubicunda, red australwelk
Watercolour 387 by Thomas Watling, entitled Nag-ga-rang, from the Watling Collection

Tibia insulae-chorab, Arabian tibia
Apair of Arabian tibia shells (Tibia insulae-chorab), This amazing, pointed gastropod can be found in the Indian Ocean in intertidal regions upto 50 metres deep

Telescopium telescopium, telescope shell
A pair of telescope shells (Telescopium Telescopium). This amazingly symetrical, marine gastropod originates from the Indo-Pacific

Pleuroploca trapezium, trapezium horse conch
A pair of trapezium horse conch (Pleuroploca trapezium). This marine gastropod originates from the Indo-Pacific

Haustellum haustellum, snipes bill murex
A pair of snipes bill murex (Haustellum haustellum ). This marine Gastropod originates from the Indo-Pacific near Japan

Trochus niloticus, top shell
A pair of top shells (Trochus niloticus). Top shells are herbivorous marine gastropods, they occur throughout the Indo-Pacific

Murex pecten, Venus comb
A pair of Venus combs (Murex pecten). This heavily ornamented gastropod has a row of spines making it look like a comb. They can be found throughout the Indo-Pacific

Lambris chiragra, spider conch
Watercolour of a spider conch by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Oryx gazella, gemsbok
Specimen on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Cassiterite
A dark-brown single crystal of cassiterite among quartz. Cassiterite comprises of (tin oxide) and forms ornately faceted crystals with high lustre. Specimen from Turnavore mine, St. Agnes, Cornwall

Pyromorphite

Littorina sp. periwinkle
A comparison of various periwinkle specimens (Littorina), held at the Natural History Museum, London

Lamna nasus, porbeagle shark
Specimen of a porbeagle sharks head on the dissection table outside the Tank Room of the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Volute shell
Watercolour 389 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gung a rong, from the Watling Collection

Charonia rubicunda, red australwelk and a volute
Watercolour 388 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gna-gorong and Gung a rung, from the Watling Collection

Strombus tricornis, lightfoot
Shell specimen with Martin Listers engraving from his Historiae Sive Synopsis Methodicae Conchyliorum, 1685-1692, plate 873

Collection of molluscs
Plate 16 from The History of Rutherglen and East-Kilbride by David Ure ( 1793)

Monodon monoceros, narwhal
The skull and a selecton of vertebrae specimens of the narwhal whale, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Fasciolaria tulipa, true tulip
A pair of true tulips (Fasciolaria tulipa). The true tulip is a carnivorous gastropod that is closely related to the horse conch

Mimetite
A tall, orange prismatic crystal of mimetite. Mimetite comprises of (lead chloroarsenate)

Benthosuchus sushkini
A fossil skull once belonging to an amphibian which lived during the Triassic period, 230 million years ago. This fossil originates from the Triassic rocks of the Scharzhenga river, Vachnevo Russia

Adamite
A specimen of the mineral adamite (zinc arsenate hydroxide). It is a fluorescent mineral, popular among collectors and shows bright green fluorescent under UV lights

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