Polished Collection

Art Deco Dressing Table
This charming bedroom dressing table is in polished mellow toned walnut of pleasing modern design. It has a shaped rimless mirror with a glamorous light fitting!

The Royal East Kent Regiment - Corporal
A Corporal of the East Kent Regiment (The Buffs). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Opal gem with opal rock
The polished gem is from an unknown locality while the rough specimen of opal rock comes from Baracoo River, Queensland, Australia

Telegram Boys 1930S
A line-up of smart young telegraph boys with immaculate uniforms and highly polished shoes

Jasper
A polished slab of jasper from Campsie Fells, Stirlingshire. Jasper is cryptocrystalline agate quartz (silicon dioxide)

Plate 4, fig 2 Puddingstone - from Mineralienbuch
An illustration of a polished section of puddingstone. Puddingstone is a conglomerate sedimentary rock. Plate 4, fig 2 from Mineralienbuch by F. A. Schmidt, Stuttgart 1855

Polished slab of labradorite
Labradorite (calcium sodium aluminum silicate) can seem dull and grey until the light hits correctly, then an array of colours can be observed glowing on the surface

Conference table and photos, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine
View of a conference table, and two photos on the walls, in the Livadia (Livadija) Palace, Yalta, Ukraine, where the historic February 1945 meeting took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Interior of new Pullman Mors car
Photograph showing the plush interior of the Marquis of Angleseys new Pullman Mors car, which included polished mohogany, revolving leather arm chairs and heating

A Game of Bezique / Photo
A man and two women play a game of bezique around a polished wood table in a comfortable drawing room

Blue John
Polished slice of Blue John from Derbyshire, England. The mineral is so far unique to one location in the Derbyshire Peak District, England

RMS Olympic, complete multiple panel, polished oak
R.M.S. OLYMPIC: Superb complete multiple panel section in polished oak, multiple stencil and impressed stamps Sitting Rm 3 Shelter Dk SS400 PORT SIDE. 21ins. x 69ins

RMS Titanic - Maria Robinson's locket and brooch
RMS Titanic - property of Maria Robinson, fiancee of Wallace Hartley, bandleader and violinist, who died in the disaster. A 9 carat rose gold small oval locket

Advert for Peggy Sage
Wartime advert for Peggy Sage Salons and nail polish. Date: 1940

Advert for Min Cream Polish. Supply of the product was restricted during the war. Date: 1943

Advert for Min Piano Polish, promising a beautiful finish in half a minute. Date: 1932

Superb four horse fire engine with firemen
This magnificent highly polished fire engine with six helmeted firemen standing to attention on top, is outside its Fire Station. The card was posted in Bootle so the Station is probably there

Elegant Edwardian reception room with polished wooden table, chaise longue, large family photographic portrait over the mantelpiece and neat shelves of leather-bound volumes. Date: 1912

Two dancing teams who entertain on the polished floors of Hotels and Night Clubs, 1928. Ricardo and Lucita (top left) introducing a new dance Fantasie Parisienne and Jimmy Pendleton and Valeda Worth

Polished ourapteryx and swallow-tailed moth
Polished ourapteryx, Ourapteryx politata 1 and swallow-tailed moth, Ourapteryx sambucaria 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Thumbnail crab, Thia scutellata (Polished thia, Thia polita). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological Miscellany

Chambered or great nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius (Nautilus crassus) 1 and polished shell below 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G.W

MIrror seller, Qing Dynasty. The mirrors are made of highly polished copper. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

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

Ballroom, Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, California, USA. Date: circa 1908

Advert for Thornhills portable weighing machine 1895
Portable polished oak and carpet platform personal weighing machine. 1895

Advert for Maple & Co. lamps 1893
Selection of wrought iron and polished brass extending floor lamps. Date: 1893

Scots soldier pursued by shoeshine boys
Shine, sir -- half piastre. A Scottish soldier with outsized boots polished like mirrors, being pursued by four Egyptian shoeshine boys! Date: 1916

Trade Catalogue for surprice spirit tables 1930
Selection of quality 1930s spirit tables made from fumed oak in a jacobean style and polished burr walnut, fitted with the finest English cut glass set. 1930

Shoe shine in street, Lisbon
A shoe shine man cleans a customers shoes in a Lisbon street, Portugal. The male customer holds on to a traffic light as his shoes are polished. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Advert for Mappin & Webb Princes Plate cutlery case 1935
Polished oak cabinet containing a range of cutlery, with a course of handles. Date: 1935

Washington DC, USA - Grand Staircase - Library of Congress
Washington DC, USA - Grand Staircase (made out of polished marble) - Library of Congress. Date: circa 1910s

Church Furniture, Plate 166, showing candle holders, candlesticks, lecterns, boxes, vases and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Baalbek, Lebanon - Marble columns - Octagonal Building
Lebanon - Polished marble columns suppport the heavy blockwork roof lintels in this octagonal structure in the environs of Baalbek

Cyclopean Wall - Sacsayhuaman Complex, Cuzco, Peru
Sacsayhuaman (also known as Saksaq Waman, Sacsahuaman or Saxahuaman) - a walled complex on the northern outskirts of the city of Cuzco, Peru, the former capital of the Inca Empire

Sergeant Major - Grenadier Guards
A Sergeant Major of The Grenadier Guards. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Close-up of a Bentley car badge. Date: circa 1960s

Advert for J. C Vickery wind screen for match box 1914
Electro-plated or polished lacquered brass, easy to use works in the must strongest winds patent match box screen. Flat silver pocket flask. 1914

The Enthusiastic Bootblack by H M Bateman, starts with an innocent scenario, a man needs his shoes polished, but the Bootblack on the street is an earnest and hardworking type

Polished Stone Axes Found at Danesfort, Malone Rd, Belfast - a view of a number of axes with a ruler for scale. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Polished brass chandeliers, Plate 259
Two, three and five-light polished brass chandeliers, Plate 259. Date: circa 1880s

Flint axe. 3600-3400 BC. Western Zealand, Denmark
Flint axe on a helve of birch wood. 3600-3400 BC. From Arnakkegard, Western Zealand. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Flint axe. 3100-3000 BC. Eastern Zealand, Denmark
Flint axe on a helve of ash wood. 3100-3000 BC. From Sigerslev Mose, eastern Zealand. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Polished flint axes. 3700-3500 BC. From Hagelbjerggard, central Zealand. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Flint axe of stone from Denmark
Flint axe of stone. Neolithic. From Denmark. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Boots and shoes on a Christmas card
A large number of boots and shoes on a greetings card -- May Christmas joys not wear you out. Date: circa 1890s

Victorian spirits cabinet 1890
New pattern" Falstaff" spirit case, in a traditional oak barrel design with three bottles with stoppers and glasses that can be lifted out on a tray. Date: 1890

Match between St. John's, Battersea and St. Mark's, Chelsea
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford (1852-1928) - who served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Date: circa 1907

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