Python Collection

Cans of Spam 1940S
Canned Spam luncheon meat, priced at 1 4D (one shilling and four pence in old money), on a shelf in a grocery store

Avro Lincoln RF403 testbed
Avro Lincoln, RF403, testbed for the Armstrong Siddeley Python turboprop. This aircraft was scrapped in Australia in 1958 following high altitude bombing trials at Woomera. Date: 1958

Python sebae, African rock python
Hand coloured lithograph from final volume of Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle complcte des Reptiles (1854) by A.M.C. Dumeril, G. Bibron, and A. Dumeril

Zoo keeper with python at London Zoo, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

A selection of salon shoes. Date: 1930

Amethystine python, Simalia amethistina
Amethystine python or scrub python, Simalia amethistina. Pitone amatistino. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Green frog, Pelophylax kl. esculentus
Green frog or edible frog, Pelophylax kl. esculentus. Ranocchio comune. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Carpet python, scarlet snake, and red-bellied black snake
Carpet python, Morelia spilota 1, scarlet snake, Cemophora coccinea 2, red-bellied black snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus 3, and Coluber ocellatus 4

A Variety of womens walking shoes 1926
Ladies 1920s footwear walking shoe. Date: circa 1926

Feeding the Python - Port Elizabeth Museum - South Africa
Feeding the South African Python (Python Sebae) at the Port Elizabeth Museum - South Africa. The snake is 16 feet long! Date: circa 1908

INDIAN PYTHON
The Indian Python or Indian Rock Python, is a snake found in India, especially in the mangrove forest, scrub jungle and cool dense rain forests. Date: 1970s

A Reticulated Python swims from a small freshwater-stream into a sea, to move between parts of island shore (Python reticulatus )

Rock Python skin
Dr Colin McCarthy examining a Rock Python skin in the Zoology department of The Natural History Museum, London

Apollo and the Python
He slays the dragon Python, who guards the sacred site of Delphi, establishing his own sanctuary there, angering Zeus who exiles him for several years

Indian python, Python molurus, and New Guinea bockadam, Cerberus rynchops.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Amethystine or scrub python, Morelia amethistina.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

Girl with Python Kings Road Chelsea
Girl with her boyfriend walking down Kings Road, Chelsea, wearing a mini skirt, leg warmers and a python in 1983 Date: 1983

Advert for Mayflowa crocodile, ostrich and lizard shoes 1926
Complete range of Mayflowa women reptile shoes. Available from The House of Abbott, in Regents and Oxford Street, London. 1926

Ground running an Armstrong Siddeley Python turboprop on an Avro Lancaster

Avro Lancaster III TW911
Avro Lancaster III, TW911, just after take off, modified to take two 3, 670shp Amstrong Siddeley Python I turboprops in the outboard positions

Python molurus, tiger python
Skeleton of a tiger python (Python molurus) from Southeast Asia, now part of the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Open case with snake skeleton, 1939. The Natural History Mu
This Indian python skeleton, Python molurus, is still on display today

African Python
A coiled African Python. Date: 1960s

Boas & Python
Haition Boas and a Carpet Python. Date: 1960s

Variety of Snakes
1) Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) 2)" Pedda Poda" Python 3)" Port Natal" Python 4) Rattlesnake (genus Crotalus) 5) Black Rattlesnake 6) Cobra (Naia tripudians)

Apollo Pythias
APOLLO PYTHIAS, the Greek god of the arts, including divination : there were sanctuaries and oracles dedicated to him, notably at Delphi where he slew Python

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