Scythe Collection (#2)

Kronos / Saturn
Kronos, a Titan, dethroned his father Uranus as ruler of the world, but was dethroned by his son Zeus; the uroborus he holds, and the scythe at his feet, are symbols of time

Fairies in a field on a Christmas and New Year card
Fairies and goblins in a field on a Christmas and New Year card -- Harvest Time. Date: circa 1890s

Wheelbarrow and tools on a cutout greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

House of Fools of Love by Francisco Quevedo. Illustration
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Spanish writer. House of Fools of Love. Illustration. Printed in 1895. Private collection

Sharpening a scythe blade, c. 1800
Man sharpening a scythe blade to mow grass, c.1800 Date: C.1800

Old Father Time on a German New Year card
Old Father Time with hourglass, scythe and rose on a German New Year card dated 1 January 1815. Date: 1815

Country people in the Middle Ages -- a woman feeds a hen and chicks, a man sharpens his scythe before continuing to cut grass, and an older man carries a basket on his back. Date: circa 13th century

Japan - Japanese woman with sickle and laden basket backpack Date: circa 1910

Old Father Time and New Year baby on a New Year card
Old Father Time, and the New Year baby jumping out of a box on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Old Father Time and The Times (Le Temps) Newspaper, as well as other time-keeping mechanisms including an hourglass and a sundial. Date: circa 1890s

Young man carrying a scythe meets his girl amid the corn
A young man carrying a large scythe has a rendezvouz with his girl amid the corn... Date: circa 1890s

Summertime Scene - A family in the fields in Rural Germany Date: circa 1930s

Harvest labourer returning from fields - Normandy, France Date: circa 1908

Cutting Osiers for Basket Making, Lough Neagh
Cutting Osiers forBasket Making, Lough Neagh - a view of a man in a field with a scythe cutting osiers. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Lough Neagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Cheque from the Bank of Good Fortune, Prosperity Branch (postcard), paying the sum of 365 happy days on someones birthday. Date: circa 1890s

Cowper / Olney Vicarage
WILLIAM COWPER English poets home: the Vicarage at Olney in Buckinghamshire Date: 1731 - 1800

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

Emblematic illustration of the everlasting flower.. Handcolored steel engraving by C

Cartoon, The Indispensable Ally, WW1
Cartoon, The Indispensable Ally, showing the mythical figure of Old Father Time walking with his scythe in front of representative Allies on horseback during the First World War

Various fetal skeletons displayed
Anatomical display. Scene depicts various fetal skeletons, one holding a necklace of pearls, another holding a miniature scythe, another cries into a membrane

Scene at harvest time in France, Western Front, WW1
Scene at harvest time in France, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Mowing the Cocks Head
73 Year-old Sam Bennett demonstrates the old Warwickshire custom of Mowing the Cocks Head. Blindfolded, he tries to cut off the top of a clump of grass. Date: 1930s

Scything a London Square
A city gardener scything the grass in one of Londons squares. Date: early 1930s

Fruit Pickers
Three smart young men in waistcoats, scything, hoeing and picking fruit, with an older man supervising them, on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Meeting at the Crossroads - Slavonia, Croatia
Peasant folk meet for a chat at the Crossroads in Slavonia, a historical region in eastern Croatia. Date: circa 1917

Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s

Italian / Swiss border - Ticino Family - Lake Como
Italian/Swiss border - Ticino Family - Lake Como - A country family return from harveting heads of corn

ITALY. Trento. Castle Buonconsiglio. Eagles Tower. Cycle of the Months. Detail of a farmer sharpening the scythe. International

A new scythe cuts clean

Breton Reaper with gigantic Scythe
A Reaper with his immense scythe and solid wooden clogs - at Beauce, Brittany, France. Date: circa 1910s

Making Scythe Blades
Charcoal burning in Germany to make scythe blades for harvesting on farms. Date: 1930s

Unusual Farmyard Gate
An unusual farm gate, with a spade, scythe, axe etc, incorporated into its design, near Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Date: March 1939

Hedger with Scythe
A hedger keeps the rural hedgrows under control in the English countryside with his scythe. Date: early 1930s

Hungarian Harvest
A happy girl scything the harvest on a farm in Hungary. Date: 1930s

Quaint Gate, Moulton, Northampton - A gate formed of agricultural implements. Date: circa 1940

Time Speed Happily - Cars Speeding legally
Time Speed Happily - A New Years card for 1908

Pyrenean Man sharpening his scythe
Pyrenean Mountain Man sharpening his scythe, France Date: circa 1910s

Rustics Working
Rustic types working in the fields - taking a break Date: 1885

Puss in Boots talks to reapers mowing a meadow, persuading them to tell the King that the meadow belongs to his Master. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Old Father Time at the end of another year
Old Father Time trudges through the snow at the end of another year. He is carrying a scythe over one shoulder, and an hourglass in his other hand. On the horizon a red sun is setting

Man and woman of the Black Forest
A man and woman of the Black Forest preparing for the harvest. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Central France - Soup of the Day
Central France - A farming family tuck into the Soup of the Day

Golden Grain
A satirical picture of an American reaper with a huge scythe representing the rate of exchange being sharpened with a lathe representing sterling currency

An Ancient British War Chariot
An Ancient British Tribal War Chariot

Japanese Farming Family and their barn

The Ironmongers Shop. A little girl amid the metal tools, pails, buckets, kettles, cans, scythes and rakes in an Ironmongers store

Macdiarmid / Hugh / Morgan
HUGH MACDIARMID alias CHRISTOPER MURRAY GRIEVE Scottish poet who advocated a Scottish literary revival

1555 / Fighting Snakes
Swedish countryfolk fighting serpents

Chalutzim-Kibbutz Worker
Chalutzim (farm workers) on a Kibbutz

Death / Marble Tomb / Malta
An elaborately carved marble tomb covering depicting an allegory of the figure of death from a tomb in the Cathedral at Victoria (Rabat) on the island of Gozo, Malta

Social / Russia / Peasant
A Russian peasant sharpening his scythe

Millennium / Cherub & Time
Allegorical illustration of the new year (as a cherub) holding Father Times scythe

Plague in Manchuria / 1911
The Plague scours over the Manchurians, with his scythe, dressed in a deep red robe

Sharpening a Scythe
Sam Bennett of Ilmington, Warwickshire, England, aged 74, who has used a scythe for 52 years and can still mow one and a quarter acres a day!

Father Time (Roxburghe)
With hour-glass and scythe

Harvesting in Germany
Harvest A woman in a red dress carries in the harvest while a man in the background cuts the crops with a scythe

Bootes Star Map
The constellation of Bootes - holding a club in his right hand and leading two hounds with his left. The beautiful hair of Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy is seen on the right

Guard Star Map
Constellaton showing Camelopardalis (giraffe), Tarandus (deer) and Custos Messum (guard) with his staff and scythe

Ancient Egypt Farming
A variety of Ancient Egyptian Farming scenes, and a horse- pulled wine cask, originally from the Alps

Time Smoking a Picture
Father Time stares glumly into a dark painting as his scythe accidentally rips the canvas: a satire on the contemporary admiration for artworks darkened by time

Girl Harvester Drinks
A dark haired young woman stands amid a corn field with a hand scythe hanging from her waist & a jug in her hand. In her hair are poppies & cornflowers from the field

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