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Sealed Collection

Background imageSealed Collection: Pratts Motor Oil

Pratts Motor Oil
A circular enamel sign advertising Pratts Motor Oil. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Background imageSealed Collection: Entrance to the bazaar or market of Jerusalem, Israel, 1800s

Entrance to the bazaar or market of Jerusalem, Israel, 1800s
Entrance to the bazaar, besestein or market of Jerusalem, Israel, 1800s. Ingresso del mercato. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient

Background imageSealed Collection: Julia Pastrana

Julia Pastrana (1834 - 1860), from Mexico, a hairy woman who married a showman, Theodor Lent, but died in childbirth at Moscow (the child also died)

Background imageSealed Collection: Julia Pastrana from Mexico, hairy woman

Julia Pastrana from Mexico, hairy woman
Julia Pastrana, from Mexico, a hairy woman who married a showman, Theodor Lent, but died in childbirth at Moscow (the child also died)

Background imageSealed Collection: Documents written in blood

Documents written in blood are considered exceptionally bind- -ing, as Faust will discover when Mephistopheles requires him to fulfil his side of their contract Date: 1506

Background imageSealed Collection: Reservoir of the Sealed Fountain near Bethlehem, 1800s

Reservoir of the Sealed Fountain near Bethlehem, 1800s. Serbaloio del Fons Signatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient

Background imageSealed Collection: 2nd Bn Royal Ulster Rifles Memorial Cambes en Plaine

2nd Bn Royal Ulster Rifles Memorial Cambes en Plaine
The Battalion captured the village on 9 June. The German posltion was one of the strongest on this part of the front. The capture sealed the connection between Canadian & British Forces

Background imageSealed Collection: Three Angle Golden Bell battery Chinese advertising poster

Three Angle Golden Bell battery Chinese advertising poster. Long lasting and never leaks. Factory produced in Shanghai, China, c. 1940 Date: c. 1940

Background imageSealed Collection: King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede

King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede
John, King of England (1166-1216) signs the Magna Carta (Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England) - forced onto him by the feudal barons

Background imageSealed Collection: German Postman - circa 1909

German Postman - circa 1909
The German postman hands a sealed letter to the son of the house while his mother watches. Date: circa 1909

Background imageSealed Collection: Magdeburg Hemispheres

Magdeburg Hemispheres
In 1650 Otto von Guericke demonstrated that even a team of horses could not tug apart his hermetically sealed hemispheres from which the air had been evacuated

Background imageSealed Collection: New Year card in the shape of a jug of rum

New Year card in the shape of a jug of rum. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSealed Collection: Lord Carnarvon arrives at Luxor with his daughter

Lord Carnarvon arrives at Luxor with his daughter
Lord Carnarvon arrived at Luxor from Cairo on January 29th 1923 for the opening of the sealed inner chamber at King Tutankhamens tomb

Background imageSealed Collection: Warrant officers balmoral, Highland Regiments

Warrant officers balmoral, Highland Regiments, 1948. Sealed pattern, 1948. Manufactured by Robert Mackie Limited, 1948. Blue wool. Date: 1948

Background imageSealed Collection: Christmas card in the shape of a round bottle

Christmas card in the shape of a round bottle. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSealed Collection: German greetings card in the shape of a perfume bottle

German greetings card in the shape of a perfume bottle. circa 1890s

Background imageSealed Collection: Girl sends a letter to her love

Girl sends a letter to her love
Victorian Christmas card. Girl sending or receiving a greeting, watches a swallow flying with a sealed missive. Date: circa 1885

Background imageSealed Collection: Sealed Orders by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton

Sealed Orders by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton
Promotional postcard for Sealed Orders by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. First produced Drury Lane Theatre, 11th September 1913

Background imageSealed Collection: The Tears of st John. Apocalypse of Angers

The Tears of st John. Apocalypse of Angers
BATAILLE, Nicolas (14th c.). The Tears of St. John. 1375 - 1382. St John weeping for the Sealed Book. Sixth Scene of the tapestry number 1 from the series Apocalypse of Angers commissioned by Louis

Background imageSealed Collection: WWI Poster, The Scrap of Paper, Enlist Today (Welsh version)

WWI Poster, The Scrap of Paper, Enlist Today (Welsh version)
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Scrap of Paper, Enlist Today. Referring to Belgian independence and the broken treaty of 1839 (Welsh version). Date: 1915

Background imageSealed Collection: Certificate, Freedom of the Town of Port Louis, Mauritius

Certificate, Freedom of the Town of Port Louis, Mauritius
Certificate confirming the Freedom of the Town of Port Louis, Mauritius, awarded to the Mauritius Boy Scouts Association by the Municipal Council, officially dated, sealed

Background imageSealed Collection: Greetings Postcard with good luck Shamrocks

Greetings Postcard with good luck Shamrocks
Greetings Postcard with Good Luck Shamrocks surrounding a wax-sealed envelope Date: 1912

Background imageSealed Collection: Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a basket

Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a basket
Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a wickerwork basket. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSealed Collection: Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert

Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert
Lord Carnarvon and his daughter, Lady Evelyn Herbert arriving at their hotel, the Winter Palace at Luxor. The purpose of Lord Carnarvon was to witness the opening of the inner sealed chamber of

Background imageSealed Collection: Packing Kelloggs Flakes

Packing Kelloggs Flakes
KELLOGGs CORNFLAKES In the packing room at Battle Creek, the cereals are packed in the inner sealed Waxtite cartons to insure (sic) their crisp freshness Date: 1930s

Background imageSealed Collection: Five tags attached to the undervest

Five tags attached to the undervest
Photograph of the five tags attached to the undervest, signed by witnesses at the Edinburgh exposure of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan, 11 May 1933

Background imageSealed Collection: The excavation of Tutankhamun

The excavation of Tutankhamun
The photograph show the second stage of entry into the sealed chamber of the only intact shrine of a pharaoh ever found

Background imageSealed Collection: Death of Leopold I

Death of Leopold I
His body is sealed in its coffin by the minister of justice and placed in a royal vault at Leaken

Background imageSealed Collection: Statue of Tutankhamen

Statue of Tutankhamen on guard at his sepulchre for 3000 years. One of the life size statues standing either side of a sealed which was left sealed until Lord Carnarvon arrived to open it

Background imageSealed Collection: The Reign of Suspicion at Yildiz Kiosk

The Reign of Suspicion at Yildiz Kiosk
Scene from the kitchens of the Sultan at the palace of Yildiz in Turkey, showing the Sultans dinner being tasted and then sealed with a long ribbon by palace officials, in order to avoid poisoning

Background imageSealed Collection: Edisons electric lamp

Edisons electric lamp
Components of the electric lamp patented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1879. The lamp worked by passing an electric current through a carbon filament enclosed in a vacuum in a sealed glass bulb

Background imageSealed Collection: New Alexandra Graving Dock at Belfast

New Alexandra Graving Dock at Belfast
Prince Albert Victor, opening the new Alexandra graving-dock at Belfast. A graving or dry dock was a dock which could be sealed off with gates, enabling work to be carried out on the hull

Background imageSealed Collection: Card; Kittens

Card; Kittens
Two kittens, who have been sealed inside an envelope with some greenery, peer out in astonishment at a fly... a typical German Christmas scene

Background imageSealed Collection: Belgian Postman

Belgian Postman
A Belgian postman hands a sealed letter to a surprised fisherman

Background imageSealed Collection: Social / German Postman

Social / German Postman
The German postman hands a sealed letter to the son of the house while his mother watches


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