Sickle Collection

The Farming Year by Pauline Baynes
The Farming Year, painted in the style of a medieval stained glass window by Pauline Baynes, showing the agricultural activities of a farmer of the Middle Ages month by month

Druids (ancient Priests) collect mistletoe
The Druids were highly respected by the Britons because of their wisdom and used to collect mistletoe to give to people on feast days

Druids cut mistletoe
A druid cuts a bunch of mistletoe from the branch of a tree with a golden sickle, the mistletoe dropping into a sheet held below

Japanese ways of chivalry: a display of ancient fighting methods by the Budokwai in London at the Aeolian Hall. Wielding "saucepan lids", sickle and chain

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Monument to Arctic exploration - Archangel
Russia, Arkhangelsk (Archangel) - Monument to Arctic exploration and explorers. 2010

Communism in Russia 1934
Standing by to hoist the flag when Europe turns communist may mean a long wait, but at least its a steady job!

MUSSOLINI / HARVESTING 33
BENITO MUSSOLINI Italian dictator sets an example by helping out with the harvest Date: 1933

Gravestone of Sosas and Nostimos. Greece
Gravestone of the farmers Sosas and Nostimos the Miletian. 2nd century AD. Archaeological Museum of Marathon. Greece

Spanish Civil War poster, Juan Negrin
Spanish Civil War poster in the Catalan language. Companys -- I could not live without freedom. Juan Negrin -- The intimate root of Catalunya is nourished by liberal substances. Date: circa 1938

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Farmer! Your enemies made you work from sunrise ti susnet to feed them. Now, when the land is yours, work from sunrise to sunset to annihilate them. Poster

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Poster by Carles Fontsere for the Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). Upper detail

Cartoon, The Harvest of War, WW1
Cartoon, The Harvest of War, showing a German general with his head bowed on a battlefield, while the ghosts of dead soldiers march past with agricultural implements

Harold Macmillan during a visit to Soviet Russia
Harold Macmillan (Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, 1894-1986), British Conservative politician, Prime Minister 1957-1963

Burial of an Old British Chief
The ceremonial burial of the chief of a British tribe, his body carried on a bier, accompanied by Warriors and Druids. Date: circa 4th century AD

A scene in a church, with the priests dead and the poor-box robbed, during the Spanish Civil War. On the wall, a hammer and sickle motif and the legend Viva Russia has been painted

Allegorical figure of summer with sickle and wheat
Allegorical wall painting of summer from the east of the atrium of Regio IX.V.11. She carries a sickle and wheat. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno

Sickle Date: 1880

Hammer and Sickle statue, Moscow, Russia
Symbolic statue of a couple holding the symbolic Hammer and Sickle, silhouetted against a clouded sky in Moscow, Russia. circa 1968

Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II. Statue
Ashurnasirpal II. King of Assyria (883-859 BC). Statue. 865 BC. From the Temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi, Nimrud. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Roman Art. Spain. Agricultural tools. Archeological Museum. Seville. Andalusia

Greek Art. Greece. Iron tools. Olympia
Greek Art. Greece. Iron tools of everyday use from the sanctuary of Olympia. Archaeological Museum of Olympia

Burma - Socialist Propaganda postcard
Burma (now Myanmar) - Socialist Propaganda postcard from the early years of the Socialist State in Burma. The card appears to be showing a happy unity between a soldier representing the military

Belgian farmer Jan-Baptist Meuleman of Oordegem, Belgium holds two types of sickle formerly used for harvesting. Date: 1950

WW2 poster, Good Workski! Carry Onski! Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

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

Folk in the traditional costume of Alsace Lorraine Date: circa 1910s

Monument, North Korean Communist Party, Pyongyang
View of the monument to the founding of the North Korean Workers Party, in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. Commissioned by Kim Il Sung (1912-1994)

White daisies and sickle on a cutout greetings card
White daisies entwined around a sickle on a cutout greetings card. circa 1890s

Occupations 1882 - English Farm Labourer holding a sickle. 1882

(A. ) Iron Grape, (B. )Toothed Sickle, (C. ) for k for Roasting
(A.) Iron Grape, (B.)Toothed Sickle, (C.) Fork forRoasting Meat - a view of the three implements against a white background. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Reaping With the Toothed Sickle, Toome Co Antrim - a man reaping corn in the field. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Peasant mowing a field of wheat with a sickle. Miniature. Ta
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Peasant mowing a field of wheat with a sickle. Miniature. Folio 46v

Iron tools. 11th-12th centuries
Iron tools. Scissors, key, knife, spoon auger, chisel, fishing spear and sickle. 11th-12th centuries. Neues Museum (New Museum). Berlin. Germany

Leonardesque model. Mobile ram boats. Model by Luigui Tursini, 1952-1943. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Revolt of peasants. Spain
Revolt of peasants in front of the Monastery of Poblet. Catalonia. Spain. Colored engraving

Farmers field work. Miniature. Ripoll Bible (also known as Farfa Bible). 11th century. Fol. 6 r. Vatican Apostolic Library. Italy

Harvesting wheat, c. 1800
Harvesting wheat with sickles, c. 1800 Date: C.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

Algiers, Algeria - Harvesting by Mechanical & handheld means Date: 1910

Ticinese Woman - Canton of Ticino, Switzerland
Elderly Ticinese Woman from the Republic and Canton of Ticino - the southernmost canton of Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Traditional Country Costumes - Serbia Date: circa 1903

Pier on the Volga by Kustodiev
Pier on the Volga - reproduction of a painting by Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (18781927) - Russian painter and stage designer. Date: circa 1925

Red blood cells
Example of normal red blood cells in an exhibit on what is sickle cell anaemia, in Origin of Species Gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

Raincoat, umbrella hat, brush hook, spade, hoe, sickle. Drawings show, in top illustration, a raincoat and a traditional conical hat; and in bottom illustration, four farm implements. Date 1878 Sep

India - The Harvest of corn Date: circa 1907

Statue below the Juche Tower, Pyongyang, North Korea
A statue depicting three members of the proletariat, one with a hammer, one with a sickle and one with a writing brush (an idealised worker, a peasant and a " working intellectual" )

Ancient British Druids pick Mistletoe
Ancient British Druid picks mistletoe with his Golden Sickle and makes an incantation toward the sky

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