Silk Collection (page 21)

Discussion on merits of Smoking for Health reasons
First Johnnie: " Aw -why do you make your own cigarettes?" Second Ditto: " My-aw-doctor ordered me some light exercise." Date: 1894

Tom Norman - Auctioneer, raising his gavel
Tom Norman - Showmans Auctioneer, Valuer and Variety Agent from Dallington, East Sussex, raising his gavel. Date: circa 1910

Camel Caravan at the Caravaniserai Landikotal - NWFP
Camel Caravan at the Caravaniserai, Landikotal, NWFP en route from Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan. Date: circa 1920s

Valencia, Spain - The Llotja de la Seda
Valencia, Spain. The Llotja de la Seda (Lonja de la Seda or Silk Exchange) - a late Valencian Gothic style civil building in Valencia, Spain, built between 1482 and 1548

Beautifully dressed passengers on the Underground. As the card states: The Bakerloo & Piccadilly Tubes afford the maximum of speed, safety

Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

The Silk Road - Camel Train in Soviet Central Asia, crossing the desert. Date: 1933

Turkestan - Camel Trader passes below an archway
The Golden Road to Turkestan. Tourist Guide to Turkestan - (then in) Soviet Central Asia. Date: 1933

Vietnamese girl spinning silk by hand on a wheel. Date: circa 1907

Pretty Japanese girl and roll blind Date: circa 1912

Boyaryshnya - Boyar Wife - Russia
A Boyaryshnya - A Boyar (high ranking) Woman in a fine and expensive silken gown. Date: 1900

Design for Dress Silk or Print with vertical stripes. Gouache on drawing paper. Silver Studio. circa 1930

Design for Dress Silk or Print with Japanese figures

Design for Dress Silk or Print with leaves
Design for Dress Silk or Print with green and grey leaves. Watercolour and Graphite on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1928

Design for Woven Textile in grey and beige. Colour Pencil on tracing paper. Silver Studio. 1937

Design for dress silk or print with yellow flower. Pencil and watercolour on tracing paper on backing of plain detail paper. Silver Studio. 1937

Design for dress silk or print with rabbits, mice and lambs. Gouache and pencil on tracing paper over gouache and pencil on copy paper. Silver Studio. circa 1935

Design for dress silk or print with flowers. Watercolour on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1931

Design for dress silk or print with leaf pattern

Design for Dress silkor print with green flowers
Design for Dress silk or print with green flowers. Gouache on cartridge paper. Silver Studio. 1934

Glove knitted from the beard threads of the pen shell (Pin
Made in the 1700s from the beard threads of the pen shell (Pinna nobilis), a large Mediterranean mollusc

Archaeroattacus edwardsii, Indian silk moth
Indian silk moth from India. Specimen on display at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Bombax pentandrum, silk cotton
Illustration by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London

The Trojan War: Achilles Death. ca. 1470. Eighth cloth of the series, work of the Master of Co봩 vy, Henry or Conrard of Vulcop (active 1454-1479). Manufacturing of Tournai. Wool and silk

The Trojan War: Achilles Death. ca. 1470. Right scene. Detail of struggle of Achaeans and Trojans. Eighth cloth of the series, work of the Master of Co봩 vy

The Trojan War: Achilles Tent. ca. 1470. Detail of a squire of Hector. Sixth cloth of the series, work of the Master of Co봩 vy, Henry or Conrard of Vulcop (active 1454-1479)

The Seven Virtues: The Justice. ca. 1560 - 1570

The Trojan War: Achilles Tent. ca. 1470. Interview between Hector and Achilles and preparation of Hector for combat. Sixth cloth of the series, work of the Master of Co봩 vy

The History of Hannibal: Hannibals Oath. ca. 1570. Sacrifice and oath against the Romans in front of his father Hamilcar Barca. First cloth preserved in the series. Brussels manufacture

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