Sizes Collection

Tuba on its Own
There are three sizes of tuba - the smallest is the Euphonium : the Bombardon is the most usual; there is also the Contrabass Tuba, used in military bands and by Wagner. Date: 1897

The Eggs of British Birds -- assorted eggs of different colours and sizes. Date: 1894

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1940
The weeks food facts No. 6. If you eat more than you need, you are wasting food as surely as if you had thrown it away. So eat what you need, but no more. Buy wisely and cater strictly

Post Office Radio Telephone Services and Fisheries
A wonderful, original, poster map showing Post Office Radio Telephone Services commissioned by the General Post Office and designed by Leslie MacDonald Gill, 1935

Biblical Commentary (Fragment)
Fragment of a leaf from a religious text, probably a biblical commentary, parchment. Contains a commentary on and text from Romans

Comic postcard, A row of six bottoms in swimsuits at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Soldier in the British Army, WW2 - They only issue two sizes of shirts in the Army, large --- and very large! Date: circa 1940s

Chinese money changer cutting silver ingots into different sizes for payment, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Advertisement, H O Strong, Guards for Circular Saws
Advertisement, H O Strong & Co, Norfolk Works, Bristol - Guards for Circular Saws. 19th century

Round and Flat Watercolour Sable Brushes in Albata. circa 1880s

Diagram showing German air-dreadnought, zeppelin compared to a section of buildings in Piccadilly London. Date: 1915

Japanese Parasols
Five Japanese women in traditional costume, three of which hold flat circular parasols of varying sizes. Date: late 19th century

MARKET AT MIDDELBURG
Stalls of all shapes and sizes fill the town square of Middelburg, in front of the 16th century Town Hall : this was a Hanse trading centre in former days. Date: circa 1880

Advert for Charles H. Baber ladies footwear 1929
Elegant ladies footwear for widths - all fittings made to the specification of your foot. 1929

Church Furniture, Plate 166, showing candle holders, candlesticks, lecterns, boxes, vases and other items. Date: circa 1880s

A selection of British Shells Date: circa 1920s

CHAMELEON - on human finger, to show scale. (Brookesia minima ). Madagascar

Football Blocks Ad
Football Blocks A device to protect a footballers shins. Supplied in five sizes

Petite fashion 1930 - Dignity for the small woman
Harrods advertisement promoting their range of petite sizes for women, particularly in the new floor length skirt lengths fashionable in 1930. 1930

Albums for scraps, cuttings, cards, Plate 181
Albums for scraps, newspaper cuttings, Christmas cards, etc, Plate 181. Date: circa 1880s

Best carbon block filters, Plate 40
Best carbon block filters fitted with anti-corrosive taps, Plate 40, for obtaining purified water in different locations. Date: circa 1880s

White earthenware, Plate 59, showing dishes, serving dishes, jugs, bowls and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Photograph Albums, Plate 180, showing a range of styles and sizes, patterned and plain. Date: circa 1880s

Stained, Painted, Engraved and Embossed Windows, Plate 164, showing a range of windows for churches, homes and other buildings. Date: circa 1880s

Superior Pressed, Engraved and Cut Glass, Plate 141, showing a range of jugs, basins, dishes, plates and containers in various styles and sizes. Date: circa 1880s

Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, Colorado, USA
A narrow gap between two sandstone masses forms the entrance to the Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, Colorado. The Garden contains strangely shaped isolated rocks of all shapes and sizes

Two sizes of pram -- a man pushing a pram containing a baby, and a little girl pushing a very small pram, perhaps containing her doll. Date: 1970s

Four frog acrobats on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Four frogs diving on a Christmas card
Four frogs diving into a river on a Christmas card, leaving their top hats behind. Date: circa 1890s

Five frogs in top hats on a Christmas card, with comic verse below. Date: circa 1890s

A Wire-Drawer
A wire drawer reducing rods and threads of wire to smaller sizes for use in manufacture Date: 1827

Biscuit Making C1860
Biscuits are produced in many shapes and sizes. Date: circa 1860

Children / Railings 1870
Seven children of varying sizes look through some railings at an interesting sight... Date: circa 1870?

Four bulldogs on a greetings card -- The Philosophers. With quotations (forming a four-line verse) from Lucretius, Hamlet, Kirke White and Democritus. Date: circa 1890s

National Childrens Home (NCH) Industrial School, Gravesend. Uniformed boys stand in front of a table bearing a large number of bells of different sizes. Date: 1890s

Boats of many sizes on a rough sea
Hand coloured. Illustration of boats of many sizes on a rough sea, some of them steam powered. There are people in smaller boats with oars.. Part of Box 365, Miscellaneous Part 1, Boswell collection

Atlas Moth - male (has feathery antennae used for searching females by their pheromones) - in hand - taken from a window of a house in the morning (its active at night) (Attacus atlas )

Taiga-forest canopy, mostly of pine trees. basin of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nat. reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Rafflesia - Flower prior to petals opening. (Rafflesia sp )

Msai GIRAFFE - x three, Giraffe peers over 2nd giraffes back with tongue out (Giraffa camelopardalis). Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, Africa

Termite Mounds
TERMITE MOUNDS. Australia

Birch Tree - Near river Serga, near Ekaterinburg, . Spring, Middle Urals, Russia

Making Chatties, Phini, Cyprus
Making Chatties (pottery jars / amphorae), Phini (Foini), Troodos Mountains, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Russian Basket Seller playing a whistle (to attract the attention of would-be basket purchasers). Date: 1902

Advert for Vani-Tred shoes 1941
Heavenly walking. Advertisement for Vani-Tred shoes, soft, billowy zephyr when you walk, you simply can t come down to earth with a bump; the hidden feature in Vani-Tred constrruction distributes

Camera and photography shop interior, Walton, Essex
Interior view of camera sales and professional photographers shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. A large array of different sizes and types of film are displayed behind the counter

Cairo, Egypt - Pot Seller
A pot seller in Cairo, Egypt with his wide selection of pottery in varied shapes and sizes. He sits in the open entrance to his shop and talks to a passing fresh water carrier / seller

Turkey - Basket Seller
A Basket Seller - Turkey

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