Smooth Collection (page 4)

Smooth hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaena.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Smooth-branched scottia, Scottia laevis.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Sydenham Edwards The Botanical Register, London, Ridgway, 1833

Smooth-billed ani, Crotophaga ani, and Amazonian white-tailed trogon, Trogon viridis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

Smooth Chinese hawthorn, Crataegus glabra.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine1819, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

Long and round rough-headed poppies, and smooth-headed poppy.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Smooth-leaved michaelmas daisy, Aster laevigatus.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine

SPAIN. Barcelona. City Hall. Detail. Printed smooth glass painted in grisaille, glazed and baked in fire. Deposit by Casa Noguera-Vintr󮠍 odernism. Glass window

India - Barabar Caves, outside and entrance ( BC), Gaya
Black and white. An ornate doorway carved into a smooth rock face. Four people standing outside.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 222 and 54. Date: circa 1890s

Advertisement for Decoltene liquid hair remover, which stresses that the vogue for decollete and transparent sleeve makes the smooth underarm a matter of importance to the woman who prides herself

Fox Terrier
A Fox Terrier, seated at the end of a sofa. Date: 1928

Advertisement for Remington shavers -- three models posing as a happy family (J Fenton, Sarah Branch and Jane Hancock). 1959

Advertisement for Knights Castile soap -- female model (Sandra Paul) holding a pair of nylon stockings. 1959

Common smooth-newt, Lissotriton punctatus. Woodcut from Thomas Bell, A history of British Reptiles. Date: 1839

Crystal balls are produced by grinding and polishing quartz (silicon dyoxide) cystal into spheres

Dominican copal
Piece of Dominican copal. Quaternary less than 2 million years old. Copal can be distinguished from amber by the alcohol test

Mustelus canis, smooth dogfish
A baby smooth dogfish (Mustelus canis). These small members of the shark familly can be found in the western Atlantic from Massachusetts to northern Argentina and in the Gulf of Mexico

Parkinsonia dorsetensis, ammonite
This ammonite has an evolute shell and is displaying complex suture lines. Specimen originates from the Middle Jurassic

Poa pratensis, smooth meadow-grass
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Africano Sanguigno, marble
Polished specimen of the metamorphic rock marble from a ruin of ancient Rome

Turbo argyrostoma, turban shell
A pair of turban shells (Turbo argyrostoma). This shallow water gastropod is named after the resemblance it bears to the Sikh headdress, it is widely spread across the Indo-Pacific

Cypraea argus, hundred-eyed cowrie
A pair of hundred-eyed cowries (Cypraea argus). A marine gastropod found across the Indo-Pacific. The name hundred-eyed refers to the particular type of shell pattern

Lambis lambis, common spider conch
A pair of common spider conch (Lambis lambis). This heavilly ornamented gastropod, has large shell projections, it originates from the Western Indo-Pacific

Corals
Specimens of rough and polished coral from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Birthstone Series: Sardonyx
A specimen of Sardonyx, a variety of quartz, from the Natural History Museum, London. Sardonyx is the birthstone for the month of August (along with Peridot). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Panthera tigris balica, Balinese tiger
Tiger skin from Bali. Specimen held at The Natural History Museum, London

Panthera tigris sondaica, Javan tiger
Tiger skin from Java. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Hematite group
A group of hematite

Panthera pardus pardus, African leopard
Photograph of an African leopard skin specimen from West Africa

Insects in amber
Insects trapped and preserved within in amber. Amber is fossilised tree resin

Sapphire
A six-rayed star blue sapphire. Sapphires derives from the corundum mineral group which is the second hardest group known

Moodstone cut as cabochons. A cabachon is a highly polished convex-cut gem

Opal doublets
Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass)

Panthera tigris sumatrae, Sumatran tiger
Photograph of a Sumatran tiger skin specimen. Collection number 1935.4.6.3

Ammonite selection
Three ammonites as follows: (Left to right) Oistoceras wrighti; Asteroceras obtusum (zonal index species); Tragophylloceras loscombi all specimens originate from the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis

Amber on a Norfolk beach
Amber is a fossilised form of tree resin. Baltic amber is occasionally washed up on the beaches of eastern Britain

Rice - threshing floor - Rangoon -.about 50 feet square, we could see what they had been watering down carefully yesterday afternoon, was cow dung, smooth and hard as cement. Date: 1952

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Along the smooth rock Seward Highway; countryside is covered with spindly spruce and cedar. Date: 1952

Smyth & Rice present Willie Collier in his new farce Mr. Smooth. Date c1899

Fashionable young lady in an outfit by Molyneux
Fashionable young lady dressed for the lido in a pyjama-style outfit by Molyneux, with a printed silk fabric for the top, and smooth pink crepe for the trousers. 1924

Man Twirls Moustache
An amorous man twirls his moustache -- good luck to him! Date: early 20th century?

SUN LOTION
Heatwave beauty hint - beware of blistered arms! Sun tan oil rubbed into the arms and neck before exposure to the sun, will avoid blistering and produce a smooth, even tan! Date: 1930s

Two St Bernards in Snow
Two huge dogs, one Smooth Haired and one Rough, stand in snow on a mountain side hoping for someone to rescue, although they have no brandy. Date: 1919

Roman road and Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy
A cobbled Roman road leading to the Forum Romanum, with the Arch of Titus in the distance, in Rome, Italy

Chihuahua Molimor Talentina
Smooth-haired chihuahua Molimor Talentina

A Vase of Flowers
An airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith in a very 1980s style, depicting a vase of flowers

The Salt Marshes of Cley-next-the-Sea
Season - Salt Marshes. The distinctive outline of the windmill at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk forms the atmospheric backdrop for two Ringed Plovers

Prize Winning Dogs at the Alexandra Palace Show, 1876
Engraving showing nine of the prize-winning dogs at the Alexandra Palace Dog Show, London, 1876. The dogs shown are (top to bottom)

Camp Du Drap D or
(anglicised as Field of the Cloth of Gold) - Henry VIII meets with Francois I near Calais to smooth out their differences : each seeks to out-impress the other

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