Spiral Collection (page 3)

Italy. Rome. Trajans Column. 2nd century
Italy. Rome. Trajans Column, 2nd century AD. Erected to commemorate the victory of Emperor Trajan in the Dacian Wars. Trajan Forum

Gold bracelets. Early Bronze Age. 1700-1100 BC
Smooth and spiral bracelets in gold. Early Bronze Age, 1700-1100 BC. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Circular bronze belt ornaments. Bronze Age. 1400 BC. Found at Vognserup Enge, near Holbaek. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Objects from Skeldal, central Jutland. 2000-1700 BC
Local made and imported objects from Skeldal, central Jutland. Bracelets, axes and necklaces. 2000-1700 BC. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Bronze Age. Belt ornaments. 700-500 A. C. National Museum of
Prehistoric. Art. Metal Age. Belt ornaments. Located : bog from Jutlandia, Denmark. 700-500 a.C. Bronze Age. National Museum of Denmark

Karlskirche or Church of St. Charles Borromeo (1716-1737)
Baroque Art. Karlskirche or Church of St. Charles Borromeo (1716-1737). Column on the left side of the church, decorated with spirals. Detail depicting scenes from the life of St. Charles Borromeo

Italy. Rome. Column of Trajan
Italy. Rome. Trajans Column. 2nd century A.D. Forum of Trajan

Trajans Column. Relief depicting scenes of Dacian War (1101-106 A.D.) Forum of Trajan. Rome. Italy

Nautilus sp
Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862-1951). Watercolour on paper. Alice Woodward was taught science and illustration by her father Henry Woodward

Rasenia uralensi, ammonite
A fossil ammonite from the Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridge clay, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. An ammonite has a coiled, chambered shell and is an extinct mollusc

German plane attacked by British anti-aircraft gun, WW1
A British scouting biplane, attacked by machine gun fire from a larger German aeroplane over Belgian territory, witnesses the enemy plane spiral to earth in flames after being hit by anti-aircraft

Young woman with notebook and pen
Young woman with shorthand notebook and pen -- a typical secretary. circa 1960s

Advert for Foxs puttees stockings 1916
Foxs puttees non - fray spiral puttees stockings. Date: 1916

Advert for Foxs spiral puttees 1902
Foxs puttees for men, comfortable support spiral wraps closely fitted from ankle to the knee, can be worn under your trousers. Date: 1902

Advert for Foxs puttees stockings 1903
Foxs patent spiral puttees. Are so shaped as to wind on spirally from ankle to knee and to fit closley to the leg with even pressure without any turns or twists. Date: 1903

French Circus Trick
A sensational turn at a French circus : A woman is placed inside the globe, which is then pierced with swords and rolled down a spiral shoot! Date: 1930s

The Spiral Railway - Franco-British Exhibition - White City, Shepherds Bush, London. Date: 1908

Beautiful Arab / Islamic Architecture - Tunisia with three women and a young child surrounding fine marble fountain in the centre of an elegant arcade courtyard with twisted spiral columns Date

Spiral wire simulating six-footed motion. Hargrave Slide 6

Spiral wire simulating leech and centripede motion. Hargrave Slide 5

Spiral wire trochoiding artificial fishes. Hargrave Slide 4

Eiffel Tower. tour of people climbing spiral staircase. eng. 1889 (Acc.No.7202) Date: 1889

Aturia sp. nautilus
Watercolour by Alice B. Woodward, c. 1880. Drawings 1 and 2 have had their shells removed, drawing 3 is a cross section of the shell and drawing 4 is an apical (open end) view

Shell
Specimen shell held at the Natural History Museum, London

Strombus luhuanus, red-mouthed stromb
Watercolour 392 by Thomas Watling, entitled Gung-e-ra-nere, from the Watling Collection

Plate 37 from Sebas Thesauri
Illustration from A Sebas Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descripttio, Vol 3, 1758. This plate shows the way Seba displayed the specimens in the drawers of his shell cabinet

Nautilus pompilius, nautilus
Specimen shell of the nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), which has been sectioned to show body chamber (largest section), septa (individual chambers) and siphuncle (tube canal)

Aegocrioceras quadratus, ammonite
This Lower Cretaceous crytocone ammonite displays whorls which do not touch each other but form an open spiral

Sir Hans Sloanes collection of shells
Plate 5 from Arhtur MacGregors Hans Sloane, 1994. Shell specimens showing Sir Hans Sloanes catalogue numbers

Geological timescale
A diagram showing geological time on earth as expressed in a spiral starting with earth in a molten state and progressing through deserts to the rise of mountain ranges and volcanoes

Collection of shells
Plate 83 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, (1758)

Collection of fossilised molluscs
Plate 21 from Gideon Algernon Mantells Fossils of the South Downs, 1822

Vertigo sp. marsh whorl snails
No.14 V. antivertigo, No.15 V. moulinsiana, No.16 V. pygmaea, No.19 V. pusilla, No.20 V. anguistor, No.21 V. edentula. Plate 4 from The Collectors Manual of British Shells by L E Adams (1896)

Charonia rubicunda, red australwelk
Watercolour 387 by Thomas Watling, entitled Nag-ga-rang, from the Watling Collection

Aulacostephanus autissiodorensis, ammonite
Shown here is an Upper Jurassic macroconch (larger form) ammonite. Despite some damage to the shell, the fine ribbing is still apparent

Tibia insulae-chorab, Arabian tibia
Apair of Arabian tibia shells (Tibia insulae-chorab), This amazing, pointed gastropod can be found in the Indian Ocean in intertidal regions upto 50 metres deep

Telescopium telescopium, telescope shell
A pair of telescope shells (Telescopium Telescopium). This amazingly symetrical, marine gastropod originates from the Indo-Pacific

Pleuroploca trapezium, trapezium horse conch
A pair of trapezium horse conch (Pleuroploca trapezium). This marine gastropod originates from the Indo-Pacific

Trochus niloticus, top shell
A pair of top shells (Trochus niloticus). Top shells are herbivorous marine gastropods, they occur throughout the Indo-Pacific

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

Murex pecten, Venus comb
A pair of Venus combs (Murex pecten). This heavily ornamented gastropod has a row of spines making it look like a comb. They can be found throughout the Indo-Pacific

Fossilised naticid gastropods and leaves
Watercolour showing two views of a naticid gastropod and a fossilised leaf encased in a nodule by Sarah Stone (c. 1760-1844) from the collection of Sir Ashton Lever

Achatinella sp. Oahu tree snails

Nostroceras, ammonite

Snake by Albertus Seba
Tab 54, depicting a snake from Thesaurus, by Albertus Seba

Ammonite internal cast
Shown here is an internal cast of a Jurassic ammonite clearly depicting individually preserved chambers within the coiled shell

Plate 14 from Coquilles Univalves Marines by Duclos (1835). Annotated: Genera Strombe

Partula affinis, P. otaheitana, French Polynesian tree snail
Plate 29 from Studies on the Genus Partula by Henry Edward Crampton (1916). Found only in French Polynesia this entire genus is on the brink of extinction due to predation from the introduced rosy

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