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Japanese-style wall hanging, circa 1900

Japanese-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Red lacquer wood frame with satin lambrequin, satin curtains, wooden mask, embroidered silk wall hangings, vase with ikebana. Planche 4. Croisee Genre Japonais. Chambranle (faux) bois laque rouge, dans la partie du haut formant lambrequin satin brode. Grands et petits rideaux satin brode, envers petite soie. Masque bois laque. Tenture murale soie brodee. Chromolithograph by Henry Sicard et A. Farradesche after an illustration by Ernest Foussier from his Nouveaux Mod??les de Tentures, Decorations de FenǦtres, New Models of Wall Hangings, Window Decorations, E. Thezard Fils, Librairie Speciale d'Architecture, Dourdan, France, 1900. Foussier (1859-1917) was a French architect and interior decorator who worked in Paris

© Florilegius

Lady Elizabeth ? Stanley Harbour

?Lady Elizabeth?, an iron barque of 1, 155 tons built by Robert Thompson Jr. of Southwick, Sunderland and launched on 4 June 1879. Damaged in a storm in 1912, she limped to Stanley where she grounded on Uraine Rock just off Volunteer Point, suffering a 6-foot (1.8 m) break in the hull and keel along with a 1-foot (30 cm) hole. She was deemed uneconomical to repair and used as a coal hulk until breaking loose in a storm and drifting to Whalebone cove, where she resides to this day, in the Falkland Islands. Date: 1984

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

Giant Ferris Wheel, Earls Court

Construction work began on the wheel in March 1894 and it was opened to passengers in July 1895. It had a diameter of 300ft, weighed 1, 100 tons and a complete revolution took around twenty minutes. The wheel got stuck in May 1896 when passengers were stranded for four and a half-hours. It was demolished in 1906-7 because it was no longer profitable. Date: 1900

© Mary Evans Picture Library / Peter & Dawn Cope Collection