EditorialInside the windows of the £7.2 million GBP worlds most expensive Advent calendar containing daily Christmas countdown surprises valued at £5.2 million GBP ($6.9 million USD)
EditorialModel of a Bread Oven, Model of a mechanical baking oven on a floorboard. It is a box-shaped construction that can be dismantled in two halves to show the inside. In the middle of the long front is a fire with an underground ashtray. Inside, the hot ga...
EditorialQuadrant, Two almost identical clinometers to measure the maximum slope of a swinging ship. Both are brass, mounted on a wooden back plate with the center of the bow at the top. The scale on the arc runs from 0 ? to 45 ? each side. The outer edge of th...
EditorialTwo Quadrants, Two almost identical clinometers to the maximum slope of a winding ship. Both are brass, mounted on a wooden back plate with the center of the bow at the top. The scale on the arc runs from 0 ? to 45 ? each side. The outer edge of the ar...
EditorialParts for a moon pointer Star astral moon pointer and almanach (title on object), Different parts for a moon pointer with instructions for use. The parts consist of three discs, a sundial and a moon pointer., Hendrik Kloekhoff (mentioned on object), 17...
EditorialSheath for a pipe, silver mounted, silver mounted. Including a face with pointer?, anonymous, Netherlands (possibly), 1700 - 1800, silver (metal), wood (plant material), h 6.2 cm ? w 30.5 cm ? d 3.3 cm.
EditorialShip Compass, Compass in a compass house. The glass has disappeared. The cylindrical copper compass boiler is weighted with a lead ring around it, which can be adjusted in height. The cardan ring has been replaced by an unusual suspension: the entire b...
EditorialPolarizing Filter, Polarizing filter in wooden box. The filter consists of two parts: one is a brass tube with a round disc at each end, one of which is designed as an eyepiece. A wood-mounted prism is fitted in the tube. The other part is also a brass...
EditorialQuadrant, Two almost identical clinometers to measure the maximum slope of a swinging ship. Both are brass, mounted on a wooden back plate with the center of the bow at the top. The scale on the arc runs from 0 ? to 45 ? each side. The outer edge of th...
Editorial" Schulklopfer's hammer" and pointer (Torah-finger) from Poland. The " Schulklopfer" summoned worshipers to the synagogue by knocking on their doors. Hammer: wood, L: 43,8 cm; pointer: wood and glass,L: 25,4 cm.
EditorialBook of the Dead: The papyrus of Hunefer. Above Hunefer kneeling before a table of offerings in adoration, in presence of fourteen gods, seated in order of judges. Below the Judgement, or weighing of the conscience; the jakal-headed Anubis examines the...
EditorialFive Studies of a French Pointer. Dated: 1825/1826. Dimensions: sheet: 14 x 20.6 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.). Medium: graphite with touches of gray wash on wove paper.
EditorialLid of a case. A board game based on the geography of France. There are eighty-six lithographed maps, engraved by Massuet with the lettering by L. Aubert pere, each on a card measuring 135 x 82 mm and divided into five suits. There is a spindle with a ...
EditorialA board game based on the geography of France. There are eighty-six lithographed maps, engraved by Massuet with the lettering by L. Aubert pere, each on a card measuring 135 x 82 mm and divided into five suits. There is a spindle with a wooden base a...
EditorialLid of a case. A board game based on the geography of France. There are eighty-six lithographed maps, engraved by Massuet with the lettering by L. Aubert pere, each on a card measuring 135 x 82 mm and divided into five suits. There is a spindle with a ...
EditorialZodiacal figure and diagram. Guild Book of the Barber Surgeons of York. England [York]; 1486, with additions to 1768. [Whole opening] Drawing of a male figure, as influenced by the zodiacal signs. Right; a circular zodiacal lunar scheme, with the rotar...
EditorialA board game based on the geography of France. There are eighty-six lithographed maps, engraved by Massuet with the lettering by L. Aubert pere, each on a card measuring 135 x 82 mm and divided into five suits. There is a spindle with a wooden base a...
EditorialA board game based on the geography of France. There are eighty-six lithographed maps, engraved by Massuet with the lettering by L. Aubert pere, each on a card measuring 135 x 82 mm and divided into five suits. There is a spindle with a wooden base a...
EditorialFive Studies of a French Pointer. Dated: 1825/1826. Dimensions: sheet: 14 x 20.6 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.). Medium: graphite with touches of gray wash on wove paper.
EditorialThe Spanish Pointer. Date/Period: Ca. 1799. Drawing. Watercolor, graphite, and pen with brown ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper. Height: 394 mm (15.51 in); Width: 533 mm (20.98 in).
EditorialFive Studies of a French Pointer. Dated: 1825/1826. Dimensions: sheet: 14 x 20.6 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.). Medium: graphite with touches of gray wash on wove paper.
EditorialTHE DOG SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE, LONDON, UK, 1876: 1. Mr. Bird's Bloodhound "Brutus." 4. Mr. Ray's Bloodhound "Baron." 101. Mr. Murchison's St. Bernard "Mentor." 132; Mr. Gresham's St. Bernard "Shah." 78. Mr. Grab's Mastiff "Granby, Junior." 751. Mr...
EditorialBook of the Dead: The papyrus of Hunefer. Above Hunefer kneeling before a table of offerings in adoration, in presence of fourteen gods, seated in order of judges. Below the Judgement, or weighing of the conscience; the jakal-headed Anubis examines the...
Editorial" Schulklopfer's hammer" and pointer (Torah-finger) from Poland. The " Schulklopfer" summoned worshipers to the synagogue by knocking on their doors. Hammer: wood, L: 43,8 cm; pointer: wood and glass,L: 25,4 cm.