EditorialHendrik Lemens, recipient of the city of Antwerp, Copper medal with two holes in the middle. Obverse: castle, crowned by a double-headed eagle with an inscription and a laurel wreath. Reverse: Justice with scales and olive branch in right and purse in ...
EditorialPhotograph - 'Canteen Corner', France, Sergeant John Lord, World War I, 1916-1917, Photograph which possibly depicts Australian soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, Bernard Sidney Gordon. Gordon is recorded as being in Belgium at a similar time as the...
EditorialHonorable KNIL with scabbard and support, Honorable from the Royal Dutch Indian Army, awarded on behalf of King Willem III to K.F. Schultze, Captain of the Infantry at Palembang in 1859. The brass hilt is cast, gilded and adorned with buttons, curls an...
EditorialKeys, Some 19 keys, probably from the recipient general, having served to open the cash boxes of the special recipients. Tied to boards (labels) with the names of Schoonhoven No 1 with two keys, No 2 with three keys, Gouda No. 6 with three keys, Dordre...
EditorialAugust Malmstr?m, Ingeborg Receiving News of Hjalmar's Death from Orvar Odd, Ingeborg recipient of the Orvar Odd notification of Hjalmars death, painting, 1859, oil on canvas, Height, 181 cm (71.2 inches), Width, 143 cm (56.2, inch), Signed, A. Malmstr...
Editorial? ??? ?????? ?, Record of the Following One's Ancestor Studio, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), dated 1345, China, Handscroll; ink on paper, 10 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (27.3 x 96 cm), Calligraphy, Zheng Yuanyou (Chinese, 1292?1364), This text, written when scholars ...
EditorialMeketre papyrus, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1975 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280,), 1919?20, Papyrus, ink, H. 26 cm (10 1/4 in.), W. 16 cm (6 5/16 in.), This letter was written by Netjeriuhem to...
EditorialWomen baker in chiton, before her a recipient with dough. Terracotta (last quarter 6th BCE) from Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece. Height 13 cm CA 241.
EditorialLieut. F.A. De Pass, V.C.; 34th Poona Horse.' Frank Alexander de Pass VC (April 26, 1887 - November 25, 1914) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was the first person of the Jewish faith and the first Indian Army officer to receive the V...
EditorialAlice lunches at Westminster. Alice talking to Humpty Dumpty. Redvers Buller, a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, is represented as Humpty Dumpty. The Westminster Alice ... Illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould. London ...
EditorialJ. McCudden sitting in a SE5 biplane'. James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM (28 March 1895 – 9 July 1918). A fighter pilot of the First World War, he was recipient of the Victoria Cross. With his six British medals and one French...
EditorialLieut. F.A. De Pass, V.C.; 34th Poona Horse.' Frank Alexander de Pass VC (April 26, 1887 - November 25, 1914) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was the first person of the Jewish faith and the first Indian Army officer to receive the V...
EditorialHannah Rosbotham (1858 - 1935), an assistant schoolmistress who rescued five pupils from a schoolroom, when a severe storm struck the town of Sutton, St.Helens, England, on the 14th October, 1881. Queen Victoria conferred the Albert Medal on Hannah Ro...
EditorialLance-Corporal David Finlay, V.C., 2nd bn. Black Watch. David Finlay VC (20 January 1893 – 21 January 1916) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross. On 9 May 1915 near Rue du Bois, France, Lance-Corporal Finlay led a bombing party of 12 men in...
EditorialMajor J.B. McCudden, V.C.' James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM (28 March 1895 – 9 July 1918). A fighter pilot of the First World War, he was recipient of the Victoria Cross. With his six British medals and one French one, McCudd...
EditorialWomen baker in chiton, before her a recipient with dough. Terracotta (last quarter 6th BCE) from Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece. Height 13 cm CA 241.
EditorialThe Gift of Anathapindada, Kushan period, 2nd?3rd century, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Schist with traces of gold foil, 9 5/8 x 9 in. (24.4 x 22.9 cm), Sculpture, The identification of the subject of this relief as the Gift of Anathapindada ...
EditorialTiraz Textile Fragment, dated A.H. 320/ A.D. 932?33, Attributed to Iraq, Linen; plain weave, embroidered in silk, Textile a: H. 7 in. (17.8 cm), Textiles-Embroidered, Inscribed textiles are called tiraz, from the Persian word for 'embroidery.' Many wer...
EditorialTiraz Textile Fragment, ca. 991?1031, Attributed to Iraq, Linen; plain weave, embroidered in silk, Textile: H. 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm), Textiles-Embroidered, Inscribed textiles are called tiraz, from the Persian word for 'embroidery.' Many were produced in...
EditorialTiraz with Medallions, 8th?9th century, Attributed to Egypt, Wool; tapestry weave, Textile: H. 8 in. (20.3 cm), Textiles-Woven, Inscribed textiles are called tiraz, from the Persian word for 'embroidery.' Many were produced in royal workshops and prese...
Editorial? ??? ?????? ?, Record of the Following One's Ancestor Studio, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), dated 1345, China, Handscroll; ink on paper, 10 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (27.3 x 96 cm), Calligraphy, Zheng Yuanyou (Chinese, 1292?1364), This text, written when scholars ...
EditorialMeketre papyrus, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981?1975 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280,), 1919?20, Papyrus, ink, H. 26 cm (10 1/4 in.), W. 16 cm (6 5/16 in.), This letter was written by Netjeriuhem to...
EditorialGerald Graham (1831-1899). British military, recipient of the Victoria Cross. Portrait. Engraving by Rico. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1884.
EditorialMaria Anna Thekla Mozart " das Baesle" (1758-1841). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's beloved cousin from Augsburg, recipient of the famous and funny " Baesle-letters". Pencil, ca. 1777.
EditorialWomen baker in chiton, before her a recipient with dough. Terracotta (last quarter 6th BCE) from Tanagra, Boeotia, Greece. Height 13 cm CA 241.
EditorialLion-rhyton painted terracotta from Tello. Liquid was poured into the recipient through the opening in the back, and poured out through the lion's mouth. From Kueltepe, period of the Assyrian colonies in Cappadocia, Turkey (19th-18th BCE) AM 1517.