EditorialBlacksmith using hammer and tongs to beat a piece of red-hot iron heated in a forge. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810.
EditorialExamples of 18th century bandages 1, bec-de-corbin tongs 2, bec-de-canne tongs 4, bullet-remover tongs 4, and various sutures 5-11. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.
EditorialCutlery, salad servers, sugar tongs, bread knife, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896.
EditorialKing David playing handbells with hammers from a 14th century manuscript of his psalms, with a vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the Peo...
EditorialMachinery for making cutlery: troughs of a grinding mill, tongs for pressing knife handles, pressing vice and spring drill. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Art...
EditorialInitial V: Saint Apollonia with a Book and Tongs; Master of the Llangattock Hours, Flemish, active about 1450 - 1460; Bruges (illuminated), Belgium, Europe; 1450s; Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 26.4 x 18.4 cm (10 3/...
EditorialAllegorical costume as the element fire, with skirt and shawl decorated with flame pattern, bellows, tongs and brush on her belt. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from "L'Art du Travestissement" (The Art of Fancy Dress), Paris, c.18...
EditorialA Romanised Briton and a Feryllt, a metallurgist, chemist and botanist. The Briton in a plaid cloak and sagum, carrying a two-handed sword, cleddyv deuddwrn. Feryllt in green robe holding hammer and tongs before an anvil. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Ha...