EditorialModel of a 40-gun warship Model of a 40-Gun Ship, Polychromed, fully detailed construction model to be taken apart in three layers, with solid wood under dense smooth-edged skin. Forty-eight gun ports spread over three decks. Decks on five levels: smal...
EditorialModel of a Masting Sheer, Model of a mast crane, lifting a mast, on a floorboard. The legs lean forward and are held back by two braces and four stays attached to bollards. The foot in which the braces are positioned is adjustable in two positions. Beh...
EditorialModel of a Masting Sheer, Model of a mast stand on a ground board representing a bank. The two legs, connected at the top by a heavy crossbar and a hood, lean forward and are held back by two braces and six stays. The legs are on a wall with a semicirc...
EditorialMap of the coasts of the Adriatic Sea Pas-Caart of the Weder zytsche Sea coasts of Soo from Italia as Dalmatia and Griecken In the Golff of Venetien (title on object), Map from the coasts of the Adriatic Sea, three betting cards, bottom left one from C...
EditorialModel of a Ship's Galley, Model of a ship galley on a deck between two bites. The deck is covered with brass at the location of the galley, the chimney protrudes through a part of the deck above it, which is indicated to be the width of three boards an...
EditorialModel of a Masting Sheer, Model of a mast crane, lifting a mast, on a floorboard. The legs lean forward and are held back by two braces and four stays attached to bollards. The foot in which the braces are positioned is adjustable in three positions. B...
EditorialModel of a 90-Gun Ship of the Line, Testified block model. Seventy-six pieces of artillery spread over three decks, decks on five levels: cow bridge, lower deck, intermediate deck, deck deck and half deck with corridors, upper campanche. The figure of ...
EditorialLedger - Betting, Randwick Racecourse, 1930, This betting ledger was used by bookmaker Reg McKay at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, NSW, in 1930. The bets are recorded in pencil in columns headed by the relevant horse's name. It includes the A.J.C.Chelm...
EditorialSixty miles north of London lies Newmarket, a town of 10.000 inhabitants and half as many horses.There are 58 training stables, 49 stud farms, an auction paddock of 1766 and 25 regular horse shoers and 6 veterinaries.The troubles of betting.
EditorialChinese gamblers. The Costume of China. Illustrated in forty-eight c. William Miller: London, 1805. Chinese gamblers with fighting quails. The figure smoking a pipe, holds in his hand some Chinese money threaded on a string; the man with a feather behi...
EditorialThe skeleton of Death rides with a man toward the betting post on a racetrack, while children play a game of lotto. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.
EditorialEnglish Georgian dandies betting on the monkey at a monkey-baiting dogfight. Tom and Jerry sporting their blunt on the phenomenon Monkey Jacco Maccacco at the Westminster Pit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cru...
EditorialView of the Regency gents betting on the St. Leger horse race at Doncaster race track, 1825. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Mo...
EditorialWoman in costume made from betting stubs, les tickets, at the horse races, with skirt, pantaloons, headdress and reins decorated with betting stubs. Lithograph by unknown artist with pochoir stencil handcolouring from "Nos Travestis" (Our Fancy Dress C...
EditorialSixty miles north of London lies Newmarket, a town of 10.000 inhabitants and half as many horses.There are 58 training stables, 49 stud farms, an auction paddock of 1766 and 25 regular horse shoers and 6 veterinaries.The troubles of betting.