EditorialSquare bottle with caricatures of the trade speculation of 1720, Square bottle of porcelain with a narrow, spreading neck, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, purple, brown, black and gold. Two representations on the wall twice: a Europea...
EditorialThe floating batteries of the British Navy at Gibraltar, 1782. A barge with 210 cannons on two tiers, and another single-tier barge, designed by the French engineer d'Arcon to bombard the town. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderb...
EditorialWORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long. It was manufactured by Krupp, whose daughter was named the piece and designed by the engineer RAUSENBERGER...