EditorialMemorabilia from Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars to go under hammer at huge Hollywood auction
EditorialPhotograph - Hecla Electrics Pty Ltd, Workers Shaping Metal Components, circa 1930, Photograph of male factory workers plating metal components of Hecla heaters, possibly in the Little Bourke Street Hecla factory, Melbourne. Facings for 'Century' model...
EditorialPhotograph - Hecla Electrics Pty Ltd, Factory Workers in the Plating Department, circa 1925, Black and white photograph of male factory workers plating appliance components at a Hecla manufacturing plant, probably the Little Bourke Street premises. Alo...
EditorialThe forge on deck night of August 9th preparing the iron plating for capstan, Forge stove on the deck of the Great Eastern Sailer on August 9, 1865, after the tear of the transatlantic cable, Signed: G. Mc., Culloch lith., from a drawing by R. Dudley; ...
EditorialA complete treatise on the electro-deposition of metals. Comprising electro-plating and galvanoplastic operations, the deposition of metals by the contact and immersion processes, the coloring of metals, the methods of grinding and polishing .. : Langb...
EditorialHalf Model or a 12-Gun Brig, Polychromed plating mold model (starboard) of a two-mast. Eight artillery gates plus two in the fence, all on one deck. Forepart worked out with galleon and figurehead of a gilt curl, the crane beam is missing. Elliptical f...
EditorialModel of a Ship's Rail with Armor Plating, Model of a piece of ship's wall with parapet plates, on groundboard, incomplete. Only one of the eight parapet plates has been found, it stands with two pins in the pot lid and is held upright by a support at ...
EditorialChicago Stock Exchange Building: Two Elevator Enclosure Grilles, with Base Plates and Side Support Bars. Adler & Sullivan, Architects; American, 1883-1896. Date: 1893-1894. Dimensions: Overall size of each assembly: 214.6 ? 109.8 ? 6 cm. Cast and w...
EditorialPlatter with a Fish, 4th?5th century, Late Roman, Bronze, silver overlaid, Overall: 7/8 x 15 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (2.2 x 38.2 x 18.3 cm), Metalwork-Bronze, In his great encyclopedia, the first-century Roman writer Pliny reports that tin plating, as seen o...
EditorialPair of Wall Lights; Attributed to Burchardt Precht, German, 1651 - 1738; about 1700; Sand-cast bronze with silver plating and mirror glass; Various, see extensions.
EditorialIncense burner (br?le-parfum), ca. 1775, French, Gilded and marbelized oak and beech, gilt-bronze, copper, tin and tin-plating, 40 ? 18 1/2 ? 18 1/2 in. (101.6 ? 47 ? 47 cm), Woodwork-Furniture, The word cassolette was current in the eighteenth century...
EditorialPlatter with a Fish, 4th?5th century, Late Roman, Bronze, silver overlaid, Overall: 7/8 x 15 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (2.2 x 38.2 x 18.3 cm), Metalwork-Bronze, In his great encyclopedia, the first-century Roman writer Pliny reports that tin plating, as seen o...
EditorialRoom divider with six panels made of a finely profiled walnut frame, strung with a roughened red woolen fabric. the hinges are well displayed in thumbnail. ca. 1690 - ca. 1710, silk walnut wood wool metal, gold plating, one panel: h 21 cm, Dollhouse, d...
EditorialPair of Wall Lights; Attributed to Burchardt Precht, German, 1651 - 1738; about 1700; Sand-cast bronze with silver plating and mirror glass; Various, see extensions.
EditorialELECTRO AND SILVER PLATING, SKETCHED AT THE WORKS OF MESSRS. ELKINGTON AND CO., VISITED BY H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES: LEFT IMAGE: SMALL STAMP, CENTRE IMAGE: ENTRANCE TO THE WORKS, RIGHT IMAGE: SOLDERING.