EditorialBreastplate of a harness with decorations, Breastplate, iron, blank, made of three parts, the edges of the neck and armcuts are wired, flanged around and riveted to the inside of the breastplate. Iron buckles riveted under the edge of the neckline. Str...
EditorialHeaddress, 19th century, Germany, W?rttenberg, Germany, Wide wired halo of black net embroidered with black silk. Beaded head band of blue, gold and black beads. Back of crown flat gilt wire and colored jewels over gilt foil, loops of figured black sat...
EditorialHood of a Cope, 19th century, Spain, Silk in satin weave, lining is recent, braid in pattern in gilt metal and yellow silk floss, fringe of yellow silk wrapped with gilt metal with ornaments made of thin gauge metal in various shapes, embossed (brass c...
EditorialA design by Paquin. 'A new and very pretty skirt which is suitable for wearing at the sea-side, of lavender blue piqué, made for ... Mademoiselle Cécile Sorel. Width is given to the dress by the machine stictched folds which are left loose a little b...
EditorialDouble Horn in F / B-flat, 1904?19, Erfurt, Germany, German, Brass, nickel-silver, Height: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm), Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-horn, Eduard Kruspe (German, Erfurt 1831?1919 Erfurt), The double horn was developed in cooperation with the horn pl...
EditorialDouble Horn in F / B-flat, 1904?19, Erfurt, Germany, German, Brass, nickel-silver, Height: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm), Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-horn, Eduard Kruspe (German, Erfurt 1831?1919 Erfurt), The double horn was developed in cooperation with the horn pl...
EditorialA brown horse with a white stripe on its nose standing next to a wired fence. Its head is over the fence and it is standing in green grass. In the background are some trees.
EditorialTwelve-wired bird-of-paradise, Seleucidis melanoleucus (Paradisea nigricans). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822.