EditorialTangent Sight, Attachment or Orientation Mounted to the Back of the Slot Elevation, The support is provided with a hook that engages in a square notch in the lock elevation, and is tightened with a screw from behind. It is a short square iron bar on to...
EditorialMarine battle plaque by Captain Lambert for Algiers, Mother-of-pearl plaque, basrelief engraved with caption. In the center and on the right some (Dutch) ships with hung people and people in the sea, with on the left a city (Algiers) and hills in the b...
EditorialTangent Sight, Attachment or Orientation Mounted to the Back of the Slot Elevation, The support is provided with a hook that engages in a square notch in the lock elevation, and is tightened with a screw from behind. A short square iron bar on top of a...
EditorialFolding fan with leaf, with a gouache on the front 'Psyche in the palace of Amor' and on the back a symmetrical combination of flowers and landscapes, on a turtle frame, Folding fan with a thin leather leaf, that a l'anglaise is placed on the frame of ...
EditorialTangent Sight, Attachment, or Orientation Mounted to the Back of the Slot Elevation, for this the support is provided with a cam which engages in the lock elevation and is tightened with a screw from behind. The set-up bar is a short square iron bar, o...
EditorialTangent Sight, Attachment, or Target, which is mounted against the rear of the lock elevation or lock support, it follows that it could only be used for guns with a lock support that protrude beyond the highest decorative wire strap. The bracket of the...
EditorialCassetta frame, early 20th century, American, New York (?), Basswood back frame with rosewood upper moldings and ivory, tortoiseshell, oak and maple veneers. Carved. Sight edge: simplified lotus leaf, ebonized. Frieze: ivory stringing, maple and oak ve...
EditorialPhotograph - 'Football Ground Ismalia', Egypt, Captain Edward Albert McKenna, World War I, 1914-1915, One of 139 photographs in an album from World War I likely to have been taken by Captain Edward Albert McKenna. The photographs include the 7th Battal...
EditorialLouis XIV style Ovolo frame, ca. 1860, French, Oak back frame with lime upper moldings. Carved, gilt; brown-red bole. , Overall, 72 x 81.2 cm; sight, 48.8 x 58.2 cm; rebate, 52.8 x 61.4 cm., Frames, Although its style is early Louis XIV, the way this f...
EditorialCassetta frame, early 20th century, American, New York (?), Basswood back frame with rosewood upper moldings and ivory, tortoiseshell, oak and maple veneers. Carved. Sight edge: simplified lotus leaf, ebonized. Frieze: ivory stringing, maple and oak ve...
EditorialHollow frame, early to mid-17th century, Italian, South Lombardy, Cimolo back frame and sight edge with polished pearwood upper moldings., 33.3 x 17.7, 16.8 x 11, 17.9 x 12.4 cm., Frames.
EditorialCassetta frame, 1630?40, Netherlandish, Pine with ebony veneer; half-lapped back frame. Black color. Sight edge: oil-gilt lead knulling. Frieze: sawn ebony veneer. Top edge: ebony molding with pine support., 31.2 x 25.8, 22.7 x 17.1, 23 x 17.5 cm., Frames.
EditorialTHE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN ARGENTINA: THE POLLING STATION AT THE CHURCH OF LA MERCED, BUENOS AYRES; The rival voters were kept back by an armed force of police out of sight of each other, only batches of two or three being allowed to enter the pollin...