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Editorial F1 ace Fernando Alonso shows off his new eco-friendly electric luxury yacht with unique solar power system
Editorial EXCLUSIVE: Live off-grid in a self-sustaining eco-home ? complete with 14 farm animals and 35 acres
Editorial EXCLUSIVE: Live off-grid in a self-sustaining eco-home ? complete with 14 farm animals and 35 acres
Editorial Wiz Khalifa home in Encino, Los Angeles
Editorial Record breaking rollercoaster due to open at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California
Editorial Beam of the Passion, ca. 1192-1220. Detail depicting the Lamentation of Christ. Romanesque. Anonymous. Catalan origin. Tempera on wood. National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain.
Editorial Taking Shelter from the Rain.
Editorial Table painted in white with four angled legs and carved, Table in white painted lime with four angled legs, made up of two C-volutes placed one above the other. The legs are decorated with acanthus leaves and on the back with pearl cords. At the bottom...
Editorial Half Model or a 28-Gun Demolition or War, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast, the skin closed above the barwood. Twenty-one gun ports spread over two decks. The figurehead is a crowned male bust. A lion's head on the crane beam. Twisted...
Editorial Taking Grave, Copper Medal. Front side: man lifts with beam resting on trestle millstone on inner circumference, cut off: inscription interrupted by coat of arms. Reverse: spade with laurel wreath within a circle, Grave, Utrecht, Staten van Utrecht, an...
Editorial Model of Two Congreve Rockets with Launching Gear, Model of two fire missiles, designed by Congreve on a launcher or chair, for use on land. The rockets themselves consist of a pointed cylinder, the tip of which is the fire bomb and the rear part is th...
Editorial Model of a Shocker, Tested and polychromed truss model of a shocker. The model has the typical thick, straight, falling prow with disc in the end, the grounding is pointed. Pointed stern with straight stern, stern rudder with curled rudder head and woo...
Editorial Construction fragment, Beam key made of oak, carried on the front by a carved squat satyr. Volutes on the sides with leaf motifs in the soil. The key piece has flat chain links and ends at the front in a console with acanthus leaf. Originating from the...
Editorial Burning of the theologian Michael Servet in Geneva, Silver Medal. Front: man with a beam in the eye tries to remove splinter from the eye of another person within a circle. Reverse: owl with glasses in claw, sitting next to burning candle above letters...
Editorial Model of a 60-Pounder Carronade on a Slide, Model of a 60-pound carronade with taps, on a sliding carriage for a coastal battery, with two front cars. The 51 cm long barrel has a caliber of 50 mm, a simple sun hole in the highest decorative wire band, ...
Editorial Model of a 30-Pounder Gun on Deck, Model of a 30-pound cannon on a horse on a ship part. The wooden barrel, 55 cm long and with a 32 mm caliber, is painted black, it has a visor on the waistband, the grape is flat from behind and has a refraction ring....
Editorial Box with iron, steel and ore samples Box Containing Samples of Iron Ore, Iron and Steel, Rectangular open wooden drawer with eleven boxes, containing samples of iron, steel and iron ore. The steel and iron samples consist of a group of eight steel bars...
Editorial Lantern Slide - Tangyes Ltd, Beam Steam Pumping Engine, circa 1910, One of 239 glass lantern slides depicting products manufactured by Tangyes Limited engineers of Birmingham, England. The images include various products such as engines, centrifugal pu...
Editorial Negative - Tocumwal, New South Wales, pre 1950, Three carpenters on the framework for a pitched roof. One is seated on the ridge beam of an extension. The other two are on the main roof.
Editorial Photograph - Schumacher Mill Furnishing Works, 'Elevating Beam Conveyor-Elevator', Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1945, Black and white promotional image of a portable elevating beam conveyor-elevator. It is part of a collection of photographs and marked pr...
Editorial Lantern Slide - Tangyes Ltd, Beam Tester, circa 1910, One of 239 glass lantern slides depicting products manufactured by Tangyes Limited engineers of Birmingham, England. The images include various products such as engines, centrifugal pumps, hydraulic...
Editorial Carved beam ends, Intricately carved ends of beams on log cabins, Fig. 71-72, p. 83, 1885, Ernst Gladbach: Die Holz-Architectur der Schweiz, 2. Aufl. Z?rich & Leipzig: Orell F?ssli, 1885.
Editorial Model of a 30-Pounder Carronade on a Carriage and Slide, Model of a 30-pound carronade on the spout on the ship's part, incomplete. The barrel is 34.5 cm long and has a caliber of 37 mm, it is equipped with a refraction ring, a feather screw through th...
Editorial Lift beam construction for the conquest of a fortress tower, Medieval Warfare, War Equipment, Siege Technique, Lift Bar Constructing for the Conquest, Overcoming a Fortress Tower, Woodcut, S. 341, (Liber decimus), 1483, Roberto Valturio: [De re militar...
Editorial Linea parabolica, reflex beam, the Lineae Parabolic their focal point, Brenn-Glass, Construction of parabolas, firing glasses, Fig. 140-156, p. 107, Christian Schessler: Demonstrationes mathematicae oder Untersuchung derer mathematischen Warheit- und U...
Editorial Half Model of a Dutch Smack, Polychromed mold model (port) of a single-mast flat bottom. The skin above the barwood is closed and has four long scuppers, the railing runs very high at the rear and forms a triangular hemp, decorated with a dolphin. Roun...
Editorial Half Model or a 12-Gun Brig, Polychromed Planked Mold Model (Starboard) of a Two Mast. Eight gun gates plus two in the fence, all on one deck, the deck is closed. Forepart worked out with galleon and figurehead of a gilt curl, the crane beam is missing...
Editorial Cither (Nordic beam), Northern beam with three strings. Two screws are missing. Dated: 1608., anonymous, 1608, wood (plant material), h 84.0 cm × w 10.5 cm × d 6.5 cm.
Editorial Five Models of Guns on Slides and Pivots of a Coastal Battery, Five models of guns on turn slides, of a coastal battery, one of which is incomplete. The slides consist of a rectangular frame with brass fittings, the beams in the longitudinal direction ...
Editorial Model of a 12-Pounder Gun on a Carriage, The 40.3 cm long barrel has a caliber of 19.8 mm, a breaking ring, the grape is flat from behind. The inscriptions are engraved on the barrel, along with two crossed anchors and palm branches. The cheek horse ch...
Editorial Model of a ship camel Model of a Ship camel, Construction model of a ship's camel, the starboard half of a pair. The skin has been omitted so that the construction and layout are visible. The hull is rectangular, on one side adapted to the shape of a f...
Editorial Miraculous medal, devotion token dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and the devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Christ and Mary, made in response to the apparition, Brass oval medal on bearing eye. Obverse: standing on a globe, Mari...
Editorial Burning of the theologian Michael Servet in Geneva, Silver Medal. Front: man with a beam in the eye tries to remove splinter from the eye of another person within a circle. Reverse: owl with glasses in claw, sitting next to burning candle above letters...
Editorial Model of the Construction of the Screw Aperture for a Twin Screw Steamer, Model of part of the stern of a wooden ship ( starboard side), on a groundboard. The model shows the keel, the trusses with sentenced and a part of the weighing and the propeller...
Editorial Grave capture, Silver Medal. Front side: man lifts with beam resting on trestle millstone on inner circumference, cut off: inscription interrupted by coat of arms. Reverse: spade with laurel wreath within a circle, Grave, Utrecht, Staten van Utrecht, a...
Editorial Mirror of life Specvlvm propriae vilitatis (title on object) Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God (series title) Duodecim Specula Deum (series title), In the foreground a mirror with a skull. Four snakes around the mirror, symbolizing origina...
Editorial Memorial for Johan Diederich Deiman, Two allegorical figures at a burial monument. Godliness is personified by an angel with a flame on his head, who points to a beam of light. The friendship is depicted by a weeping woman with a skull under her foot a...
Editorial Burning of the theologian Michael Servet in Geneva, Copper Medal. Front: man with a beam in the eye tries to remove splinter from the eye of another person within a circle. Reverse: owl with glasses in claw, sitting next to a burning candle within a ci...
Editorial Half alstrip of bobbin lace with fan and French lily, Half alstrip of natural-colored bobbin lace. Richly nuanced light side with a repeating pattern that consists of two types of symmetrical compositions of flowers, leaves and architectural forms. One...
Editorial Model of a Chain Stopper, Model of a chain stopper between two decks. Consisting of a slide for the chain on a bobbin and continuing through the port vault hole, and a heavy devil's claw hanging on a bobbin on the ship's wall. A clasp over the chain se...
Editorial Model of a Chain Stopper, Model of a chain stopper between two decks. Consisting of a slide for the chain on a bobbin and continuing through the starboard vault hole, and a heavy devil's claw hanging on a bobbin on the ship's wall, the claw is assemble...
Editorial Half Model of a Screw Steamer, Polychromed and fully planked mold model (starboard) of a three-mast screw steamship, with nine large and two small ports. Almost vertical, straight prow with galleon and curl as figurehead, composite crane beam. Elliptic...
Editorial Blindness of old Tobit, Hollow, round, silver plaque, surrounded by a leaf wreath. To the right in the foreground, Tobias (sic) is sleeping next to his home. Above his head on a beam end a nest with the birds that would cause his blindness. In a galler...
Editorial Model of an Anchor Release, Model of a crane beam with anchor trap. A slot runs straight through the crane beam, at the top provided with brass fittings with a rotating catch that half closes the slot. There is a brass half clamp on the side of the cra...
Editorial Half Model or an 18-Gun Brig, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast. The skin above the barwood is closed, nine painted gun gates on one deck. Forepart finished with galleon and figurehead of a gilt curl, a lion's mask on the crane beam. T...
Editorial Half Model or a 74-Gun Ship of the Line, Fully planked and polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast. Forty-six gun ports spread over three decks. The figurehead is a crowned man with a scepter in the right hand and a bundle of flames in the r...
Editorial Model of a Carriage for a 30-Pounder Gun, Model of a rolling horse, incomplete. The cross-connection of the two parallel cheeks is formed by a sloping calf with a breast piece with breast flap, the front ash body, and the soleplate that immediately ser...
Editorial Taking Grave, Copper Medal. Front side: man lifts with beam resting on trestle millstone on inner circumference, cut off: inscription interrupted by coat of arms. Reverse: spade with laurel wreath within a circle, Grave, Utrecht, Staten van Utrecht, an...
Editorial Model of a 30-pounder cannon on a gun carriage, Model of a 30-pounder gun on a carriage, The 52.7 cm long barrel has a caliber of 27 mm, a breaking ring, the grape is flat behind. The inscriptions are engraved on the barrel, along with two crossed anch...
Editorial Model of Topgallant Crosstrees, Simple model of a blackberry. Three curved transverse sections lie on longitudinal sections, which are still connected from the front by a transverse beam., anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1750 - c. 1800, wood (plant material...
Editorial Anti-Catholic spot medal, Silver medal. Front: owl with glasses and collar, and with inkwell and pen around his neck, standing on a cushion with a sword, in addition, a burning candle with seven stars inside an inscription, cut off: inscription. Revers...
Editorial Half Model or a 10-Gun Demolition of War, Mold Model (starboard) of a three-mast. The large number of truss jigs is striking. The skin above the bar wood is closed. Six gun ports on one deck. The figurehead is a female bust, carving between the knees. ...
Editorial Pair of candlesticks candlestick with medallions Pair of candlesticks, The candlesticks are round in cross-section. The straight-walled base has a flat top, over which runs a pearl rim that surrounds the foot. This is constructed in steps and consists ...
Editorial Oak beam beam console, Oak beam beam console showing a carved man's head, placed under an ornament similar to a handle and flanked by two volutes, filled with a guillochem motif., anonymous, Northern Netherlands (possibly), c. 1600 - c. 1699, wood (pla...
Editorial Model of a 36-pounder gun on a gun carriage, Model of a 36-pounder gun on a carriage, Model of a 36-pound gun on a horse. The 55.5 cm long barrel has a caliber of 27.5 mm, a refraction ring, the grape is flat from behind. The inscriptions are engraved ...
Editorial Model of a Gunlock (Percussion), Model of a percussion lock on a floorboard. The hammer has an elongated hole for the shaft and is mounted between two cheeks that are open to the front. A guide on the hammer causes the hammer to turn first and then be ...
Editorial Memorial for Johan Diederich Deiman, Two allegorical figures at a burial monument. Godliness is personified by an angel with a flame on his head, who points to a beam of light. The friendship is depicted by a weeping woman with a skull under her foot a...
Editorial Half Model or a 14-Gun Brig, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a two-mast. The skin above the barwood is closed, eight painted artillery gates on one deck. Forepart worked out with galleon and figurehead of a gilt curl, the crane beam is missing. T...
Editorial Construction fragment, Three beam keys of oak with rosettes cut on both sides. One copy is painted with yellow paint, c. 1400 - c. 1950, oak (wood), paint (coating), h 11.0 cm ? w 25.9 cm ? d 30.2 cm h 11.2 cm ? w 25.9 cm ? d 30.2 cm h 11.4 cm ? w 27.3...
Editorial Field of four tiles with flowers in squares, Field of four tiles (2 x 2) each with a multi-colored (blue, orange and purple) painted flower within an octagon formed by tendrils of flowers and leaves. In the corners, a beam angle., anonymous, Netherland...
Editorial Balance standard with a counterweight Balance, The foot of the balance is three-step in cross-section. It is made up of a vaulted section decorated with mauresques in a low relief and a low platform with a straight wall with a block frame. On this are ...
Editorial Half Model of an Admiralty Yacht, Extensively decorated, detailed and polychromed block model (starboard) of a flat-bottomed single-mast yacht. The model has a deck with a cabin at the rear, the floor of which floats to let the tiller sail underneath, ...
Editorial Taking Grave, Silver Medal. Front: man lifts with beam resting on trestle millstone on top of coat of arms, inside inscription. Reverse: spade with laurel wreath for a cityscape within a circle., Grave, Staten van Utrecht, Claes Petersz. van de Vogelae...
Editorial Construction fragment, Beam key of oak., Jean Daill?, anonymous, Netherlands (possibly), 1600 - 1699, wood (plant material), oak (wood), h 34.3 cm ? w 19.4 cm ? d 21.5 cm ? w 5.4 kg.
Editorial Half Model of a Screw Steamer, Polychromed block model (starboard) of a three-mast propeller steamship. The galleon is finished, the figurehead is missing, crane beam with gilt rosette. Elliptical fence, Mangin screw and rudder with stirrer. Extendable...
Editorial Model of Two Congreve Rockets with Launching Gear, Model of two fire rockets on a launcher or chair, for placement on a sloop. The rockets themselves consist of a pointed cylinder, the tip of which is the fire bomb and the rear part is the rocket engin...
Editorial Emergency mortar or iron bombarde, The bombarde consists of two parts: a front part or boiler of wrought iron and a back part or breech of supposedly cast iron. The construction of the boiler consists of a spiral-wound iron rod of square cross-section....
Editorial Half Model or a 44-Gun Frigate, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast. Twenty five gun ports on two decks. The figurehead is a crowned man with a spear. A lion's head on the crane beam. Poop with elliptical fence and one-storey side galler...
Editorial Model of a Gun and Carriage, Polychromed model of a gun on a horse. The 49 cm long wooden barrel is painted black, red and white and has a caliber of 21 mm. The grape has an extra long neck on which a percussion lock is mounted by means of a bracket. T...
Editorial Field of four tiles with flower, insect or snail in octagon, Field of four tiles (2 x 2) each with a multi-colored (blue, orange and purple) painted snail, flower or insect within a octagon formed by tendrils of flowers and leaves. In the corners, a be...
Editorial Model of a Stopper, Model of an anchor stopper between two decks, consisting of a slide for the chain on a bobbin and running through the starboard vault hole, and a heavy devil's claw hanging on a bobbin on the ship's wall. A light devil's claw hangs ...
Editorial Half Model or a 24-Gun Frigate, Framed, polychromed mold model (starboard), fully planked, of a three-mast. Upper deck with twelve artillery ports, including twelve rowing ports, no artillery positions on half-deck or box. Curved prow with crowned lion...
Editorial Pair of candlesticks candlestick with medallions Pair of candlesticks, The candlesticks are round in cross-section. The straight-walled base has a flat top, over which runs a pearl rim that surrounds the foot. This is constructed in steps and consists ...
Editorial Model of Two Iron Hanging Knees, Model of a part of the ship's skin with weight and two deck beams of a lower deck. Composite metal knees support the beams, they consist of two parts that clamp the deck beam between them. The knees are mirror images of...
Editorial Half Model or a 38-Gun Frigate, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast. Twenty one gun ports on two decks. A lion's head on the crane beam. Poop with elliptical fence and decorated one-storey side gallery with an open deck above it, rudder ...
Editorial Model of a Lifting Screw, Model of a screw duct in a stern with elliptical stern. The screw light device consists of a loose frame with a two-blade screw, which can be lifted up and down in the tube by a rope that runs over two discs at the top of the ...
Editorial Medal with inscription AHS, single-sided brass badge. Obverse: monogram of the letters AHS above the coat of arms surrounded by twigs and year, stamped in upper part of coat of arms: letter A, three dots on beam and one dot in lower part. Reverse: blan...
Editorial Linen press with scaffold styles in the form of Ionic columns, Linen press made of oak. The sledge feet display acanthium tendons on the side and lions lying in front, leaf motifs on the slanting fields between the feet. The scaffold styles have the sh...
Editorial Black ornament in the form of a sawn beam Black ornaments (series title), Two men saw a beam with black ornament in the middle. The plank is supported by a stone, beam, tree root and a barrel. Top right a beetle. Numbered bottom right 2. The print is p...
Editorial Half Model or a 74-Gun Ship of the Line, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast. Forty-six gun ports on three decks. The figurehead is a torso by Michiel de Ruyter, armored. A lion's head on the crane beam. Poop with elliptical fence and tw...
Editorial Model of a Dredger, Model of a dredger raft with dredger bracket installation. The bracket with long handle is operated with a winch, the hoist runs through a block on a two-legged goat. A crane beam under the trestle, which probably serves as a lever ...
Editorial Half Model of a Lightship, Block Model (starboard) of a two-mast. In the bow it has two job holes one above the other, the crane beam is far to the rear. Round stern with a safe hole, straight rudder standing on a heel, rounded rudder blade. The sheer ...
Editorial Tobacco box, Round box with flattened ball shape, and round lid with gold-plated silver hinge. The outside is horizontally divided into two friezes, on which alternating cartouches and weapon trophies with guns, banners, armor and drums. The cartouches...
Editorial Taking Grave, Copper Medal. Front side: man lifts with beam resting on trestle millstone on inner circumference, cut off: inscription interrupted by coat of arms. Reverse: spade with laurel wreath within a circle, Grave, Utrecht, Staten van Utrecht, an...
Editorial Cither (Nordic beam), Nordic beam of metal with four strings., anonymous, c. 1800 - c. 1899, metal, h 89.0 cm × w 17.0 cm × d 10.0 cm.
Editorial Fichu of needle lace with scattered twigs and rose buds, Fichu of natural-colored needle lace: Burano lace. Triangular model. The triangular midfield has sprinkled branches with rose buds and is surrounded by a pearl frame. A wide border runs around th...
Editorial Model of a Gun Position on the Afterdeck, Model of the aft deck of a paddle steamer with a 60-pound bomb gun on a rotating carriage. The barrel is 15 cm long and has a caliber of 4 mm, a grape screw goes through the grape. The lower carriage consists o...
Editorial Model of the Bed of a 20-cm Sea Service Mortar on a Pivoting Undercarriage, Model of a mortar chair for mortar of 20 inches (cm) on swivel bed. The swivel bed consists of a flat wooden plate with a hole for the spindle bolt in the middle. At the rear i...
Editorial Model of an Anchor Release, Model of a crane beam with anchor trap. The crane beam has two discs in the head, three half cleats on one side and a fall mechanism on the other, consisting of a set of jaws and a lever to open them., anonymous, Netherlands...
Editorial Cither (Nordic beam), Nordic beam of wood, on two spools of sixteen metal strings, ten of which are missing., P. H. Hos, Friesland, c. 1847, wood (plant material), metal, h 86.5 cm × w 19.0 cm × d 12.0 cm.
Editorial Table of white painted wood with four angled legs and with carving, Table of white painted lime wood with four angled legs, made up of two C-volutes placed one above the other. The legs are decorated with acanthus leaves and on the back with pearl cord...
Editorial Model of a Gun Carriage, Model of an carriage, incomplete. The body becomes narrower towards the front. The cross-connection between the cheeks consists of a sloping calf with a breast piece with a breast valve, and the ashes, soleplate is a longitudin...
Editorial Miraculous medal, devotion token dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and the devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Christ and Mary, made in response to the apparition, Brass oval medal on the bearing eye and the bearing ring. Obverse: ...
Editorial Tangle holder, constructed from C-volutes adorned with leaves, foam and rocaill motifs and flowers. one of which can be unscrewed. A rotatable connecting piece is attached to the top of the bracket with an eye in which the eye of a large link fits. The...
Editorial Ice slide, On an elongated plate is a horse. The horse pulls a sled. The guides are attached to a beam with a towbar, where the carriage can be hooked. The carriage has high sides with bars and stands on semicircular irons. The image is marked: stk. = ...
Editorial Model of a Ship Camel, Construction model of a small ship's camel, on a floorboard. The skin has been omitted. The rectangular hull has a flat pram-like bow. The camel has sixteen pumps in two rows, two capstans and two betings, a crane beam at the bow...
Editorial Cartridge with 6-Pounder Cannon Ball, Kardoes with 6 pound cannonball. Kardoes consisting of a cylindrical brass body, closed on the flat sides with wooden discs. The cartard contains a cannonball, which is held in place by a third wooden disc on one s...
Editorial Fragment red lampas with pattern of stylized leaves, lions and the arms of Granada, Fragment red lampas with pattern in blue, green, white and gold of stylized leaves and flowers and ditto lions with turned head, as well as crowned ones coats of arms w...