EditorialModel of an Optical Telegraph, Model of an optical telegraph on a floor board, incomplete. It consists of a propped mast with a short gallows on top. Sports are provided between two of the four braces to climb the mast. Two wooden wings are moved halfw...
EditorialModel of a Portable Optical Telegraph, Model of a portable telegraph, incomplete. It consists of a triangle frame with a horizontal arm and a suspension hook at the top. The horizontal slats are provided with hooks, on which signals can be hoisted. The...
EditorialNavy, Maritime Correspondence Signals, Night and Day Recognition Signals and Brown Signals, Signals in shipping, Signed: Benard Direx, Pl. 25, after p. 14, Benard (dir.), 1778, Denis Diderot; M. d'Alembert: Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sc...
EditorialPhotograph - Norma Burns on her Wedding Day, Melbourne, 14 Dec 1942, Portrait of Norma Burns taken on the day of her wedding to Arthur William '(Bill') Green. They were married at the Methodist Church in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, on 14 December 1942. H...
EditorialDress - Wedding of Norma Green nee Burns, Cream Satin, Manton's, Melbourne, 14 Dec 1942, Cream satin wedding dress. Purchased at Mantons Department Store, 200 Bourke Street, Melbourne, on 14 December 1942 by Norma Green. She married Arthur William '(Bi...
EditorialNegative - Miner in Winding Cage at Top of Mine Shaft at the Berringa Mine, Berringa, Victoria, circa 1900, Miner in cage at top of the mine shaft at the Berringa Mine. The operator's 'code of signals' is nailed on a post next to the cage.
EditorialDress - Wedding of Norma Green nee Burns, Cream Satin, Manton's, Melbourne, 14 Dec 1942, Cream satin wedding dress. Purchased at Mantons Department Store, 200 Bourke Street, Melbourne, on 14 December 1942 by Norma Green. She married Arthur William '(Bi...
EditorialModel of an Optical Telegraph, Model of an optical telegraph on a floor board, incomplete. It consists of a propped mast with a short gallows on top. Sports are provided between two of the four braces to climb the mast. Two wooden wings are moved halfw...
EditorialSix Night Signals, Three types of night signals, two of each, used by the Russian Navy. The first type consists of a wooden stick with at the end a pan for pyrotechnic fire and a fire trap, the trigger of which is halfway the stick. The second type con...
EditorialModel of an Optical Telegraph, Model of an optical (light) telegraph on a wooden base, in very poor condition. A wooden projector board is hung on top of a mast with seventeen sawn-out geometric figures in two rows. The same figures are drawn below on ...
EditorialPhoturis, Print, Photuris is a genus of fireflies (beetles of the family Lampyridae). These are the femme fatale lightning bugs of North America. This common name refers to a behavior of the adult females of these predatory beetles; they engage in aggr...
EditorialRed fiured bel-krater (wine bowl), from Santa Agata dei Goti, Campania, Italy, made in Paestum. Alkmene's narrow escape from death is depicted in this scene. Torches are put to a pile of logs in front of the altar, where Alkmene waves frantically upwar...
EditorialSpecial flags of the new international code (1901). Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 3.
EditorialIllustrated front cover, showing a naval rating raising a flag. Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 ...
EditorialNew commercial code signals, January 1901. . Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 4.
EditorialFlags of the new international code of signals. Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 2.
EditorialCaptain Boyton off Clevedon Pier, Somerset. Illustrations of Capt. Boyton captioned: 'the umbrella sail', 'signalling', 'paddling', 'fog signals', 'Capt. Boyton in full dress', 'firing rocket' and 'luncheon'. [London] : W. W. Mrogan, printer, 67 Barbic...
EditorialFlags of the new international code of signals. Signalling. How to learn the use of the new International Code of Signals as required at the B.O.T. examinations. ... Second edition. Glasgow : James Brown & Son, 1901. Source: 08805.e.27 plate 1.
EditorialTwelve views of Maker Church depicting the different signals from the tower used by the British Navy. This shows a pre-Napoleonic signalling system used by the British Navy in the middle of the eighteenth century. It predates, and is significantly crud...
EditorialRed fiured bel-krater (wine bowl), from Santa Agata dei Goti, Campania, Italy, made in Paestum. Alkmene's narrow escape from death is depicted in this scene. Torches are put to a pile of logs in front of the altar, where Alkmene waves frantically upwar...
EditorialWine decanter, ca. 1780, Hungarian, Nagyszeben, Silver, partly gilded, Overall: 13 11/16 x 4 1/8 in. (34.8 x 10.5 cm), Metalwork-Silver, This decanter was used to serve mulled wine. The sculpted snake holding an apple in its mouth and resting on the sc...
EditorialFife, ca. 1780?90, London, England, United Kingdom, British, Maple, brass, L. 38.1 cm (15 in.); Diam. 2.5 cm (1 in.), Aerophone-Blow Hole-side-blown flute (transverse), Thomas Cahusac, Sr. (British, London 1714?1798 London), The fife is a simple, six-h...
EditorialMarble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, late 4th?early 5th century, Made in Constantinople, Byzantine, Pentelic Marble, Overall: 20 7/8 x 10 13/16 x 8 3/4 in. (53 x 27.5 x 22.2 cm), Sculpture-Stone, This sensitively carved portrait bust presents...
EditorialRed fiured bel-krater (wine bowl), from Santa Agata dei Goti, Campania, Italy, made in Paestum. Alkmene's narrow escape from death is depicted in this scene. Torches are put to a pile of logs in front of the altar, where Alkmene waves frantically upwar...