EditorialA preview of Bonhams' The Old, The Rare and The Only: a single-owner collection of rare Whisky, Cognac and Armagnac., New Bond Street, London, UK - 11 Apr 2022
EditorialBrine Pump. Georg von Reichenbach, 1817. The machine pumped salt solution, brine, in a pipe from Berchtesgaden to Reichenhall. It was in continuous operation for almost 100 years. In this brine pump, Georg von Reichenbach coupled a piston pump with a w...
EditorialBrine Pump. Georg von Reichenbach, 1817. The machine pumped salt solution, brine, in a pipe from Berchtesgaden to Reichenhall. It was in continuous operation for almost 100 years. In this brine pump, Georg von Reichenbach coupled a piston pump with a w...
EditorialJanet Jacksons school report, personal drawings and childhood toys feature in 1,000-item mega auction celebrating the singers four-decade-long music career
EditorialAlbert Heinecke, KPM K?nigliche Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin, piston vase, porcelain, glazed, total: height: 35,5 cm; diameter: 13 cm, mark: on the floor: in underglaze blue: blue sceptre mark with incised slash, incised mark: 29989, P II Y, ornamental o...
Editorialfools piston, Fig. 473, CCCCLXXII, Capitel CCCI-CCCXLVI., Leonhart Fuchs: New Kreuterbuch, in welchem nit allein die gantz histori, das ist, namen, gestalt, statt und zeit der wachsung [...] des meysten theyls der Kreuter so in Teutschen und andern Lan...
EditorialGlass syringe on profiled base The object, which is mainly made of copper plate and is composed of many parts, consists of a round tube placed on a profiled and perforated base, against which a round nasal narrowing tube narrowing at an angle above the...
EditorialAlto Saxhorn, Alto saxhoorn used by the Kurassiers department 9 from the Royal Netherlands Army. Marked on the cup with a polished weapon and text: 'Gautrot brevet? a Paris'. And a monogram in an oval. The instrument has three pistons. A key is missing...
EditorialModel of an Upper Pump Box, Model of a pump piston for a square pump tube. It consists of two layers of leather sandwiched between wooden boards. The lower half is square, the upper half consists of two triangular valves, covered with copper on the ins...
EditorialTypha, Narrenkolben, sea-piston, Fol. 362v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialBrine Pump. Georg von Reichenbach, 1817. The machine pumped salt solution, brine, in a pipe from Berchtesgaden to Reichenhall. It was in continuous operation for almost 100 years. In this brine pump, Georg von Reichenbach coupled a piston pump with a w...