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Coal

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  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal in order to be able to extract a tooth more easily. Etching by J. Collier after himself, 1773.
  • Fishmongers' Hall, Thames Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate allegorical carving above the doors, two fashionable ladies, a scholar and a coal-heaver in the street. Engraving by J. Greig after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • Apparatus for coal mining and two illustrations of coalmines. Engraving by A. Krausse for G. Heck.
  • Supply the bearer of this ticket (not transferable) with a bag of coals, value one shilling, or with one shilling's worth of groceries or flour / H.S. Thompson.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Coloured etching, 1810, after J. Collier.
  • A tooth-drawer frightening his patient with a hot coal causing him to pull away violently and extract a tooth. Pen drawing after J. Collier, 1773.
  • Machinery designed by Smeaton for extracting coal from the pits. Etching by W. Lowry after J. Farey.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
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Catalogue

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    Observations on the different strata of earths, and minerals. More particularly of such as are found in the coal-mines of Great Britain / By John Strachey.

    Strachey, John. | Date: 1727
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    Specification of James Palmer Budd : manufacture of coke.

    Budd, James Palmer. | Date: 1857
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    Our domestic fire-places : a treatise on the economical use of fuel and the prevention of smoke : with observations on the patent laws / Frederick Edwards, Jun.

    Edwards, Frederick, Jun. | Date: 1865
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    Fishmongers' Hall, Thames Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate allegorical carving above the doors, two fashionable ladies, a scholar and a coal-heaver in the street. Engraving by J. Greig after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.

    Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) | Date: 1830 | Reference: 23584i
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    Specification of Antoine Pauwels and Vincent Dubochet : manufacture of coke and gas, &c.

    Pauwels, Antoine. | Date: 1857
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