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  • The Virgin and the Christ Child. Colour lithograph with silver and embossed golden simulation of oklad.
  • Snuff mull in the form of a ram's head containing two compartments with silver-gilt lids.
  • Snuff mull in the form of a ram's head containing two compartments with silver-gilt lids.
  • Components of the wheel used in the manufacture of silver dishes. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Snuff mull in the form of a ram's head containing two compartments with silver-gilt lids.
  • Snuff mull in the form of a ram's head containing two compartments with silver-gilt lids.
  • Snuff mull in the form of a ram's head containing two compartments with silver-gilt lids.
  • Peasants doing farmwork, thatching their huts and preparing food; representing the Silver Age. Etching by A. Tempesta.
  • Sterling silver : this exciting modern rose with the old-fashioned fragrance originally came from America ...
  • Sterling silver : this exciting modern rose with the old-fashioned fragrance originally came from America ...
  • A silver drinking horn dating from the 14th century. Engraving by J. & H. S. Storer, 1821.
  • Schemnitz, Hungary (Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia): a silver mine and miners descending. Engraving by T. Wallis, 1805, after W. Craig.
  • Elevations of a furnace used in silver manufacture with various implements of the trade. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A man smoking, with silver coins representing the expense of buying cigarettes. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount, October 1965.
  • Antiquities found in stone coffins in Chichester Cathedral, including silver chalices and gold rings. Engraving by Thomas King, 1830.
  • Elevations of a furnace used in silver manufacture with various tools of the trade. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • The Four Gospels, 1495, dark brown leather over boards with silver ornaments and a cross studded with five comelian stones
  • A young woman smoking, with silver coins representing the expense of buying cigarettes. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount, October 1965.
  • The silver trowel used by Henry S. Wellcome to lay the corner-stone of the Wellcome Building in 1931. Photograph.
  • Seven animals from Japan, including two frogs, a snail, a slug, a water-bug and a silver fish. Gouache painting.
  • Red McCarthy, the Olympic ice skater and later stunt skater, posing as a silver ice-skating statue. Photographic postcard, 1936.
  • Red McCarthy, the Olympic ice skater and later stunt skater, posing as a silver ice-skating statue. Photographic postcard, 1936.
  • Patte Labelle, a black woman wearing silver earrings; an advertisement for information about AIDS provided by The Red Cross. Colour lithograph.
  • Pap boat? silver gilt, described as gilt. The outside, on the bottom and sides, decorated with incised scene and foliate design.
  • A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli, as also some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, baths, and mineral waters in those parts. With the figures of some habits and remarkable places / By Edward Brown, M.D.
  • Wehen Kreuz, double cross, two crosses with equal arms, but one arm is common tothem both. Silver inlaid with malachite. Worn during labour.
  • The handle of a silver vessel or pan on which are depicted the labours of Hercules. Engraving and etching by James Basire after himself.
  • The evolution of a dog and bone into a butler bearing a silver serving-dish; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Wand of Office of a Scottish Medical Society. Silver. At the head a thistle surmounted by two demons in a squatting position. Hallmarked, London, Victorian.
  • Post card : a dainty appetiser for breakfast and tea : Silver Shred marmalade : guaranteed absolutely pure / James Robertson & Sons, Preserve Manufacturers, Ltd.