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<p>Folded leaflet or magazine insert advertising cutlery manufactured by Joseph Rodgers & Sons.</p>

Surgery ephemera. Box 1

Splendid show rooms at the King's Cutlery manufactory and Sheffield Plate Warehouse / Joseph Rodgers and Sons.

1 drawing : pencil, with wash and gouache

Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.

1 print : engraving ; sheet 16.7 x 12.6 cm

An old woman is threading a needle, there are various sewing instruments on the table. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M.W. Sharp.

1 print : lithograph, printed in orange, black and white ; sheet 59.2 x 41.9 cm

A safety pin with the message in German: 'Symbol of security: Safer Sex''; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.

<p>In the German publication, described as "Der Nadler", maker of pins and needles. In the Latin publication, described as "Fibularius" and "Der Hefftelmacher", a maker of metal hooks and eyes for garments</p>

A man and a woman making pins and needles. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

1 print : engraving ; image and border 31.5 x 20.1 cm

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Splendid show rooms at the King's Cutlery manufactory and Sheffield Plate Warehouse / Joseph Rodgers and Sons.

Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.

An old woman is threading a needle, there are various sewing instruments on the table. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M.W. Sharp.

A safety pin with the message in German: 'Symbol of security: Safer Sex''; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.

A man and a woman making pins and needles. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of the use of pincers (top), and sewing needles (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

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Splendid show rooms at the King's Cutlery manufactory and Sheffield Plate Warehouse / Joseph Rodgers and Sons.

Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.

An old woman is threading a needle, there are various sewing instruments on the table. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M.W. Sharp.

A safety pin with the message in German: 'Symbol of security: Safer Sex''; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, AIDS Suisse Contre le SIDA and Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.

A man and a woman making pins and needles. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.

Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of the use of pincers (top), and sewing needles (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

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