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Welcome to our Gallery of general images

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John Bull, an Englishman. Ironbridge Museum, UK
Ironbridge Museum, UK
Shop frontage of Bates and Hunt, Blists Hill Victorian Village, UK
BOA Diploma for James Bates of  Bates and Hunt, Blists Hill Victorian Village, UK
Arc perimeter, Bates and Hunt, Blists Hill Victorian Village, UK,
Bates and Hunt, Blists Hill Victorian Village, UK
Bates and Hunt, Blists Hill Victorian Village, UK
Bates and Hunt, Blists Hill Victorian Village, UK
Club exhibition at the AIO event October 2023
Club exhibition at the AIO event October 2023
Derek Davidson FADO
Club exhibition at the AIO event October 2021
Club exhibition at the AIO, October 2021
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2018 Auction
2018
2018-AGM-Buffet
2018 Auction items
The back of the Kirkliston tomb stone. The stone is badly canted and not easy to spot the carvings when approaching from the other side.
Kirkliston Church tomb stone
Kirkliston Church stone carving. The other head
Kirkliston Church stone carving. Is this a spectacles frame with ring end sides on a tomb stone dated 1727. Still being debated. What do you think?
Miniature Trial Case circa 1910, formerly in the Davidson collection
Steel, round-eye spectacles, short straight sides with loop ends. Lenses fitting into horn 'Martin's Margins'. English circa 1760 Miniature Trial Case circa 1910, formerly in the Davidson collection
Tortoiseshell purse case with painted miniature set behind glass. Inlaid with silver wire and inside lined with red silk. Circa 1870
Engraved, all Mother-of-Pearl opera glasses, the bridges and the centre spindle are also made of MoP. Late Victorian.
'Banjo' case, shagreen on wood, circa 1750

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