EditorialPair of wheellock rifles with spanner from Cornelis Tromp Radslotbuks from Cornelis Tromp, Radslotbuks or rudder. A hunting weapon with drawn barrels of small caliber, equipped with a hair puller (Stecher) and precision visor, intended for shooting sea...
EditorialWheellock gun, Radslotgun, octagonal drawn barrel, elongated brass visor grain, visor slot is missing, bottom of barreled brand: SS (possibly from Stephan Schlick, Dresden), wheel lock inside and closed on the outside by a round iron plate, on a lock p...
EditorialFlint gun with battery lock, octagonal drawn barrel with inlaid brass marker with letters: IBJS, elongated brass visor grain, in the front part of the room a visor bark that ends in leaf motif, round lock plate, with pan saddle, a safety pin behind the...
EditorialPair of wheellock rifles with spanner from Cornelis Tromp Radslotbuks from Cornelis Tromp, Radslotbuks or rudder. A hunting weapon with drawn barrels of small caliber, equipped with a hair puller (Stecher) and precision visor, intended for shooting sea...
EditorialPrecision watch with chronometer, rehearsal mechanism and playing work, Golden men's watch, also chronometer and equipped with a playing work. The dial has a second hand and a chronometer hand. On the outside of the rear floor, the HvB monogram is appl...
EditorialWheel-lock gun, octagonal drawn barrel, elongated brass visor grain, visor notch by adjusting screw, branded room: Joseph Michlin Passau, wheel inside, flat lock plate with image of trees and two women, of which one on the right with glass, a fox, two ...
EditorialTerracotta psykter (vase for cooling wine), Archaic, ca. 520?510 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 11 7/8 in. (30.20 cm), Vases, Around the body, hoplites(foot soldiers) mounted on dolphins. This procession of identically dressed foot sold...
EditorialFragments of a terracotta amphora (jar), Archaic, ca. 540?530 B.C., Greek, Chalcidian, Terracotta; black-figure, a-max. dim. 18.01 cm., Vases, Obverse, Herakles and the Erymanthean Boar, Reverse, Herakles and the Nemean Lion. These fragments show the a...
EditorialDecanter, ca. 1824?40, Made in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, American, Blown and cut glass, H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); Diam. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Glass, The Jersey Glass Company exhibited at the Franklin Institute in 1836 and was awarded a silver med...
EditorialPhotograph - Kodak, Shopfront Display, 'Precision Kodak Miniatures De Luxe', circa 1934-1936, Shopfront display 'Precision Kodak Miniatures De Luxe' showing cameras, photographs, photographic accessories and equipment. One of fifty-six photographs in a...
EditorialHe was Known Becuase of His Precision, plate eleven from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 240 x 295 mm (image); 247 x 300 mm (plate); 750 x 552 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five pla...
EditorialHe was Known Becuase of His Precision, plate eleven from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 240 x 295 mm (image); 247 x 300 mm (plate); 750 x 552 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five pla...
EditorialApparatus for treating horse glanders and William Hyde Wollaston's reflective goniometer, to measure the angles of minute crystals with precision. Copperplate engraving after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary o...
EditorialKobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
EditorialKobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".