Antique Bombs

All of Nolde's innovations in printmaking were carefully documented by the artist in an archive that was, tragically, destroyed when his Berlin studio was bombed in 1944. This event ...

Cottingham for Temple Church, London and possibly removed following WWII bomb damage. Tiles identical to these can still be found decorating the floors of the Church to this very day.

Silver sugar box raised on four feet, Vienna Austria, 1853 A square silver Austrian box in round bomb form with hinged cover and floral knob, raised on four feet.

The workshop with the stock of samples in Ritterstraße in Berlin completely burned down in 1945 just before the end of the war during a bomb attack. Ferdinand Preiss is regarded as o...

Vernons of No. 45 Squadron had bomb racks and sights fitted. In May 1924 the squadron was officially designated No. 45 (Bombing) Sqdn.

The building was repaired and redecorated several times over the years before it was completely destroyed in the German bombing of London during the Blitz in May of 1941.

James’ and have, despite several moves through expansion and enemy bomb damage during World War II, remained in London’s West End.

This item done with a push button cover is intended to be safe when bombs are going off all around you. The watch keeps dependable time and can be counted on to get you there on time.

The last three photographs show similar chandeliers as the one offered here hanging in other churches in Malta today that were spared the bombing.

Most were melted during World War I for the construction of bombs. These large folio sized "Analysis of Beauty" engravings are presented in antiqued gold-colored frames with double ...

Much of his life's work was lost in the bombing of Dresden in 1945 when his studio was destroyed.

Because of the impression that World War I had on him including the bombing of his home & studio, he left Paris and settled in Sardañola (Barcelona).

The upper left hand quadrant shows a rocket trail from a bomb bursting in air. Original gold gilt wooden frame.

According to the history of the family who owned it was burned after the fires that occurred during the German bombardment of Rotterdam in WW2. The German bombing of Rotterdam in Wo...

According to a legend, one specimen survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, close to the epicenter.

In the winter of 1943-1944, he was hit by a military truck which skidded on the ice, during the fighting for the liberation of the port of Le Havre, the village of Fontaine-la-Mallet...

View of the earthworks showing spiked timbers, gabions, and openings to underground bomb shelters at the Bastion du Mât, a French redoubt at the far left of the British lines and fac...

During World War II she was evacuated to Moritzburg, near Dresden. In 1943 a bomb fell on her home in Berlin, destroying early paintings, prints and plates.

Located at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in the small seaport of Rostrevor Co Down on the Carlingford Lough cove, the Great Northern Railway Company bought The Mourne Hotel (opene...

They became a limited company in 1920 under the name Walker & Hall Ltd, and their "Electro Works" building dominated the Sheffield skyline until it was bombed in the Sheffield blitz ...

London; Hendersons. [The Bomb Shop] 1919. 8 3/8 x 10 1⁄2 Inches, 8 loose sheets, only the half title page being folded.

The large blossoming bomb flowerheads centred by tiered round diamond clusters surrounded by pav-set diamond petals, weighing approximately 10.00 carats, mounted in 18k white and yel...

Belleroche moved to Southwell, Nottinghamshire when the English coast began to be bombed during World War II. His wife and daughter Alice were with him at the Crown Hotel[2] and he k...

Fire ships were essentially floating bombs, filled with combustibles and explosives, and set ablaze before being directed towards enemy ships or fortifications in an attempt to cause...

His studio was destroyed during the Liberation bombings of 1918, as was much of his catalogue of works.

James’ and have, despite several moves through expansion and enemy bomb damage during World War II, remained in London’s West End.

He lost his studio to a bombing raid in 1943 and he was killed during another raid early the following year.

Much of his work produced around 1730, was unfortunately lost to Allied bombing in 1945, when the abbey of Mont Cassin, for which he had produced over thirty paintings and frescoes, ...

He returned to the Southwest in 1941, but later that year his life took a dramatic turn. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was classified by the United States government as a...

Gisèle d’Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cr...

Marinot was ill, and never touched glass again, though he did continue to paint. In the 1944 Allied bombing of Troyes there was direct hit on his studio, destroying over 2,500 painti...

This also provides a historical document about the village church as the current church today in Hilston was only built in the 1950's, replacing a church which was demolished by a Wo...

With his fountain sculpture, Albermann has given the legendary blacksmith a figurative form and at the same time created a landmark for the city of Solingen, which was once famous fo...

Benson continued to produce high-quality watches until World War II, when its factory was bombed. After the war, Benson resumed production, but the company never fully recovered from...

The painting is the only pictorial testimony known to us of a fresco painted by Andrea Appiani for one of the frescoed vaults of the Royal Palace in Milan in 1809, which were lost du...

Most were melted down during World War I for the construction of bombs. Printed upon early nineteenth century wove paper and with large, full margins as published by William Heath in...

In 1944, the Allies heavily bombed Saint-Malo, destroying three-fourths of the city, which was later rebuilt.

A series of murals he created for the City Hall in Beauvais also fared poorly; being destroyed by German bombs in 1940. In addition to his painting, he was also a prolific author, w...

Despite a persistent bit of misinformation that Shôtei died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, he actually died of pneumonia in February of 1945, at the age of 74.

It was from this airbase that the Enola Gay bomber jet would later take off to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After Pearl Harbor, Loew joined the Navy and served as...

Second World War In 1945, allied bombing raids destroyed the Bechstein piano factory in Berlin, along with the firm's stores of valuable wood, including the precious Alpine spruce u...

The Lanckoronski Palace was bombed in 1945 and looted in the aftermath of the war, ultimately abandoned and demolished in the 1960s.

It also bears the label of Rodolfo Subert, antique dealer and great-grandfather of this writer, whose shop in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan was destroyed by bombing in Augus...

Below image text in Dutch and Latin, describing the victory over the strongly build Castle of Traerbach, of the allied forces under command of the Prince of Hessen after heavy bombin...

After the building was damaged by bombing in 1943 they moved to 41, New Bond Street.

In 1944, the Allies heavily bombed Saint-Malo, destroying three-fourths of the city, which was subsequently rebuilt.

Their commissions included, inter alia, the furnishing of the Royal Yacht Britannia, the liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, the Theatre Royal in Drury lane, and the palaces of th...

After the building was damaged by bombing in 1943 they moved to 41, New Bond Street.

After the building was damaged by bombing in 1943 they moved to 41, New Bond Street.

The company survived the Second World War, and although parts of the factory and the entire timber warehouse were destroyed by bombs, everything was completely rebuilt. However, the...

Interned as a German spy at the beginning of the Second World War, he was deported in 1942 on the SS Van Imhoff, which was sunk by a Japanese bomb en route to Ceylon. Walter Spies dr...

On the night of 16th November 1940 an incendiary bomb hit the Pall Mall premises and the greater part of the building was destroyed.

They, in the passion of their epic struggles, Drunk, they savored all the heroic noises, Iron striking iron, The winged Marseillaise flying into the bullets, The drums, the shells, t...

In 1926 Hampton and Sons opened a factory at Ingate Place, Battersea but in 1940 a bomb hit the Pall Mall premises and most of the building was destroyed.

She didn’t know that she was a helpless victim of the great real estate bomb to be dropped into her usual cup of weak coffee in the morning!”

He worked actively promoting the Allies’ cause against fascism but felt deeply grieved when the atomic bombs were dropped on his native Japan. From that time on, much of his work was...

The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster...