Antique World War Ii

The company also manufactured ammunition belts for use with machine guns, nosebags for horses and protective clothing for use during gas attacks. During World War II the factory pro...

The Swiss carved Black Forest items for the tourist trade starting in the 1820s and lasting until the beginning of World War II.

However, the most sought-after pieces are those produced before World War II. These tend to have the highest quality craftsmanship, thickest gauge of metal, and they are of course th...

The company also manufactured ammunition belts for use with machine guns, nosebags for horses and protective clothing for use during gas attacks. During World War II the factory pro...

She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a...

About a year later Guéron began producing art glass and etched glass light fixtures, The company produced all types of decorative items including vases, paperweights, stemware, and e...

Die Gemalde mit kritischem Ouverkatalog, Freren, 1986, Cat. 213, p. 525, with illustrations) and "Rocky landscape" from a former Kaiser-Friedrich Museum of Berlin, which was lost dur...

edition 65/75. provenance Martin Lawrence Gallery; comes with certificate of provenance Born in Palestine in 1927 and brought to Paris as a child, Theo Tobiasse created his earlies...

Hunebelle's store ceased all activity in 1938 prior to World War II. Dimensions are approx..: 26.5cm high x 20cm dia.

It was founded in February 1948 as an authorized foundation by the government in order to save the Japanese sword from an “extinction” that was being caused by the Occupation Forces ...

Omar Bradley (1893-1981) retains the distinction of being the last man appointed a five-star rank since World War II and the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In 1889, Maple & Co occupied the block surrounded by Tottenham Court Road, Euston Road, Gower Street and Grafton Street. [3] One of the suppliers that produced bedroom and dining cab...

By 1933 he had achieved enough fame and recognition that the Kunsthalle Basel held a major retrospective of his work. World War II found Chagall in the United States and in 1948 was ...

Very likely used to edit newsreel film footage during World War II in its later life. The letter "D" in the model description denotes the "Directors" model and very few of these exi...

Art Deco pieces from before World War II were not signed. From the 1950s, a small number of Epstein pieces in the Art Deco/Modern style were labelled ‘H. & L.

He moved to Montmartre where, in February 1914, he married Léona Ondernard, before leaving for the Front[vague]; he was however sent back the following year. During the First World W...

His business began to take off with special commissions such as the door of the French Embassy in Brussels, the Escalier Mollien stairs in the Louvre, and the stair and balcony raili...

While originally intended as a monument only to these dead, over time the Column came to memorialize all Prussian soldiers. In the aftermath of World War II, with the strong reaction...

His work is a most distinctive and comprehensive record of the pre and post World War II northern industrial town. Many people associate Lowry with “Matchstick men” which became virt...

Europe remained his home for the next thirty-seven years, spending most of his time in Holland, France, and Belgium while his San Francisco agent exhibited his paintings regularly in...

The term 'Swiss Army knife' was coined by US soldiers after World War II due to the difficulty they had in pronouncing the German name.

It was founded in February 1948 as an authorized foundation by the government in order to save the Japanese sword from an “extinction” that was being caused by the Occupation Forces ...

Kolešovice is near Rakovnic in central Bohemia and became part of Czechoslovakia at the end of World War II. This room is presumably one of the dining rooms of Kolešovice Castle, the...

Europe remained his home for the next thirty-seven years, spending most of his time in Holland, France, and Belgium while his San Francisco agent exhibited his paintings regularly in...

His work was considered degenerate art by the Nazis, and only after World War II did he regain recognition as one of the greatest German painters. 1896: Scholarship for the Karlsruh...

Despite increasing local competition in its export markets, the business continued to flourish in the 19th and early 20th centuries, remaining in the hands of the Wedgwood family, bu...

Kolbe returned to Berlin in 1906, where he joined the Association of Berlin Artists, a union of prominent German painters and sculptors. During World War II, the artist's studio and ...

Fortunately the figures were removed from the hall in 1931 and the coats of arms in 1942 all being moved to the Munich Museum before the hall was destroyed in World War II. The hall...

Not only could they be included in new construction at a low cost, but they could be very easily added to existing construction. as building codes evolved and more safety concerns ad...

However, during the Meiji era, with industrialization and the rise of mass-produced ceramics, this tradition nearly vanished before experiencing a revival after World War II. Dimens...

Her personal life was marred by hardship and heartache. She lost her son to World War I and her grandson to World War II and these losses contributed to her political sympathies.

Heckendorf helped organize an underground railroad that helped save over 70 Jews and non-Jews from the Gestapo by helping them flee across the German-Swiss border. Following the en...

His blades are always razor-sharp, and legend has it that one of his swords was used to cut a machine gun during World War II. Naganobu was also active in teaching; his most prominen...

Engineer Research and Development Laboratory (ERDL) at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as head of three-dimensional models for the US Air Force in Europe during World War II. Newman's most i...

During this time, he made his famous series of "papiers déchirés:" torn paper collages guided by randomness and chance. During World War II, Arp and Taeuber moved back to Z...

Very few of these trophies have survived since the race was first run in 1919 - The Pimlico Cup was postponed from 1931 through 1943 as a result of cutbacks necessitated by the Great...

His work was sold by the Artists Guild of America and the Vose Galleries of Boston. During World War II, the King of Norway purchased one of his marine paintings that was transported...

In 1938-39 he did six 12-foot mural panels for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on epochs in science. During World War II he did three sets of pictures of the war effort for Na...

Following the outbreak of World War II Lubbers was in Holland during the Nazi occupation.

Upon Venard’s release from the army, at the end of World War II, his life was transformed. With recognition came the chance to put painting before all else.

Following the outbreak of World War II Lubbers was in Holland during the Nazi occupation.

Indeed Spain was freeing its chains from the franquist autarchy, the economy was changing and frontiers were opening up to a new outside world. With the end of World War II were born...

(which were destroyed by bombing in World War II ). Some of his devotional pictures became very popular: the Virgin with the Child Jesus; St.

The style originated in the 1920s and continued to be employed until after World War II. The term "art deco" first saw wide use after an exhibition in 1966, referring to the 1925 Exp...

Following the outbreak of World War II Lubbers was in Holland during the Nazi occupation.

When the United States entered World War II, federal funding poured into the war effort and the market for furniture dried up.

In 1938, at the Anschluss of Austria and Nazi Germany, his work was declared entartete Kunst or "degenerate art," but he managed to continue working during World War II. Source:Wiki...

During height of the Great Depression, Coast and Geodetic Survey (C&GS) organized surveying parties and field offices that employed over 10,000 people, including many out-of-work eng...

The style originated in the 1920s and continued to be employed until after World War II. The term "art deco" first saw wide use after an exhibition in 1966, referring to the 1925 Exp...

Very likely used to edit newsreel film footage during World War II in its later life. The letter "D" in the model description denotes the "Directors" model and very few of these exist.

The style originated in the 1920s and continued to be employed until after World War II. The term "art deco" first saw wide use after an exhibition in 1966, referring to the 1925 Exp...

In the period 1846-1849 Baccarat signed some of their high quality glass millefiori paperweights with the letter B and the year date in a composite cane.[4] A special paperweight dat...

In the period 1846-1849 Baccarat signed some of their high quality glass millefiori paperweights with the letter B and the year date in a composite cane.[4] A special paperweight dat...

His wife, Gertrude Mauran Vail, brought the contents of his studio to America for safe-keeping during World War II. These works were circulated in a well-received retrospective exhib...

The station featured a large, open concourse along the river, with massive steel arches holding up the roof, and several stairways leading passengers down to the platform. During Wor...

Very likely used to edit newsreel film footage during World War II in its later life. The letter "D" in the model description denotes the "Directors" model and very few of these exis...