Thomas Blinks Photogravure, Waiting for the Guns

Sporting Print Of Setters. A Thomas Blinks Photogravure, Steady! A wonderful large photogravure after Thomas Blinks original painting. Framed in original carved oak frame with gold s...

Craig Campbell Golf Champions - The Ryder Cup. A colourful limited edition golfing print by Craig Campbell entitled 'Golfing Champions - The Ryder Cup'. Thi...

Salmon fishing lithograph by William Heath. An early rare hand coloured salmon fishing lithograph by William Heath, originally done as a set of four. This singular picture is entitled 'Sporting In The Scottish Isles' with secondary title 'Salmon Fishing', 'Drawn on stone by William Heath, from sketches taken by him in the Islands of Islay'. Framed in maple frame with glass. Published April 21st 1835 by Rudolph Ackermann. The other three pictures in the set are Grouse Shooting...

Polo picture, Drypoint Etching by Pierre-Georges Jeaniott. A rare Polo match etching by the artist by Pierre-Georges Jeaniott (French, 1848-1934). The drama of the match has been we...

19th century Irish Marine Botany Specimens made for Thomas Barnett of the Niagara Falls Museum. Seaweed samples were collected off the West Coast of Ireland in 1871 by Mrs. Maria J.W. Kirkwood and presented to Thomas Barnett Esquire, proprietor of the Niagara Falls Museum. These come as two separately framed pieces with hand embroidered lettering surrounded by seaweed and a poem written by Victoria Hall. Free shipping within the United States and Canada. The Niagara Falls Museum was a museum most notable for being the oldest Canadian museum (1827), as well as for having housed the mummy of Ramesses I for 140 years before its return to Egypt in 2003. It was founded by Thomas Barnett of Birmingham, England and underwent a few vocational changes in its history. More on Thomas Barnett and the Niagara Falls Museum. Thomas Barnett was born on December the 4th, 1799 near Birmingham, England. He moved to Canada in the early 1820s and opened the Niagara Falls Museum in 1827 at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Barnett had a passion for collecting oddities. He retrofitted a former brewery house to exhibit his private collection. Although Barnett was aware of the collection patterns of his North American contemporaries, his own approach bore an uncanny similarity to the British tradition, such as the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the first traditional museum in Britain. The Niagara Falls Museum had humble beginnings. In 1827, the first museum contained Thomas Barnett's own cabinet of taxidermic curiosities. Although the details were not documented, the collection was likely composed of a number of mounted animals of local origin, combined with a smattering of Native American artifacts. Barnett's collection however rapidly grew. Prior to 1844, an account of the museum's contents stated that there were over 5000 items, including bipeds, quadrupeds, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, shells, minerals, and Native American curiosities. Through the first fifty years of its existence, the Niagara Falls Museum continued to acquire similar artifacts through the diligent efforts of the Barnett family and their associates. In 1854, Sydney Barnett (son of Thomas Barnett) made the first of his three trips to Egypt (two by himself and one with Dr. J. Douglas of Montreal) and purchased four mummies as well as a host of other Egyptian antiquities. In 1857, mastodon remains were discovered in St. Thomas, Ontario and later placed in the museum. In 1859 an inventory of the museum's contents included, in addition to the previously mentioned artifacts, an egg collection...

Double set of buckles for harness. The bundles show of the Russian Imperial coat of arms. Each set includes eight buckles and four harness decorations. Mounted in two later oval frames. During 1896 the Tzar Nikolaj Aleksandrovic Romanov, Nicolas II...

Superb Antique map of The Windward Islands Published Edward Stanford, Charing Cross, London 1894 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Antique map titled 'Map of the Country between Annesley Bay and the Plain of Salt'. Lithographed map of the region near the Gulf of Zula, also known as Annesley Bay, Baia di Arafali ...