Metal Collection

Real street picture of vintage women toilet sign in Vienna, Austria Real street picture of vintage women toilet sign in Vienna, Austria

Boxer of Quirinal, also known as the Terme Boxer
Greek Art. Hellenistic. Boxer of Quirinal or the Terme Boxer. Bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic period (1st century B.C.). Boxer sitting at rest, with metal and leather dressings used for combat

The Thief - painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa
Postcard image after a painting by Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa La Ladrona (" The Thief" ) in the los Tiros art gallery in Granada, Spain

Metropolitan Police whistle and chain
A Metropolitan Police whistle and chain

Coopers at work making wooden barrels
Four coopers hard at work in their workshop making traditional wooden barrels. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Miner at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall
Miner at work with a drill underground (below the sea) in Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall, which was just about to cease operation. Date: circa 1986

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, oil on canvas by an unknown artist after Robert Walker, c.1640. Date: c.1640

Perseus and Medusa statue at Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

The Normandy Landings - 6th June 1944 - WW2. Note the American soldier in the landing craft holding a metal detector to sweep for landmines. Date: 1944

Sunrise at the Clyde Arc (Squinty Bridge), Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Medieval goldsmith at work
Workshop of Etienne Delaulne, a goldsmith in Paris, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century illustration

Beware of Trains - In English and Welsh
A metal sign in English and Welsh stating - Beware of Trains - likely to have been positioned at a footpath crossing or at a station

Building and masonry tools
Various building and masonry tools, including a saw, a mallet, chisels, hatchets, a trowel and a hammer

The midnight sun lights up the giant steel boat sculpture that stands on the waters edge at Reykjavik, Iceland, Polar Regions

The souk, Marrakech (Marrakesh), Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Wall Street sign, New York City, New York State, USA, North America

Iron Bridge over the River Severn, Ironbridge, Shropshire, England, UK

Image of Che Guevara on wall outside apartment, Havana, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

The Iron Foundry, Burmeister & Wain, 1885, by Peder Severin
Peder Severin Kroyer (1851-1909). Danish painter. The Iron Foundry, Burmeister & Wain, 1885. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark

The Periodic Table Digital Illustration
In the late 19th century, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published his first attempt at grouping chemical elements according to their atomic weights

Metal Reactions
The chemical and physical reactions of certain metals

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 1, Size MP, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Great Newtown Head and Metal Man, near Tramore CoWaterford
Great Newtown Head and Metal Man, near Tramore County Waterford, Republic of Ireland

Bronze Age
Illustration of objects from a Bronze Age

Chrysina limbata, silver chafer beetle
Silver chafer beetle specimen. The beetles have a base pigment covered by several colourless microscopically thin layers called laminae

Coffee pot used by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous during their first session, in Akron, Ohio, 1935
COFFEE POT, 1935. Coffee pot used by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous during their first session, in Akron, Ohio, 1935

Laboratory clamp. This is used to hold and support laboratory equipment. The clamp is attached to a stand, and its arms are adjusted with the screw mechanism at centre

Gold, Carnon Stream Works, Perranarworthal, Cornwall, England
Gold is a native element and precious metal which has been prized by mankind for thousands of years for its beauty, malleability and resistance to corrosion

One of three miniature metal Sikh kirpan daggers, nd. Blades shaped like pesh-kabz. Hilts of metal rod, with moulding. Believed to be associated with the indian Mutiny (1857-1859)

The Demolition Excavator
Excavators (Hydraulic Excavators) are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the house

Gold Prospecting
Gold prospectors in Australia panning water and silt in search of small nuggets of the precious metal. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire, Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey
A major docklands fire at Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey, SE London. It happened during a particularly cold spell for March. The attack on the fire by a large number of firefighters

IBM 5110 and Omnibot 2000 robot, holding a packet of crisps, on display at the Computer History Museum, USA. The IBM (International Business Machines) 5110 was released in 1975 for $14, 000

England, Tyne and Wear, Angel of the North. The Angel of the North statue near the cities of Gateshead and Newcastle Upon Tyne

Southwest, American Indian art & handicrafts. Navajo blanket, beadwork, turquoise necklace, silver & turquoise belt buckle, 12-century Anasazi Mimbres bowl. PR

Cider Press - Normandy. Two different varieties of press at work - a screw press and a cranked masher

Giant spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, Nervion River, Bilbao, Basque country, Spain, Europe

Vintage Bentley Speed 6 at Locquirec, Brittany, France
Vintage Bentley Speed 6 (6.5 litre) with driver at the wheel in Locquirec, Brittany, north-west France. Date: circa 1960s

Lifeguards on horseback, Horse Guards Parade, London
Lifeguards on horseback in Horse Guards Parade, London. Date: circa 1970s

The Trundholm sun chariot. Early Bronze Age. C. 1400 BC
Prehistory. The Trundholm sun chariot. Early Bronze Age. C. 1400 BC. Scandinavian

Tower Bridge jams in summer heat
Tower Bridge, London, jams when the metal expands in the summer heat on 2 July 1968. The bridge is closed for two hours while firefighters cool it down with their hoses

Trench Art Lighter, WW1
Round Trench Art lighter with officers button on either side

Oval Trench Art lighter, WW1
Oval Trench Art lighter with officers button on either side

Solfar, sun voyager sculpture in Reykjavik, Iceland

Armadillo and Hydro, Pacific Quay, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Blitz in London -- Balham High Road, WW2
Blitz in London -- a bus in a bomb crater over an underground station in Balham High Road, SW London, 14 October 1940

Metal sculpture, Moraira, Spain
A metal sculpture by the seashore in Moraira, Alicante, Valencia Region, Spain

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire, Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey
A major docklands fire at Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey, SE London. It happened during a particularly cold spell for March. The attack on the fire by a large number of firefighters

Jones & Laughlin Steel Works, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jones & Laughlin Steel Works, Monongahela River, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - founded in 1851 by Bernard Lauth and B. F. Jones. Date: circa 1903

Napier Railton Britain

Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Sang Bleu

Southwest, Indian handicrafts. Jemez pottery, 12-century Anasazi Mimbres bowl, Navajo buckle, Navajo bead work & turquoise necklaces, Acoma seed pot. PR

Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart. Mercedes Benz Museum, detail of Mercedes star hood ornament

Landore Viaduct construction, near Swansea, South Wales
View of construction work on the Landore Viaduct, over the Swansea valley and the River Tawe, on the Great Western Railway, Glamorgan, South Wales

The kings two daggers, one with a blade of gold, the other of iron, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

England, Tyne and Wear, Angel of the North. The Angel of the North statue near the cities of Gateshead and Newcastle Upon Tyne

Bessemer converter in Longwy steelworks, France
A Bessemer converter in the Longwy steelworks, France -- a process designed for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron

Mad Metal Robot
THE MAD ROBOT by William P McGivern. A brave man fires a ray-gun at an advancing metal robot with large claws and a brain encassed in a glass-domed head Date: 1944

Cave of Crystals, Naica Mine, Mexico
^BCave of Crystals.^b Geologist in the Cave of Crystals (^ICueva de los Cristales^i) in Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico. The crystals are the largest known in the world

Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis
Noises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929

Collecting Scrap Metal. Conor, William 1881-1968

Dawn breaks over the Forth Rail Bridge, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the Firth of Forth, South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Gears and cogs in the clockwork of a historical pendulum clock, detail, regulator

Building work on the widening of the Swanley Bridge in Kent. 1938

Petrol station, Old Brompton Road, London SW7
Brew Brothers petrol station in Old Brompton Road, London SW7, where a fire and explosion occurred in a basement store, 20 July 1957

Moroccan mint tea pot at a cafe in Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Slice of Canyon Diablo meteorite
Iron meteorites, when sliced open and etched with acid, typically show a distinctive criss-cross pattern called a Widmanstatten pattern. This slice is 15cm across

Metalwork
MODEL RELEASED. Metalwork. Metalworker watching a CNC (computer numerical control) lathe as it machines a metal component. CNC lathes are controlled electronically

Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Sang Bleu

Disused Tin mine, Cornwall
The ruins of a disused Cornish tin mine

Metropolitan Police air raid siren
A Metropolitan Police air raid siren, as used in wartime

Tomando Mate - Argentina
Gaucho taking mate in Argentina. Tomando mate or " taking mate, " is a cultural practice, which refers literally to drinking a semi-bitter herbal infusion of crushed yerba mate leaves in

Typesetter at work
A compositor at a the Lund Humphries print works places a small type glyph on a forme rack, finishing a page of imposing surface text prior to inking and printing. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

American Troops landing on D-Day; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing American troops storming one of the Normandy beaches on D-Day, 6 June 1944. This image shows the first tanks charging through the water to the shore

The Guggenheim, designed by architect Frank Gehry, and giant spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, Bilbao, Basque country, Spain, Europe

Union Workhouse, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
The Newport Pagnell Union workhouse was erected in 1836 at the junction of London Road and North Crawley Road. It later became Renny Lodge Hospital

Alfa Romeo Tipo 158
One of the most successful racing cars ever produced, taking 47 wins from 54 races entered. Driven by great drivers Nino Farina, Juan- Manuel Fangio & Luigi Fagioli

The Angel of the North, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Angel of the North, sculpture by Anthony Gormley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Peacock Gramaphone
Artem Pozdniakov

Tower Bridge jams in summer heat
Tower Bridge, London, jams when the metal expands in the summer heat on 2 July 1968. The bridge is closed for two hours while firefighters cool it down with their hoses

Two young men sorting through a pile of scrap metal
Two young men, one in a top hat, the other in a bowler hat, sorting through a rather unpromising pile of scrap metal in a junk yard

Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women
Sash produced for the Womens Social & Political Union, in the colours of purple, white and green. The sash is made in a heavy woven cotton material with white central panel and borders

Writing desk set with Duralium metal from Zeppelin L32
Writing desk set with glass inkwells, together with a piece of Duralium metal from Zeppelin L32 and a silver plaque engraved L32, Billericay, September 23rd 1916. Commemorative Ware

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"Exploring the Enduring Strength and Beauty of Metal" The Boxer of Quirinal: A masterpiece in metal, this ancient statue showcases the power and grace of a skilled pugilist. "The Thief": Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa's painting captures the allure and mystery surrounding a cunning thief, his eyes gleaming with mischief. Coopers at work: Witness the artistry as these craftsmen shape wooden barrels, their tools clinking against metal hoops to create vessels that hold stories within. Miner at Geevor Tin Mine: Delve into the depths of Cornwall's mining history as a brave miner emerges from underground, covered in sweat and dust but fueled by determination. Gold Rush at Carnon Stream Works: In Cornwall's picturesque landscape, witness nature's alchemy as sparkling gold nuggets are extracted from flowing streams using meticulous metal pans. Perseus and Medusa Statue: Marvel at Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi where this stunning bronze sculpture immortalizes Perseus' heroic triumph over Medusa, capturing every detail in lustrous metal. Sunrise at Clyde Arc (Squinty Bridge): As dawn breaks over Glasgow's iconic bridge, its metallic structure glimmers under golden rays, reflecting resilience amidst urban beauty. Great Newtown Head and Metal Man: Stand alongside Tramore CoWaterford’s rugged coastline where an imposing Metal Man stands tall against crashing waves—a guardian watching over seafarers for centuries. WWI German Gas Mask: Encased in its original metal container lies a haunting relic from World War I—an artifact that symbolizes both protection and destruction during times of conflict. Normandy Landings - June 6th, 1944: Remembering bravery on D-Day when thousands stormed ashore through gunfire; steel helmets glinted amidst chaos while courageous soldiers fought for freedom. The Souk, Marrakech.