Cases Collection (#9)

Packing Easter Lily Buds, Bermuda. Date: 1906

Three Australian Girl Guides check over some of the ingredients at the Girl Guide Headquarters in London this morning. Left to right are: 17-year-old ranger Monica Greenham, Miss D

Muffin with sugary top filled with jam (jelly), broken open to show filling. A muffin masqerading as a doughnut! credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Classic Portuguese muffin type cake made with rice in paper wrapper on metal plate, with cup of black coffee credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Apple struesel muffin in pile on white plate credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Five chocolate muffins decorated with icing sugar in heart shape on white cake stand credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

The flower harvest in the Scilly Isles. Men packing the flowers, narcissi and daffodils, for the London market. 5 March 1920

Lord George and High Explosives. The munitions Act a success. Turning high explosive shell

Pretty heart shaped biscuits in white paper muffin case9 credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Three simple bunches of different coloured sweet peas in tall glasses on old wooden cupboard credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) open and closed fruits, amongst leaf litter on woodland floor, Norfolk, England, September

Common Skate (Dipturus batis) Mermaids Purse eggcase (collection image)

Starry Ray (Amblyraja radiata) Mermaids Purse eggcase (collection image)

Bottlenose Skate (Rostroraja alba) Mermaids Purse eggcase (collection image)

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Newly hatched spiderling with egg cases Date:

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Snail - with packing cases (moving house) Date:

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Snail - with packing cases (moving house) Date:

Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) close-up of fruit, growing in woodland, Vicarage Plantation, Mendlesham, Suffolk, England, August

Hungarian Glider (Neptis rivularis) adult, newly emerged from pupal case, Cannobina Valley, Italian Alps, Piedmont, Italy, May

Common Whelk (Buccinum undatum) eggcases, clump washed up on beach, Gower Peninsula, West Glamorgan, South Wales, March

Caddisfly (Trichoptera sp. ) larvae, in larval cases on rock underwater, River Livet, Glenlivet, Cairngorms N. P
Caddisfly (Trichoptera sp.) larvae, in larval cases on rock underwater, River Livet, Glenlivet, Cairngorms N.P. Highlands, Scotland, January

Slender Spongegoby (Phyllogobius platycephalops) adult, with parasite and egg case attached, resting on sponge, Padar Island, Komodo N.P. Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, March

Total Solar Eclipse, 1851. Members of the Edinburgh expedition on Bue Island, Norway with their instruments set up ready for viewing the eclipse, 28 July 1851

Medical Jurisprudence. Thomas Stevenson, British forensic scientist. Stevenson (1838-1908), a scientific analyst and toxicologist who acted as an expert witness, particularly in poisoning cases

Prohibition or The Noble Experiment 1919-1933: Cases of Whiskey confiscated by the US Internal Revenue Bureau, 1920s

Eighteenth century printing workshop. On the left the compositors are selecting type from cases. In the right foreground a man is inking type locked in a chase ready for the next sheet to be printed

Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) newly hatched caterpillars, group feeding on egg cases, Gorseinon, West Glamorgan, South Wales, August

Cases of pupae of predatory midge, Aphidoletes aphidimyza, after hatching in carrier in a commercial blister pack for biological control

Pere Davids Maple (Acer davidii) close-up of winged seedpods, in garden, Suffolk, England, August

Cultivated Lupin (Lupinus sp. ) close-up of seedpods, in garden, Bacton, Suffolk, England, July
Cultivated Lupin (Lupinus sp.) close-up of seedpods, in garden, Bacton, Suffolk, England, July

Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) close-up of backlit seedpod with seeds, with small spider, in garden

Salt-and-pepper Microcaddisfly (Agraylea multipunctata) larva, final instar in protective case made from secretions, crawling along edge of submerged leaf, Wat Tyler Country Park, Essex, England

Baked puff pastry bouchees, small vol au vents cases

Silver thermometer case, circa 1880 C017 / 0751
Silver case for a medical thermometer. This object is English and dates from around 1880

Lancet case with 2 lancets, circa 1800 C017 / 3588
Silver lancet case with two steel lancets with mother of pearl handles. Lancets are double edged surgical blades with a pointed end

Two lancets and shagreen case, circa 1790 C017 / 3561
Green shagreen (rough, granular surfaced leather) lancet case with two tortoiseshell lancets. Lancets are double-edged surgical blades with a pointed end

Carved horn Lancet case, 18th century C017 / 3553
This lancet case was made in and exported from china in 1790. It is carved from horn with an extremely detailed traditional oriental scene

Etui with three lancets, 18th century C017 / 3565
Silver etui engraved with a lion design and three lancets. Lancets are double edged surgical blades with a pointed end. These instruments were used to open patients veins for bloodletting

Decorative lancet case, circa 1800 C017 / 3572
Silver lancet case with a floral decoration. Lancets are double-edged surgical blades with a pointed end. These instruments were used historically in medicine to open patients veins for bloodletting

Lancets with cases, circa 1790 -1830 C017 / 3578
Two lancets with their cases. The smaller lancet (left) dates from around 1790 and the larger (right), from around 1830. Both lancets are English and made from steel (blade) and tortoiseshell (handle)

Bent thermometer, 19th century C017 / 0737
Unusual bent medical thermometer made from glass with an ivory scale. The morocco case is also shown. This instrument is English and dates from around 1840

Lancet case with lancets, circa 1800 C017 / 3587
Silver lancet case containing tortoiseshell and steel lancets. Lancets are double edged surgical blades with a pointed end. These instruments were used to open patients veins for bloodletting

Two lancets and their case, circa 1790 C017 / 3560
Two lancets with tortoiseshell handles and their silver and fishskin case. These were made in England by Simpson of the Strand around the year 1790

Etui with lancet set, circa 1800 C017 / 3557
Silver etui with two tortoiseshell lancets, a pencil, and a needle with ear scoop. Lancets are double edged surgical blades with a pointed end

Silver etui with 3 lancets, 18th century C017 / 3591
Silver etui engraved with a lion design and three lancets. Lancets are double edged surgical blades with a pointed end. These instruments were used to open patients veins for bloodletting

Immigrants, New York City, 1890s C016 / 8995
Immigrants, New York City, 1890s. 19th-century gelatin silver print of a group of men, including immigrants, on the streets of New York City, USA

Genetic fingerprints, conceptual artwork C016 / 7521
Genetic fingerprints, conceptual computer artwork

The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK C016 / 6116
Gallery of stuffed animals at the Natural History Museum at Tring, UK

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