Kitchen Range
This model of a kitchen range is said to be a Danish heating stove. It is made of metal and has a central grate with an oven door to the left and a tap to the right.
Knife
This is a wooden knife. It is decorated with scorched lines and shapes.
Knife
Stainless steel knife from Bobby's Restaurant. The knife is moulded from one piece of metal. The tip of the blade is round. Mappin & Webb Sheffield is engraved on one side of the blade and Stainless is ...
Knife
A knife, which was made in Sheffield. It has a bone handle and the blade is stamped.
Knitting Patterns
Knitting patterns in a brown envelope, for knitting baby clothes, c.1930-1939. The envelope contains brown paper knitting patterns and a copy of Best Way magazine with instructions for knitting baby clothes ...
Knot Scissors
Pair of steel knot scissors. The tips of the blades have semi-circular indentations for cutting knots. The makers name, Fagan, is stamped on the blade.
Lace Box - open
This wooden box was used to store lace by local author George Eliot. In common with many Victorian ladies George Eliot adorned her clothing with lace.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local ...
Lace Box - sale label
Interesting provenance label on the lid of the lace box. This refers to the sale by the estate of Mrs Charles Lee Lewes at Sotheby's 27 June 1923. [see Painting of Dante for another item from this sale].
This ...
Ladle
This wooden ladle is from Ghana. It has a carved and pierced decorative handle, that features snakes, a frog and a lizard. At the top of the handle there are two carved 'thrones'.
Ladle
This is a rice spoon from Mozambique. It is made of carved wood. It has a deep circular bowl and an arched handle. There is a hole pierced through the end of the handle. The handle is decorated with patches ...
Ladle
This ladle is from South Africa. It is carved from wood, with a deep circular bowl and a long handle.
Ladle
This wooden ladle is from North America. The handle is carved in the shape of a totem-like bird's head, with other similar motifs.
Ladle
A ladle from Malawi.
It is a carved wooden ladle made of dark wood with a decorative carved handle. It is also decorated with incised and white painted lines and shapes. The bowl has been broken and ...
Lager Glass
Tall, straight-sided glass, made in Stourbridge, with engraved shallow cut rose buds, stems and leaves, c.1963.
Lamp
A Scottish Crusie Lamp, made of two iron bowls with angular upward pointing handles. The smaller bowl was used for burning fish oil with a cotton wick which slightly overhung the lip. The lower bowl caught ...
Lamp base
This is a cylindrical lantern with a glazed hinged door on the front. Above this is a pierced chimney with domed top. It has been placed on a later wood plinth and adapted as a table lamp. It comes from ...
Lamp base
This is a tapering cylindrical brass water-can which has been adapted as a table lamp. The maker's name is stamped on the body opposite the handle: DEPOSE E.B. PARIS, FRANCE. It is dated around 1900. ...
Libation Cup
This is a Chinese loving cup, or libation cup. It is made from a Rhinoceros horn that has been shaped like a lotus flower. Libation cups are supposed to be able to detect poison. They do this by sweating ...