Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) Finish:10-pack designed by Joseph Cubitt

designed by Joseph Cubitt

A 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300

Tyburn turnpike was situated at the junction of what is now Bayswater Road and Oxford Street

Many Yoemen Wards - Yoeman of the Guard - attended the wedding in state dress

Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) Finish:10-pack designed by Joseph CubittBoth pictures on this plate are part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's treatise on the 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi'. The upper image depicts 'A Gift offered to all diligent Physicians The manner of concentrating and amending of Metals by Nitre' (the distilling vessel is designed as 'a Man made of Iron, having two noses on his head'). The lower picture shows the furnace used in 'a Gift presented to rich Merchants', again involving the use of nitre