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Lion's head 9,4 cm x 10,6 cm Material: Limestone Culture/Time Period: Neo-Assyrian Production Date: ca. 882 BC Findspot: Shamash Temple (Iraq) Source: British Museum

An illustration from the Ramelli’s 1588 book Le diverse et artificiose machine (left). The finished, 600-pound bookwheel, complete with books (right). PUBLIC DOMAIN; MIREYA SALINAS

a soldier’s engraved lighter, vietnam

16th century, Renaissance. Compass  Sundial. original | edit

This is a double snuff box, with both the cover and lid hinged to open. The maps which decorate the box were executed with great accuracy. They detail the geographical situation of the Seven Year's War (1756-63). In Europe, the war involved a struggle for territory between Prussia and Austria. 

Miniature Collector's Cabinet, after composition by Bernard Salomon, c.1600, Germany, dyed and gold-tooled leather on wood, gilt metal, ebony, marquetry woods, mother of pearl, ivory and painted glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Pairs of bellows, Benjamin Pyne, c.1680-85, wood and bone with silver mounts, Ashmolean Museum.