Two-piece wooden mouthpiece for a bellows and wooden strips for pumping the 2 bellows bags. The bellows was sacrificed to the gods in Nydam bog, in Denmark, together with work axes, a plane, weapons and 3 large boats between 200-400 CE. Now housed at the National Museum of Denmark [510×709]April 17, 2025
“Celebrate Japanese Victory” button advertising the Fair Japan Restaurant at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. [2662×1965]April 17, 2025
A metalworkers’ assemblage from a grave at Bygland, Norway, 10th century CE. It contained a wide range of tools, from heavy sledgehammers, small chisels, and punches, to a long-handled iron pan for melting lead and tin resting on a soapstone mould for casting ingots [1525×1046]April 16, 2025
An 1870 painting by Jean-Paul Laurens, depicting the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about 7 months, and which was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, who had Formosus’ corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment in January 897 CE [4000×2659]April 16, 2025
A Roman marble tub sarcophagus, with on each side a depiction of a lion biting a horse and a bestiarius with a spear. 280-290 CE, now housed at the Pio Clementino Museum at the Vatican [1552×2936]April 16, 2025
The West Kennet Long Barrow (100 m long and 20 m wide), built in 3700-3600 BCE and located in Wiltshire in England, is one of the largest chambered long barrows in Europe. It entombed the remains of least 36 people, with the ratio of male and female skeletons being roughly balanced [1200×2106]April 16, 2025
A Missale Romanum Printed in 1493, Venice. The seller neglected to mention that parts of it were illuminated and colored by hand. [3024×4032]April 16, 2025
