Category: Art and Artists

Up to snuff

A Pandora’s box that contained toxic tobacco. This Gem is a miller’s snuff-box, inlaid with a beautiful and intricate windmill...

Artist, soldier, criminal, monk

This sketch was drawn by the eccentric and enigmatic Karl Wood, only two years before he was sent to prison....

Theatre of machines

One of the oldest books in our collection, a guide for centuries of millwrights. This fascinating Gem is an enormous...

Mill of old age

Some mills have miraculous powers. This postcard was produced by the Belgium publisher Marco Marchovici in the early 20th century....

Appreciative penmanship

After a lifetime of milling, William Cornwell was presented with this attractive certificate. This attractive certificate was presented to William...

Your fate is like that of man

“You worked blindly and towards an unknown end; but your end was certain.” This beautiful watercolour is from a collection...

A direct hit

‘By a piece of singular good fortune, no one was killed.’ This book called A Train Errant shines a light on a...

A brush with death

“It was then that she heard the bloodcurdling screams of her stricken husband.” This contemporary sketch was sold following a...

Tales in timber

An American frigate lost and found. This sketch of Chesapeake Mill is by John Munnings, the nephew of Sir Alfred...

Napoleon’s folly

A supposed French invasion craft designed to cross the channel during the Napoleonic Wars. In the late 1790s, Britain was...

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