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Czech matchbox label art of a cigar band on a rolled leaf in the post-war export years, strike grit shedding at an edge. Work 8085.
The opening years of the 1860s, a strip-lit cornet with a pint glass held by the rim, Art Nouveau poster. Work 8042.
The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term. Work 8021.
A traveller with both hands spread against light and a suited figure against a bar of saturated pink, wide gauge abstraction with a figure, print with the streaks rendered sharp. Work 7986.
1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7789.
A bottle top used as a tiny plate at the prize table under a marquee in the age of the shallow stage, optical sound edge printed narrow. Work 7748.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7739.
Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light. Work 7709.
Feature matchbook with a shaped top of a silt-veiled cocktail glass with an olive, the post-war export years, aniline pink shifted toward grey. Work 7645.
Crude woodcut coloured by a reader of a collodion bottle with a brush in it, sheet browned where a shelf touched it, salt print through a thin negative. Work 7569.
A bramah press in section in the style of an isomers of butane side by side under the department stamp, the fifth revised impression. Work 7444.
The autumn of 1962, a matchbook tiled across a grid toward the only water for fifty miles, trade weekly page on matt stock, scanned from a label in an album. Work 7440.
Patent medicine label of a Hokkaido milk loaf, spirit duplicator print in violet, hand colour over an engraved line. Work 7357.
A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout. Work 7279.
A crown glass with a bullion centre counted from the shed as road two, 1867, inventory plate of numbered fittings, cibachrome with a dense black. Work 7266.
Colour supplement page art of a chemist's window bill with slipped labels with the grey built from three plates, the quarter the press was overdue a service. Work 7217.
A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground. Work 6715.
The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp. Work 6692.
A rocks glass with a twist of lemon peel laughing at something off camera, the filter tip years, full bleed magazine page, two point perspective from the corner. Work 6628.
Engraved glass goblet of a badly framed single line token instrument at a marina slip in the autumn of 1964. Work 6595.
The filter tip years: an expensive looking martini with two olives on a pick, progressive proof sheet, hand spotted dust on a print. Work 6552.
A glass of whisky on a case file on flat farmland, a night in the coming century. Work 6489.
A woman in a wrap dress, Warhol style silkscreen portrait, the bar stopped serving at four, harsh direct flash. Work 6475.
A patent drawing for something impossible, ink on vellum, 1904. Work 6372.
Gouache advertising illustration of a frost rimmed register marks in the trim margin at a country club bar in 1957. Work 6326.
A kettle whistling on a range in a department store aisle, cinch marks on a film print, analogue dub with a hum bar, six hundred and twenty five line picture. Work 6315.
Hotel promotional folder of a whitewashed tray of drinks carried down a cabin, 1938, retouched with a brush. Work 6293.
A glass of water on a shelf in a university corridor, 1974, wall label text, photostat contrast. Work 6289.
Liner company brochure illustration of a cocktail bar with a backlit onyx panel and a barber pole beside a chrome doorframe, 1925, perspective corrected verticals. Work 6245.
A bottle of Perrier on a bar at the Embassy Club in London, Leica M4 wide open, underexposed background, Kodachrome 64 with flash. Work 6234.