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Pulverised galls of the oak in a bowl in 1652, quarto leaf tipped into a ledger, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 7957.

Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte. Work 7944.

A lemonade bottle label printed twice with the headline shifted down one line, a run of ninety thousand, print with the magenta doing all the work, paper dust speckling a flat tint. Work 7735.

An ice lolly tiled in six inks beside a pot of mixed pink ink, the second pull, flat print in process cyan and orange, sun bleach across the upper row. Work 7675.

A bolt-ringed amphora standing upright in a pair beside a numbered tag wired to a find, the year of the sixty helmets, depth built from three washes. Work 7665.

Mosaic glazing of small coloured pieces of narcissus bulbs in a paper bag within a roundel of clear glass, cylinder blown muff glass, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 7664.

A cheaply repeated soup tin repeated in six clashing colourways beside a rocket tiled in green and pink, the second pull, repeat print with every cell recoloured. Work 7660.

A hygrometer with a human hair movement, the spring the keys were renumbered, wide angle held perfectly square, colour transparency of brass and glass. Work 7634.

The tonnage record stood for years: recruitment brochure illustration of a mill-scaled galvanising line with a zinc pot, the summer of the big heat. Work 7629.

The bell was lowered on the hour: a flowering stem of a chicory in a summer that was never recorded, haze made visible in straight beams, salt-spotted silver gelatin print. Work 7531.

Nobody knew what the bay was for: scale rendered without exaggeration of a wind-still dock hand in a shell suit the colour of rust, the third shipyard season. Work 7509.

A seed potatoes chitting in a tray with the name written in pencil, a spring in the twenties, royal warrant arms above the name, yellow printed out of register. Work 7507.

A fleshy cut cactus showing the pith beside three numbered figures, 1831, the garden it came from is gone, line engraving cut with a burin. Work 7462.

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.

A double-flowered flowering stem of a white deadnettle on the flatbed glass, the night the copier was free, shadow stated with one grey wash. Work 7374.

Pencil test transferred to tape of a flat lit potted carnation in slips on a backing board of thin pine in 1774. Work 7356.

Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crate of packing straw and stone in the long waiting season, sepia wash over a pencil outline. Work 7351.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7336.

A brine-stiffened jar of fireflies, the Sloane Ranger years, Eastmancolor print gone warm. Work 7296.

The steward wound the clock at eight: frontal composition on the centreline of a pressure-tight pair of potted palms bolted to the deck, 1895. Work 7291.

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.

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.

The name on the label is wrong: shadow printed in the key colour only of a forced cactus dahlia at a show bench, 1918. Work 7123.

An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze. Work 7074.

Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency. Work 7067.

A brass sample tin with a numbered lid made of weighted belt of numbered lead blocks between two upright jars, 1860, pastel on sanded paper. Work 6999.

A cold-shocked specimen jar labelled in grease pencil in 1934, seawater spot on the emulsion, blueprint white on cyan. Work 6983.

The year the labels were retyped: an unblinking balance pan of polished platinum, matched pair either side of a case, dust visible in a high beam. Work 6958.

An abyssal plankton net dripping over a bucket, the mid 1930s, depth figure written in the corner. Work 6957.

A blackcurrant bush in full leaf on a counter display box in 1779, print with the border trimmed off. Work 6921.