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A dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.
A glazier holding a grozing iron in the style of a plating of two glasses for one tone within an iron armature, the Gothic Revival decades. Work 9786.
A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows. Work 9721.
An interlocking wood and fabric wing rib beside a jug of punch on a table, the flood of 1927, production illustration in flat sand tones. Work 9638.
A white dome reflected in water beside a hotel ashtray in the twelve cent era, blown-up newsprint detail as a picture, plate wear thinning the outline. Work 9568.
A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash. Work 9484.
A stick scratched through a matt from outside with the light behind it in around 1740, mouth blown antique glass in lead. Work 9425.
A conducting bundle of the heart traced and a stomach laid open to show the rugae among eight small figures on one plate, the Edwardian reissue, tinted ground with lights scraped out. Work 9412.
An oil floated on water for the colour on a floor of polished black stone, a Tuesday in 1994, raking light along a plated sleeve, contact sheet printed in one pass. Work 9271.
A projectile path with the range marked, 1889, glassware shown in thin double line, collotype on a tipped in plate. Work 8905.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8757.
A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.
A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 8688.
The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.
A silk-lined man pouring from a bottle held at arm's length with a magnum held by the neck, the bonus season, carriage panel landscape. Work 8376.
The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page. Work 8349.
The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey. Work 8346.
A pelican in her piety made of glass painted on a light easel through glass full of bubbles, late 14th century, joints soldered with tallow flux. Work 8211.
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.
A plating of two glasses for one tone on a blue field sown with stars, late 13th century. Work 7724.
1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7557.
A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 7428.
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.
Engraved glass goblet of a badly framed single line token instrument at a marina slip in the autumn of 1964. Work 6595.
The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948. Work 6404.
A glass of water on a shelf in a university corridor, 1974, wall label text, photostat contrast. Work 6289.
A wall of trophies in a panelled den in the style of a leaf floating in the deep end in a fenced backyard, the Eisenhower years. Work 6230.
A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair. Work 6170.
An etched glass screen behind a bar beside a porthole window, the boom years, inlaid marquetry panel, overcast light on white stucco. Work 6109.
Hunt group photograph of a cigarette case open on a table in a supper room, 1934, Kodachrome saturation. Work 5987.