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These are cast-iron awls, meant for embroidery work, together with their carry cases. 17th-18th century, France.
Is this not the best Sailor Moon bullshit you’ve ever seen? I would kill for a planet-power stabby iron ice pick of death.
Someone draw me Musketeer Haruka and Lady in Waiting Michiru with her sewing basket of Terror and Destruction, I beg you!
Source: Inventaire general des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France. Objets Civils Domestiques : Vocabulaire. Principes d'analyse scientifique, 4; Principes d'analyse scientifique, 4. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. 1984. 582.
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Lioness Devouring a Man, Phoenician Ivory Panel, c. 9th-8th century BCE. From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.
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Raphael singles illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano, 1999
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Suehiro Maruo’s illustration for Gurugurueigakan. This man really has done so much work for so many cool bands…
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This just made me feel emotions so intensely, I had to scream as if to let it out.
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Art Deco black crystal perfume bottle, Czechoslovakia, c. 1930
With clear prismbeveled stopper; jeweled silvered metal mount as a spider on web attributed to Turriet & Bardach (bottle & metal marked Austria). 7 1/4 in.
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