Beside the wartime egg a miniature easel, removed from within for the photograph, supported a painting the size of a postage stamp showing the Czar and his son in a grassy field under trees, conferring with the staff generals at the Front.
Circus group in Hastings
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He smoothed the next page to examine his favourite. This was the last egg, the Steel Military Egg of 1916, surmounted by the Imperial crown in gold, executed in blackened steel and poised on the points of four miniature artillery shells.
Centurion tank
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Inside the Romanov Egg, a globe displaying historical maps of the Russian Empire, the landmasses described in gold on a blue sea.
Members of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913 around a Midwinter Day tree at Antarctica, 22 Jun 1911
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His yolk was warm amber in a white crucible. He dipped a soldier in and sucked it.
New Zealander Artillery soldier eating toast in forward areas of the Italian Front
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The Romanov Tercentenary Egg, he read aloud, chased with gold double-headed eagles and crowns framing eighteen miniature likenesses of Romanov rulers within rose diamond borders, rested on a pedestal in the form of the Imperial Eagle.
Display advertising feather products of the Helvetia Ostrich Company Ltd
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With the book propped against the golden runner he tapped his egg with the Apostle teaspoon then sliced off the top. The yolk, just hardened, remained a yellow dome. The white shone inside the top like the lining of a doffed hat.
Two eggs on a table
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The larger books first. The Bible, for instance; the Wonders of the World, the Dictionaries, the Engines of War, the Nautical Knots, the Universe. Fabergé Eggs. He paused, opened it.
The Tell-U-Vision entertainer; the wrestling chart published to create a mind picture and increase your appreciation of the radio broadcasts
Reference number: Eph-D-WRESTLING-1930s-01
Putting his tray on the small table he studied the bookcase.
Charlotte Beatrice Youmans, Interior of St Pauls Cathedral, Wellington
Reference number: C-119-001
He put an egg in boiling water, set the timer and made toast. By the time the egg was done there was a detail of soldiers on the plate, gleaming with butter.
Family breakfasting - Photograph taken by Edward Percival Christensen
Reference number: PAColl-3060-018
On the radio in the kitchen Russia was invading Georgia.
Man with miniature radio
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Rapped again, harder. Two passing schoolgirls looked up, open-mouthed, turned and ran. One dropped her schoolbag, scattering things. Bent double she ran back, grabbing books, bag, phone, as if she were under fire.
The evacuation of Sulva Bay. The burning of a million pounds worth of stores; last lighter coming away as dawn broke
Reference number: A-176-003
Inside was his wife’s first artificial hip. The slim titanium spike gleamed. Ed pointed it at the window. It nosed aside the lace curtain and rapped on the pane.
Mary Elizabeth Dickie, 1905
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He blew dust off the carved lid of a lacquered box.
Living/dining room interior
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