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Union News, issue 214
Archive Item

Union News, issue 214

11/05/1962

Hustings Passed Over in U.C. Poll

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Archive Print Item

214 Echinokokkenoperationen. Beitrag zur Pathologie und Therapie der Echinokokkenkrankheit

Guðmundur Magnússon (1863-1924)

[1913]

"Sonder-Abdruck aus dem Archiv fúr klinische Chirurgie Bd.100. Heft 2."

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Archive Print Item

[The year of shame. Proof sheets of poems 2-14 and 16]

Watson, Sir William (1858-1935)

[1897?]

Unbound. With considerable alterations, in the author's hand.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 145-7

Issuer/creator: Marcus Aurelius (161-80)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

before 1947

This cushion cover has been constructed from strips of fabric. A border of geometric floral motifs runs along each edge. In the middle they are attached with crochet work to coloured silk ribbons st...

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Textile

Homo [pattern book]

1903-1904

Hardback with mottled green and black covers and white spine, with pencil inscription on cover. Contains fabric samples with varied polychrome patterns. Mostly woven patterns, some with embroidery o...

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Draperie Deuxième Saison 1956 Envoi E
Textile

Draperie Deuxième Saison 1956 Envoi E

Société des Nouveautés Textiles

1956

Softback with blue covers. Black text on cover. Sample book for the fashion industry of menswear fabric. Contains woven fabric samples of varying weights with polychrome patterning. Most samples ha...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted floral design with a pattern of orange flowers on a blue background

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braid
Textile

braid

c. 1800

Woven braid with raised velvet organic 'rococo' leaf design in red, yellow, green on white, with yellow borders. There is a flaw in the weave across the full length.

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