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6 lancets

1801-1900

Cocktail by Rafael Alonso

2018

Tropical Sunburst by Rafael Alonso

2018
Sets of brass nested cup weights without case for 2 Portugese Pound from the Castlereagh Collection for Rio Janeiro (Brazil).

Nested cup weights, brass

1800-1818
Sets of brass nested cup weights without case for 2 Portugese Pound from the Castlereagh Collection for Rio Janeiro (Brazil).

Nested cup weights, brass

1800-1818
800 feet plastic canister, colour, silent footage. Reel starts with shots taken in Southampton, filmed from slightly high view points, different angle, city, roofs, church, factory Montague L. Meyer Ltd Timber ; a coast filmed from a boat/ship, 2 women and a man on a ship, shots of coasts with mountains in background ; shot in harbour ship 'Hanseatic'sailing ; group of people/tourist on little boats ; shot in hotel/building court (spinish style and spanish sign plus one in english: wine tasting) shots in city, streets, palm trees ; Few feet of leader ; shots in busy streets, tourist, man walking, woman taking pictures, small harbour ; shot of a safety boat lifted on ship ; people sunbathing on bridge of cruise ship ; passing by desertic coast, then populated coast ; panorama of coast with a funicular, people getting of ship, with sign '29 lines, Arcadia, Salvador, 20 May 1968', Salvadorian port, fishermen, local life, tourists hotel, shots taken from high window/point, overview of city, coast ; shots taken from moving car, landscapes ; Splice ; filmed from cruise ship, toursits, sunset on sea ; panorama of Rio de Janeiro (?) ; few feet of leader ; different shots of city, streets filmed from moving car , Rio de Janeiro (war memorial), motorway, tunnel, telepheric to a mountain top ; different panoramic views of Rio (Christ statue) ; Splice ; shots taken from moving car ; waterfall, mountain, Rio de Janeiro ; shots on cruise ship, animation for tourist, show, people throwing other in the ship's pool ; shots on land, Dakar/Senegal (Clairafrique bookshop, chambre de commerce...) different shots on street, local population and tourist from cruise ; further shots of coast ; shots on ship of arrival at Southampton docks ; shots taken from moving car passing Stonehenge site

Original 16mm amateur film 'Ships'

1968
'Very Nice' inkjet print on paper by Rafael Alonso, 2018. Representing a powerful tropical sun, a circle fills the top two thirds of the print, with a vibrant gradation of colour running from yellow at the top, through the rainbow to blue. The background grades contrastingly from pale orange at the bottom to dark at the top.

Very Nice by Rafael Alonso

2018
Original 16mm amateur colour silent films, made by Glyn Thomas between 1962 and 1986. The railway footage were taken during journeys with ‘Ian Allan Rail Tours’ and last steam train trips on lines due to be closed as a consequence of the Beeching cuts, especially in England and Wales (Vales of Neath Railway; Cynheidre) – not all the locations were identified. Other films were shot abroad: a cruise on a P&O steamship, departing from Southampton for Rio de Janeiro with scenes shot at the ports of calls Salvador, Dakar, Senegal; footage taken in South England and France (including a railway station); aerial shots taken through planes’ windows, and footage of Sydney (Australia) and Gibraltar.

Original 16mm amateur films of railways, travel abroad and steamship

1962-1986
Associated Press wirephoto taken on 7 August 1969. Image shows a Brazilian commando on a cross, undergoing a torture test during an antiguerilla training course in the mountains north of Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

Brazilian commando undergoes torture test

07 August 1969