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Goblet-shaped decorated mortar with pestle

1600-1800

Enema syringe

1701-1800

Cylindrical mortar with pestle

1600-1900

Executioner's mask, Portugal, 1501-1800

1501-1800

Syrup jar

1701-1800

General António Óscar Fragoso Carmona

1942

Medal commemorating Luiz de Camoes

1880

Portuguese medicine cabinet

1650-1800

Rigged Model of a Portuguese Felucca

1850-1904

Votive right hand, Portugal, 2017

2017

Votive left leg, Portugal, 2017

2017

Model of a Portuguese 'Muletta' Fishing Boat

1850-1905

Pre-production model of a Howden HWP 300 Wind Turbine and Landrover

1980-1983

Albarello Portuguese 18th century blue and white maiolica

1701-1800

Albarello, blue tin-glazed earthenware

1651-1750

Albarello vase for terra sigillata, Portugal, 1701-1800

1701-1800

General António Óscar Fragoso Carmona

1942

Medal for inauguration of D. Maria Pia Railway Bridge over the Douro

1877

Medal for Inauguration of Minho railway, Portugal

1875

Medal for establishment of Royal Company of Silk Weavers

1802

Medal for inauguration of railway from Leste to Lisbon

1856

Carved wooden figure of Virgin Mary with infant Christ

1600-1750

Votive ear, Portugal, 2017

2017

Crocodile-shaped iron cork press, Portugal, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Earthenware Albarello or Drug Jar

1620-1750

Albarello, perhaps Portuguese 18th century

1650-1780

Albarello, Spanish or Portuguese

1650-1780
Poster from Portugal, 1992, anonymous. "Life without AIDS" shows a couple holding hands.

Life without AIDS

1992
Poster from Portugal, 1992, anonymous. "AIDS - inform yourself" shows 2 people about to kiss.

AIDS - inform yourself

1992
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "As the Sun Sets." Originally published in Picture Post, September 15, 1956. Story titled "Where the Rice is Sweet", about rice harvesting in Portugal. Caption in magazine reads: "As the sun sets the last rice is carried onto the wagons. Once its cultivation, thought to spread malaria, was banned. Now it is a major item in the trade balance." Photographer's stamp on verso.

As the Sun Sets

1956
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980 in Portugal. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Portuguese Railway (CP) tank engine passing with passenger coaches and goods van. Shot of a station building. Mallet type 0-4-4-0 tank engine reversing into a station. Another tank engine reversing into the station with a passenger train. Shot filmed from the window of a passenger train as another passes. 4-6-0 arriving at a large station with another passenger train. CP 96 stands in a station. Close up of the number plate on the chimney and the Henschel & Sohn builders plate. Shots from the footplate of engine shed and station. Guard boarding and driver starting the train. Shots from the footplate, train passing industrial buildings, countryside. Shots of driver operating the controls to stop the train at a small station.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 24, railway footage, Portugal

1968-1980
Multi-lingual leaflet, in English, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese giving an emergency number to call if you have symptoms of COVID-19, been in contact with an infected person or have returned from China, collected on 7 March 2020 from the Grand Hotel Acores Atlantico, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal.

Multi-lingual leaflet, giving an emergency number to call if you have symptoms of COVID-19

2020
Washing bag, Guppyfriend polyester mesh washing bag and cardboard packaging, designed to catch microplastic fibres from clothing in washing machines, made by Langbrett, bag manufactured in Italy, Portugal and Poland, packaging manufactured in Germany, 2018. The bag was used in a 2020 research study led by Imogen Napper at the University of Plymouth.

Guppyfriend washing bag

2018
Collection of ten specimens of radioactive minerals: Allanite from South Africa, Carnotite from USA, Davidite from Mozambique, Granite from Cornwall, Kolm from Sweden, Monazite sand from India, Pitchblende (with alteration products) from Portugal, Samarskite from Kenya, Uraninite from the Congo, Uraninite (with alteration products) from Tanzania.

Collection of ten specimens of radioactive minerals: Allanite from South Africa

Rhinoceros horn cup, straight sides tapering to base, short stem, round foot, possibly Portugese

Rhinoceros horn cup

Silver gelatin print by Édouard Boubat, titled "Femmes aux fleurs", 1958. Image shows a Portuguese woman balancing a basket of flowers on her head. This photographed has been cropped from the original version which contains two women. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Femmes aux fleurs

1958
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980 in Portugal. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Shots from steam locomotive footplate, passing alongside a large lake. Two locomotives at a station, locomotive Portuguese Railways (CP) number 095, taking on water. Shots from the footplate, train continuing journey, passing freight train heading in opposite direction. Passing a diesel locomotive at a station stop. The engine crew cooking. Steam hauled passenger train hauled by CP number 094 passing. Train continuing alongside a lake before passing through a tunnel, arriving at a large station. CP number 294 at a large station. Close up shots of details on the locomotive. Mallet type tank engine passing with a goods train. Shots from the footplate of a locomotive passing alongside a hill, passing by a lake. The driver filmed stopping train at station.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 7, railway footage, Portugal

1968-1980
Perforated plate of Radium water filter, of earthenware and glass, possibly Portugese, 1901-1930

Perforated plate of Radium water filter

1901-1930
Archive of correspondence etc. concerning Robert Johnson's involvement as a freelance civil engineer with railway building in Brazil, Portugal and elsewhere. Some 120 letters, copy letters, memoranda, estimates, sketch plans etc. (including correspondence from Brassey, Vignoles and Portuguese officials). The bulk of the papers relate to the involvement of British engineers and contractors in the building of some of Portugal's earliest railways.

ROBERT JOHNSON ARCHIVE

1858-1862