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10 photos and 11 illustrations tagged treasure, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

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• publicdomain
• bldigital
• vol0
• mechanicalcurator
• chest
• vintage
• sherlocknet:tag=form
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• pubplacelondon
• medium
• old
• japan
• japanese
• sherlocknet:tag=london
• sherlocknet:category=organism
• woman
• large
• sherlocknet:tag=house
• sherlocknet:tag=grand
• sherlocknet:category=landscapes
• art
• postcard
• kenchioji
• sherlocknet:tag=country

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• British Library 9 photos & illustrations
• National Museum of Denmark 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 2 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration

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Heap of pearl shells at Darnley Island ca. 1948

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Shell found in or about coral reef bottom is hard and of good quality, although subject to these borers. Shell along the east coast of York Peninsula is very like the Papuan coast shell but is much larger and heavier when fully grown. The deep-water shell of Darnley Island waters is really a reef shell. The best quality is found on what is known as the old ground, which covers the area over the western approach to Torres Strait. The sea-bed, affected by the waste from the coast and by discharge from rivers, appears to affect the quality of the mother-of-pearl shell. The beautiful colouring of the pearl shell is divided into two general classes: white or silver-lipped and gold or orange-lipped. The white-lipped shell is the natural shell without the gold-lip colouring. The latter colouring extends over the entire back of the shell, penetrating a more or less shallow distance into the nacre, and then right to the thin outer edge, hence "lip." Gold-lip shell is some pounds sterling per ton of less value commercially than silver-lipped. Source: anglicanhistory.org/aus/white1918/05.html

Kunstschatten in de Sint Pietersberg

from Nationaal Archief

• batvoca said:

  Photoreport Pietersberg, where during the war the art treasures of the Rijksmuseum were stored in a cave

• ru said:

  fantastic shot

• Keen Bike said:

  Too bad, that the descriptions are just unilingual =/

• Not tellin' said:

  I'm a member of a research and study group and would love to use this photo in a report I'm going to be writing up on a visit we did.

Untitled

from Smithsonian Institution

• Carolyn B said:

  Looks like a Japanese lacquerware storage box. (Someone at the Sackler would know just by looking at this ;o)