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Spacewarp is a line of build-it-yourself, marble-run toy "roller coasters" first made in the 1980s by Bandai. [1] Users cut lengths of track to the correct size from a single roll of thick plastic tubing, forming curves and loops held in place by plastic track rail holders which attach to metal rods held vertical in a black plastic base.
A dutchman, or in some uses graving piece, is a matching piece of good material used to replace a relatively small damaged area that has been cut out of a larger item, to avoid having to replace the entire item; or, any of various techniques for accomplishing such a repair.
Thomas Lyte is an English luxury brand specialising in gold and silverware, sporting trophies and leather accessories. [1] [2]The company has designed, made or restored many well known trophies and medals, such as the football’s FA Cup, golf’s Ryder Cup and rugby’s RBS 6 Nations and Webb Ellis Rugby World Cup and the Louis Vuitton America's Cup Challenger Playoff Trophy.
The Woodlawn Vase on display before The Preakness Stakes in 2002, note a Black-eyed Susan glass is set in photo to give a size comparison. Standing 36 inches tall and weighing 400 ounces of solid sterling silver (approx. 30 pounds), the Woodlawn vase has a colorful history as rich as the classic race at which it is presented.
Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...
The Son of Baalshillek marble base is a Punic language inscription on a marble statue base discovered in 1856–58 at Carthage in Tunisia. It was first published by Nathan Davis, and the one-line inscription is known as KAI 84 and CIS I 178. Davis wrote that "This tablet is peculiar, as well for its material (white marble) as for its inscription.
Detail of the Eglinton Trophy A contemporary photograph showing the trophy in its case in the castle's library.. The 4 foot 8 inch (140 cm) high trophy, weighing in at 1600 ounces (45 kg), was designed by Edmund Cotterill (1795–1860), made in a medieval Gothic style by Messrs. R & S Garrard, Silversmiths of London at a cost then of £1,775 (£78,277 in modern terms) [3] and took four years ...
The Kentucky Derby Trophy is a set of four trophies that are awarded to the winning connections of America's most famous race: the grade one $3,100,000 Kentucky Derby.The owner receives a gold trophy while the trainer, the jockey and the breeder win a silver half size replica of the main gold trophy.