Distinguishing Victorian Era furniture
A lot of people will point to a house and go “Ooh, that’s Victorian”… and well do that for pretty much every old thing they see [at least around here, haha]. It’s much more proper to say antique[something of 100+ years], if you don’t know the era that particular building or antiquity is coming from.
British soldiers at the Sphinx in Egypt. In 1882 the British army converged on Cairo and then took control of the Suez Canal which gave them a quick route to the wider Empire. Egypt did not formally become a part of the British Empire but was known as a Protectorate and remained under British control for 70 years.
A ‘sportsman’s knife’ which was displayed at the Great Exhibition. It had a carved mother-of-pearl handle and 84 blades and other instruments.
