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Adapted from the ‘Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination’ in The Chemical Atlas Designed for the Use of Students and Pupils in all Schools Where Chemistry is Taught (1854) by Edward L. Youmans. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled...
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A very different kind of colour theory, from the Theosophists. This chart showing the spiritual and mental 'meanings' of colour is adapted from Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater (1905) Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank...
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The perfect card for any Railway enthusiast, this illustration adapted from The Wonder Book of Railways for Boys and Girls (c.1922) demonstrates the system of lamps and discs used on the front of locomotives to identify types of train by their cargo. Printed on acid...
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The US patent application, filed in July 1958, for Lego bricks. Since then, 400 billion blocks have been made! Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card uses an adapted image from The Wonders of Geology, Gideon Algernon Mantell (1839). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card image uses the Spectra of Daylight Through Coloured Glass & Vapours adapted from diagrams by William Allen Miller (1845). Miller also studied the spectrum of starlight and was one of the first scientists to determine what stars are made of. Printed on acid...
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Adapted from the wonderfully titled 1911 manual Handicraft for Handy Boys; Practical Plans for Work and Play with Many Ideas for Earning Money, this is a collection of the most common forms of joints and splices, for the engineers and woodworkers among you. Printed on acid...
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This card uses an Adapted image from The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, Sixth Edition, Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1894). The map is on the front and back of the card. The back of the card includes an index of colours. Printed on...
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Cross-section of the Earth, showing the position of sedimentary and eruptive layers. Adapted from La Terre Avant le Déluge, Louis Figuier (1871). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This image is adapted from a US patent application filed in July 1897 for the first widely available typewriter, designed by Franz Wagner, that featured a ‘front strike’ of the typebars, so that the letters can be seen as they are being typed. Printed on acid...
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The US patent application, filed in August 1951, for the first commercially successful solid-bodied electric guitar - a moment that changed the sound of country, blues and rock for ever. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside....
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Adapted from a 1901 publication by The Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, or BASF, now the largest chemical company in the world, showing the effects of their commercially produced aniline dyes on cotton, silk and wool. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12...
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We're big fans of Bees here at Present Indicative HQ, so we couldn't resist this card showcasing twelve different species. Bee-autiful! Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card image uses Rose Synoptique (1890) by Charles Lacouture. Lacouture was a keen colour theorist and attempted to use three primary colours to create all hues, not by varying the tint of the inks, but by changing the density of intersecting and parallel lines. Printed...
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This gorgeous colour illustration is adapted from A.W. Faber’s 1897 stationery catalogue. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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The image is adapted from US patent application, filed in March 1977 for an improvement in the design of the compact cassette. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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The card's image is adapted from Gately’s Universal Educator (1883). The graphic continues onto the back of the card, displaying the ‘Western Hemisphere’. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from The Household Physician: a twentieth century medica. A practical description in plain language of all the diseases of men, women and children with latest discoveries in medicine and most approved methods of treatment (1905). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12...
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This colour theory diagram (1810) by Philipp Otto Runge makes a lovely card. Runge was one of the first colour theorists to incorporate variations in brightness into the colour wheel, creating colour spheres.. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm...
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Adapted from a late eighteenth century line engraving. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card uses an anatomy of the human arteries, adapted from Diderot and d’Alembert (1762). Wellcome Library, London. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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A fantastic card with images adapted from US patent application, filed in May 1959, for a child’s coaster - which become known as a skateboard. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card bears an iconic image: Ernö Rubik's US patent application for the Rubik's Cube in January 1975. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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James Sowerby’s A New Elucidation of Colour (1809) makes an artistic card. Sowerby’s theories of colour mixing anticipated modern printing techniques and were a significant influence on Turner (1905). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This coloured line engraving from the seventeenth century spells out ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THEE’ in the fingerspelling alphabet, part of British Sign Language. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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‘Principles of Proportion’, adapted from the illustration in to 1905 edition of Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student, Craftsman and Amateur. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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This card features a vintage print across both front and back of the card of the forty-one highest buildings of 1891, together with a key to names and heights. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Not everyone wants to be reminded that they're getting older, not to mention the hassle of having to organise something 'fun'. Show your sympathy with their point of view by acknowledging 'To Hell with Birthdays' ...what's in a number anyway? Adapted from a 19th-century lithograph...
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This card image uses the Trilobe Synoptique (1890) by Charles Lacouture. Lacouture was a keen colour theorist and believed primary colours generate other colours by mixing like sound waves. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from several illustrations of owls in A Description of the Nature of Birds, by Jan Jonston (1650). Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from an eighteenth century coloured etching in the Wellcome Collection. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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'Every truly cultured music student knows, You must learn your scales and your arpeggios', but before do, re, mi came the Greek modes. Adapted from Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1810) you too can know your Doric from your Lydian. Also includes the Circular System for all Major and...
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An image adapted from The Marine Mammals of the North-Western Coast of North America, described and illustrated, (1874) by Charles Melville Scammon. From top to bottom: humpback, common minke (sharp-headed finner), grey and fin whales. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes...
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This luscious image of a lemon is adapted from an 1891 watercolour by Deborah Griscom Passmore. Passmore painted more than a thousand detailed watercolours of fruit for the US Department of Agriculture, where she led a team of artists. Original work courtesy National Agricultural Library,...
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One of the most recognisable names in piano manufacture, this 1884 patent design was submitted by Theodore Steinway for the 'invent[ion of] certain new and useful Improvements in Piano-Fortes', the improvements related to the construction of the frame, and was granted in March 1885. Printed...
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A vivid diagram of a section though the Atlantic, from Mexico to Senegal (or "Senegambia"), via Cuba, Hispaniola and the Cape Verde Islands among others. Adapted from The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology by Matthew Maury, 1874. A double-sided card. Printed on...
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Adapted from an 1891 watercolour by Deborah Griscom Passmore. Passmore painted more than a thousand detailed watercolours of fruit for the US Department of Agriculture, where she led a team of artists. Original work courtesy National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture....
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Adapted from a watercolour by Amanda Almira Newton (1911). Newton painted more than a thousand detailed watercolours of fruit for the US Department of Agriculture. Original work courtesy National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm...
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Adapted from an illustration by Joseph Gwilt showing the classical orders, from William Chambers' 1862 A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from Encyclopaedia Londinensis (1810), this collection of six bowed, stringed instruments include a mixture of Medieval and Renaissance/Baroque instruments as well as those still in common usage today: Violin, Rebec, Crwth, Viola d'Amore, Violincello and Viola da Gamba. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17...
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This is adapted from an 1891 watercolour by Deborah Griscom Passmore, who painted more than a thousand detailed watercolours of fruit for the US Department of Agriculture, where she led a team of artists. Original work courtesy National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, US Department...
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A 1797 coloured etching by J. Pass, after the original illustration of 'Aptenodytes, The Patagenian Penguin' by the celebrated naturalist, George Edwards (1694–1773). From the Wellcome Collection. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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The only lithograph of American ballerina Cecilia McBride (d.1846), by John B. Pendleton, one of America's earliest lithographers. Our Present Indicative HQ researchers have not been able to find any further details about this dancer - use this card to send us any information you...
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A prickly pear (Opuntia species): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass (c.1800), after J. Ihle. From the Wellcome Collection. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements: 17 cm x 12 cm.Comes with 120gsm recycled envelope.Blank inside.
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Adapted from an illustration in Elements of Botany by Robert Thornton (1802). The 'poet's daffodil', among the first to be cultivated and one of the candidates for the narcissus after which the mythological figure was named. Printed on acid free paper. Measurements: 17 cm x...
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In 1841 a painting appeared in Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method for the Student, Craftsman and Amateur - C R Cockerell's fantasy of all Wren's buildings gathered together. This card is adapted from the outline key to that illustration. Printed on acid...
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We are all made of. . . well, mostly not minerals. But this colourful Mineralogist is comprised of the rocks and crystals that they are studying. This 19th-century lithograph by GE Madeley, after G Spratt, is from the Wellcome Collection. Printed on acid free paper.Measurements:...
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One of 38 designs for a kit home featured in the brochure Popular Small Homes (1941), marketed by the JH Patterson Co. lumber yard, Illinois. Plans for these ‘ready-cut houses’ came in numerous styles, including Bungalow, English Cottage, Colonial Revival, Prairie School and Storybook, offering...
