At first I thought these were guard stones, but then I realized their placement is not very typical for guard stones, which were placed at the corners of entranceways to protect the corners of the buildings from the wheels of carriages. Later I was told they are actually old cannon, […]
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Two ads for PKO [Poland’s largest bank], likely from the 1970s. The first one is advetising bankboos.
In Lviv’s Passage Andreolli, which leads from 28 Rynok Square (built 1760s-1770s) to Teatralna Street, is a chain (handcuff or fetter) that once was in front of the City Hall. Women were chained to it by the arm or leg so that they would think about their behavior.
This neck ring is attached to a pillar of the Town Hall in Tallinn. It was used to punish people for small crimes.
At first I thought these were hitching rings, but my friend in Tallinn explained that they were in fact used as part of the defense system of the Old Town. Some sort of rope or chain would have been tied from one ring to another one attached to the building […]
I think these are hitching rings near a medieval door in Tallinn’s old town.
A sampling of anchor plates in Tallinn.
A sampling of anchor plates from Riga. I especially like the ones shaped like anchors.
A sampling of guard stones from Riga, Latvia. Btw, cannon are also used as guard stones in Riga.
A sampling of guard stones in Tallinn, Estonia.
I found a few vault lights in Tallinn made by а Russian company before the Russian Revolution. The inscription says: “С.-Петербургское стекольно-промышленное акц. о-во” The St. Petersburg Glass Work Manufacturing Company (Санкт-Петербургское стекольно-промышленное акціонерное общество) existed between 1911 and 1918, but as St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd in 1914, it […]
