Sickle Collection

Lenin, (c1930), (1939). Creator: Aleksandr Gerasimov
Lenin, (c1930), (1939). Portrait of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)

COMMUNIST POSTER, 1967. Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever! Poster by Viktor Ivanov, Soviet Union, 1967

Bust of Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese socialist flag, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Druid carrying mistletoe and a sickle. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Feudal lord instructing peasant workers
Peasants receiving their lords orders before going to work, 1400s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a manuscript miniature illustration

The Farming Year by Pauline Baynes
The Farming Year, painted in the style of a medieval stained glass window by Pauline Baynes, showing the agricultural activities of a farmer of the Middle Ages month by month

The meridian Line also known as The Siesta, 1888-1889 (Oil on Canvas)
7212109 The meridian Line also known as The Siesta, 1888-1889 (Oil on Canvas) by Gogh, Vincent van (1853-90); Musee d Orsay, Paris, France; (add.info.: The meridian Line also known as The Siesta)

Druids (ancient Priests) collect mistletoe
The Druids were highly respected by the Britons because of their wisdom and used to collect mistletoe to give to people on feast days

The Chamber Idyll, 1831. Creator: Edward Calvert
The Chamber Idyll, 1831

The Song of the Lark, 1884 (oil on canvas)
2970015 The Song of the Lark, 1884 (oil on canvas) by Breton, Jules (1827-1906); 110.6x85.8 cm; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA; Henry Field Memorial Collection; French, out of copyright

Druids cut mistletoe
A druid cuts a bunch of mistletoe from the branch of a tree with a golden sickle, the mistletoe dropping into a sheet held below

Japanese ways of chivalry: a display of ancient fighting methods by the Budokwai in London at the Aeolian Hall

Summer (From the series The Four Seasons), c. 1644. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Monument to Arctic exploration - Archangel
Russia, Arkhangelsk (Archangel) - Monument to Arctic exploration and explorers. 2010

Communism in Russia 1934
Standing by to hoist the flag when Europe turns communist may mean a long wait, but at least its a steady job!

Two nude children standing; from New Book of Children, 1720-60

The Harvest, c1900s. Creator: Auguste Leveque
The Harvest, c1900s

Settlers working the land, 12th century. Engraving after a miniature in a manuscript called de la Sainte-Chapelle

Agricultural tools for harvest
PCT4265123 Agricultural tools for harvest. Plate of a volume of illustrations of the Diderot Encyclopedie, original edition 1762

Peasant with a sickle and a wheat epi
IMB4933655 Peasant with a sickle and a wheat epi. by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Peasant with a sickle and a wheat epi.); © Imagebroker

Picture series Moonlight Episodes, Silence is the first civic duty, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Sickle spurge (Euphorbia falcata), medicinal plant, historical chromolithography, around 1796

Germany, Berlin, 20 October 1991, Allied military bands in front of the Brandenburg Tor, the Soviet musicians, Europe

Germany, Berlin, 13 August 1991, East Side Gallery, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Europe

GDR, Berlin, 22 May 1990, at the GDR border crossing at Check Point Charlie, GDR emblems, Welcome to the capital of the GDR

Germany, Berlin, 17.01.1991, window with stained glass, Audimax of the Humboldt University, socialist motifs: Lenin, Karl Marx, Europe

Germany, Berlin, 23 June 1991, Lichtenberg District Court (right next to the Stasi headquarters in Normannenstrasse), GDR emblems and prop cases, (filming in the building)

GDR, Berlin, 13 June 1990, demolition of the Wall on the historic Bernauer Strasse, crane, GDR emblems, watchtower, © Rolf Zoellner

Woman with sickle and straw, 1910s, handcoloured, Germany, Europe

Landscape at the Baltic Sea near Zelenogradsk or Kranz, Kaliningrad Oblast, night, crescent moon, forest, coast, lonely idyll, Russia, historical illustration 1880, Europe

Fritz Reuter (1810) (1874) Low German writer and poet, Hanne Nuete un de luette Pudel, Eine Vogel, und Menschengeschichte, Platt, Low German, dialect, language, poet, poem, literary figure, graphic

Fritz Reuter (1810) (1874) Low German writer and poet, Hanne Nuete un de luette Pudel, Eine Vogel, und Menschengeschichte, Platt, Low German, Low German, dialect, language, poet, poem

Deer with calf, Hubertus hunt, hunting scenes, wild animals, forest, clearing, night, crescent moon, pack, nature, historical illustration around 1860

The four lepers find the camp abandoned, camp, huts, eat, drink, silver, gold, clothes, booty, steal, horses, tents, night, crescent moon, Bible, Old Testament, Second Book of Kings, chapter 7

Capercaillie, Hubertus hunting and hunting scenes, wild animals, conifer, branch, crescent moon, sweep dress, sitting, beak, claws, nature, historical illustration around 1860

Historical illustration, you will turn your swords into ploughshares and your spears into sickles from an ancient Bible, Holy Scripture, Germany, Europe

Fall of the Berlin Wall, construction workers removing a GDR symbol in East Berlin, 1990, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Agriculture, group of farmers with sickles and flails during hay harvesting, 1920s, exact place unknown, Germany, Europe

Historical photograph, Sickle shaped shield fern (Polystichum falcatum), Karl Blossfeldt, Urformen der Kunst, The original art

Oak at Hirzelpass, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe

Grape harvest, province of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, Europe

Waxing crescent moon seen with telescope

Finsteraarhorn, 4274 m, Switzerland, Europe

August Calendar Page; Reaping; Psalter, mid-1200s. Creator: Unknown
August Calendar Page; Reaping; Psalter, mid-1200s

Calendar Page for July: Reaping: Leo; Book of Hours, about 1450-1455

A Man Reaping; Book of Hours, about 1415-1420
A Man Reaping; Leo; calendar page, Book of Hours, about 1415-1420

Sickles
DGA501977 Sickles; Museo Civico, Treviso, Italy; (add.info.: Prehistory, Italy, Bronze Age. Sickles. Artwork-location: Treviso, Museo Civico (Art Museum)); © A

Month of June, the harvest, miniature from Ercole I d'Este Brevary
DGA768592 Month of June, the harvest, miniature from Ercole I d'Este Brevary, lat manuscript CCCCXXIV, folio 3, verse, parchment, 1502-1506, Italy, 16th century; Biblioteca Estense Universitaria

5 dinara banknote, 1968, obverse, woman with sickle, Yugoslavia, 20th century
DGA2585206 5 dinara banknote, 1968, obverse, woman with sickle, Yugoslavia, 20th century; (add.info.: 5 dinara banknote, 1968, obverse, woman with sickle. Yugoslavia, 20th century.); © A

Bronze age tools
DGA520262 Bronze age tools; Museo Civico, Treviso, Italy; (add.info.: Prehistory, Italy, Bronze Age. Tools)

Relief depicting a farmer reaping a field
DGA578495 Relief depicting a farmer reaping a field; (add.info.: Belgium, Luxembourg, Arlon, Musee Luxembourgeois (Archaeological Museum), Gallo-Roman art Artwork-location: Arlon

Plate depicting months, June, earthenware
DGA929638 Plate depicting months, June, earthenware, Nove di Bassano manufacture, Veneto region, Italy, 20th century. by Italian School, (20th century); Private Collection; © A

Summer, 1890 (oil on canvas)
XOS9034389 Summer, 1890 (oil on canvas) by Kalckreuth, Leopold Karl Walter von (1855-1928); 356 x 294 cm; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany; (add.info.: Painting by Karl Walter Leopold von Kalckreuth)

1000 dinara banknote, Issued in 1931 and overprinted in 1941
DGA2586374 1000 dinara banknote, Issued in 1931 and overprinted in 1941, Reverse, Woman with sickle and ear and woman with sword and shield, Yugoslavia occupied by Italy

Egypt, Cairo, Ancient Memphis, Saqqara, relief of farmers at work
DGA507465 Egypt, Cairo, Ancient Memphis, Saqqara, relief of farmers at work; (add.info.: Egypt - Cairo - Ancient Memphis (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1979). Saqqara. Necropolis

June: Man cutting hay, miniature from Martyrology by Adone, Latin manuscript, 12th Century
DGA501495 June: Man cutting hay, miniature from Martyrology by Adone, Latin manuscript, 12th Century.; (add.info.: June: Man cutting hay, miniature from Martyrology by Adone, Latin manuscript)

Farmers at work and cherry harvest
DGA756335 Farmers at work and cherry harvest, detail from Sign of Gemini, Month of May, by Francesco del Cossa (circa 1435-1477), fresco, east wall, Hall of Months

Sickle and double bladed razor
DGA916058 Sickle and double bladed razor, from Sant'Agata Bolognese, Emilia Romagna, Italy, Bronze Age; Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy; (add.info.: Bologna)

Male figure holding sickle, relief from Roman theatre of Santa Maria Capua Vetere
DGA917064 Male figure holding sickle, relief from Roman theatre of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Campania, Italy, Roman civilisation, 1st-2nd century; Anfiteatro campano, Santa Maria Capua Vetere

Miniature from a manuscript in latin of the civil rights 14th century (miniature)
DGA514718 Miniature from a manuscript in latin of the civil rights 14th century (miniature); Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid

The Horseman of Apocalypse, by Ulpian Checa Sanz (1860-1916)
DGA5567744 The Horseman of Apocalypse, by Ulpian Checa Sanz (1860-1916) by Checa y Sanz, Ulpiano (1860-1916); Private Collection; Photo © NPL - DeA Picture Library

Harvest scene, relief from the vestibule of the tomb of Petosiris
DGA923312 Harvest scene, relief from the vestibule of the tomb of Petosiris, necropolis of Khmun (or Hermopolis), Tuna el-Gebel, Egypt, Egyptian civilization, Ptolemaic Kingdom

The Veteran in a New Field by Homer
The Veteran in a New Field 1865 Winslow Homer (1836-1910 American) Oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Farmers harvest wheat with a sickle

The Flight into Egypt; Book of Hours, about 1420. Creator: Spitz Master
The Flight into Egypt; Book of Hours, about 1420. Additional Info:In the Hours of the Virgin in this book of hours, the Vespers service opens with a miniature of the Flight into Egypt

Summer. From the original by G.G. Fish. 1863. Creator: John P. Soule
Summer. From the original by G.G. Fish. 1863

July Calendar Page; Reaping; Leo; Book of Hours, early 16th century. Creator: Unknown
July Calendar Page; Reaping; Leo; Book of Hours, early 16th century

MUSSOLINI / HARVESTING 33
BENITO MUSSOLINI Italian dictator sets an example by helping out with the harvest Date: 1933

Miniature by Giovannino de Grassi from the Theatrum sanitatis
DGA513043 Miniature by Giovannino de Grassi from the Theatrum sanitatis, manuscript, Italy 14th Century

The Harvester, from the series Les Brettoneries, 1889 (zincograph with hand-colouring)
IMA207248 The Harvester, from the series Les Brettoneries, 1889 (zincograph with hand-colouring) by Bernard, Emile (1868-1941); 23.8x29.8 cm; Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

"A Love", illustration to The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
BL4171 "A Love", illustration to The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Bull, Rene (1872-1942); British Library, London, UK; (add.info.: by Rene Bull); From the British Library archive

Harl 4431 f. 98v Andromeda rescued from the monster by Perseus riding Pegasus
BL68714 Harl 4431 f

Add 42130 f.172v Peasants harvesting
BL68896 Add 42130 f.172v Peasants harvesting, begun prior to 1340 for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, c.1320-40 (vellum) by English School, (14th century); British Library, London

Roy 2 B VII f.78 Reaping corn harvest in August
BL52779 Roy 2 B VII f.78 Reaping corn harvest in August, from the Queen Mary Psalter, c.1310-20 (vellum) by English School, (14th century); British Library, London, UK; (add.info.: By English School)

Swedish colonists farming along the Delaware River in New Sweden 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

The Hours of Hennessy (Hours of Notre-Dame). Labors of the Months: August, c1530. Found in the Collection of the Bibliotheque royale de Belgique

Relief Of Couple, Girl Holding Sickle
(Original Caption) Copenhagen, Denmark: Thorwaldsen's Museum

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Symbol of Revolution: The Sickle's Enduring Legacy" In the realm of communist propaganda, a powerful image emerged in 1967 with Viktor Ivanov's iconic poster. Depicting a sickle intertwined with the words "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever. ", it encapsulated the fervent devotion to the Soviet leader and his ideals. This emblematic tool became synonymous with the Communist Party and its pursuit of equality. Across continents, another symbol arose in Southeast Asia as Ho Chi Minh's bust stood proudly alongside the Vietnamese socialist flag. The sickle represented collective strength and unity as Vietnam fought for independence from colonial powers. It embodied their determination to build a society rooted in socialist principles. Yet, this humble agricultural implement holds historical significance beyond political movements. In Aleksandr Gerasimov's portrayal of Lenin from 1930-1939, he is depicted holding a sickle—a reminder that even great leaders are connected to their people through labor and agriculture. The it also finds its place in ancient traditions like those of the Druids who carried mistletoe while performing sacred rituals. Feudal lords would instruct peasant workers using this versatile tool during times when manual labor was essential for survival. Pauline Baynes' artwork titled "The Farming Year" beautifully captures scenes where farmers wielded their trusty sickles amidst bountiful harvests or tending to fertile fields—reminding us of our deep connection to nature's cycles. Beyond Europe’s shores, Japanese warriors showcased their skillful techniques at London’s Aeolian Hall wielding not only traditional weapons but also unconventional ones like saucepan lids attached to chains alongside deadly sickles. These displays highlighted Japan’s rich martial arts heritage while showcasing unique implements like Nabebuta (a pot lid), Kusarigama (chain-sickle), and Naginata (halberd).