Sponge gold from Boulder Proprietary Gold Mine, Western Australia

Small green sponge contained within a container or vinaigrette? of silver? with egg-shaped body decorated with engraved interlace, part of the Ida Pappenheim Collection: possibly German, 19th century

Spherical sponge contained within a squat, circular metal vinaigrette, part of the Ida Pappenheim Collection: German, 19th century

Callyspongia (Cladochalina) plancella (Lamarck, 1814), sponge, dried specimen, probably from Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759, bath sponge, plaque model of the internal structures of a bath sponge, by Les Fils d'Emile Deyrolle, Paris, France

Grantia sp., sponge, plaque Jewell Model of the canal system of a sponge

Isodictya palmata (Ellis & Solander, 1786), Mermaids glove sponge, dried specimen, from the eastern shores of the North Atlantic

Ianthella flabelliformis (Pallas, 1766), sponge, dried specimen, from Australia

Callyspongia variabilis Dendy, sponge, dried specimen, West Indies

Agelas sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815), sponge, dried specimen, from the West Indies

Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759, bath sponge, dried specimen

Small silver and agate vinaigrette, containing a sponge, inside a red leather box, containing letter, James Naysmith, Edinburgh, 1834