The National Trust recently made the details of over 700,000 of the objects in their care available online for the first time.
I quick search for objects around Birmingham reveals 1,350 items, a fair few of them with accompanying pictures.
You can check out the online collection at nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. If anyone spots anything particularly good in there, please let me know.
With thanks to Museum Network Warwickshire for pointing this one out.