[Zope] copying image object?

Hi Zopistas, A likely FAQ but it's late, I've been Zoping for 15 hours, ZQR is temporarily unreachable from Canberra, I can't see straight and I'll admit it - I'd like to wake up to the answer ... I simply need to copy an image object (image1) from my globals folder to within an instance of a containerish ZClass. I toyed with manage_addImage() but couldn't find a method to get the raw data out of image1. Cheers, Darran.