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Gold memento mori finger ring, set with a transparent stone shaped like a coffin which contains the image of a skeleton, band has an enamel inscription

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1728

Bi-convex lens in bluish glass 6 1/4" diam, 1 3/8"

Experimental Chemistry

1760-1780

Veterinary fleam, three blades, silver handle with

Veterinary Medicine

1733

Reproduction of Hauksbee's discharge tube, to show

Electricity and Magnetism

1706

Wax plaque in wooden frame showing front view of n

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Wax plaque in wooden frame, showing female interna

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Wax plaque in glazed wooden frame show male intern

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Octagonal bronze weight, India

Weighing & Measuring

1700-1725

Octagonal bronze weight, India

Weighing & Measuring

1700-1725

Straight, cylindrical urethral sound with flat han

Surgery

1751-188

Powder-Tester (c. 1730), by GLEEVE. Brass barrel m

Experimental Chemistry

1730

Ivory Hydrometer (c. 1700-30), in lignum vitae cas

Experimental Chemistry

1700-1730

Mahogany clay tobacco pipe case with hinged lid fo

Smoking

1745-1747

Carapace of turtle, in 2 sections in display box,

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-930

Compound monocular microscope with ivory and leath

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1731-1770

Folding coin scale

Weighing & Measuring

1774

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Clarke's export hydrometer made by James Clarke, n

Experimental Chemistry

1770

Culpeper microscope, with tooled red leather on bo

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1731-1770

Microscope (dated 1754), signed F. WATKINS LONDON.

Microscopes

1754

Large size pyramidal case with trade card for Thom

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1731-1770

Microscope (c.1730), by EDMUND CULPEPER. Tripod le

Microscopes

1730

Microscope (c.1738), by THOMAS WRIGHT, improvement

Microscopes

1738

Loeser's Metallic thermometer by J. G. Zimmer, 1746-47

Heat

1746-1747

Yard measure, engraved: "Navy Office Deptford 1730"

Weighing & Measuring

1730

Ebony violin fingerboard, one of eight, shape and sized solid fabrications, by James Watt, Glasgow, Scotland, 1758-1769. These fabrications are cut with slots across their length, and as such some of them fit inside 1924-792/1405/1. The slots appear to have been cut with the use of the three small circular saw blades 1924-792/551 (see note). The fabrications were constructed for violin instrument pupils.

Pair of ebony violin fingerboard shape and sized solid fabrications

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Instrument case for compound microscope

Optics

1750

Universal pocket sundial

Time Measurement

1701-1721

Boxfoot microscope with ball-socketed pillar, sign

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1755

Compass microscope for opaque objects

Microscopes

1740

Snuff box, oval, made of horn, bound in brass with

Smoking

1701-1750

Curved glass tube, 4ft chord

King George III

1750

Brass Syphon tube

King George III

1750

Parallel rule, rectangular brass frame with steel

Mathematics

1731-1770

Boxfoot Cuff microscope by Passemant, Paris, mid 1

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1731-1770

Pocket surgical instrument set in 3-fold leather c

Surgery

1803-876

Set of lithotomy instruments in fishskin case, c.1

Surgery

1771-1780

Haematite weight, Syrian

Weighing & Measuring

1700-1600 BCE

Azimuth variation compass, British, 1722-1747

Surveying

1722-1747

Pocket Watch in Gold Case with Enamel Decoration, 1740-1760

Time Measurement

1740-1760

spyglass (prospect glass) with 1-draw tube, shagre

Optics

1725-1735

Smellie-type obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1740-1760

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