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Leighton Buzzard halfpenny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1794

Eui glazed earthenware drug storage jar for mugwor

Medical Ceramic-ware

1751-1800

King Bladud, Bath Token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1794

Small prospect glass (or opera or spyglass), ivory

Optics

1745-1755

Optical cabinet, made by John Cuff. Date about 176

Microscopes

1760

Culpeper microscope in pyramidal case, signed by L

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1771-1800

Zograscope on wooden stand for viewing perpective

Optics

1772-1780
Coin, copper, 40mm diameter. Regal two pence, 1797. 'Cartwheel'. The Royal Mint, 1797, Regal twopenny piece. Obverse Bust of George III etc. Reverse Britannia etc. Notes This was twice the weight of the penny (1977-2381/147), made at Soho Manufactory

Regal two pence coin, 1797.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1797

compound Lucernal microscope, by George Adams, Lon

Microscopes

1790-1795

Middlesex token, Tooke, 1794.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1794

2 silver catheters and grooved probe in fishskin c

Surgery

1750-1800

spectacles, silver frame and arms, double-hinged s

Optics

1775-1800

Boxfoot microscope with oval stage, by J. R. Oppel

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1771-1800
Two small Georgian solid silver spoons by Boulton & Fothergill, hallmarked 1773 - the first year of the Birmingham Assay Office which Matthew Boulton helped establish. John Fothergill was Matthew Boulton's initial partner at the Soho manufactory.

Two silver spoons from the first year of the Birmingham Assay Office

Temporary Exhibitions

1773

Gregorian reflecting telescope

Astronomy

1740-1780

Automation mechanism, for ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Orrery, showing four planets out to the Earth

Astronomy

1776-1785

Leeds halfpenny token

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1793

Flax Spinning Wheel

Textile Industry

1745-1755

Ethereal Match or Philosophic Taper, c.1790, sold

Firemaking

1790

Bath tradesman's ticket, halfpenny for the Botanic Gardens, 1794.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1794

Tin-glazed earthenware drug jar, used for smallage

Medical Ceramic-ware

1751-1800

Large tin-glazed earthenware drug jar, used for th

Medical Ceramic-ware

1751-1770

Microscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

1775-1785

Trade card for James Ayscough, optician, London, England, 1749-1750

.Unattributed

1749-1750

The Patent Gymnasticon

J Walker

1798

Aerostat le Marseillois

Art

1784

Original drawing for the engraving by S.C. Miger o

Art

1783

Mrs. Sage. The first British Fair aerial traveller

Art

1785

Print, coloured. Machine aerostatique de Montgolfi

Art

1784

Engraving : La Melancholie, by H Simon Thomassin a

Art

1780

Print, ascent of a Montgolfier balloon

Art

1783

Print, plain. Dover Castle with the setting off of

Art

1785

Engraving, entitled "The body of a Young Man Taken

Art

1787

Gentleman in his study, with scientific instruments

.Unattributed

1745-1755

M Charles aux Thuilleries

Art

1783

Print: Balloon of Charles and Robert in the Prairi

Art

1783-1790

print. engraving. The Universal Vicissitude of Se

Art

1750-1760

John Harrison

Art

1768

Mezzotint. Portrait of James Hutton (1715-1795)

Richard Cosway

1786

Illustrated directions for using the Nairne Achromatic Prospective-Glass

.Unattributed

1772-1796

Portrait of unknown medical gentleman (previously Dr William Hunter)

.Unattributed

about 1770

HMS Royal Oak

Joseph Marshall

1774

Trade card: Benjamin Cole, Royal Exchange and Ball

Art

1744-1748

Ascension du ballon des freres Montgolfier a Paris 1783

.Unattributed

1783

Urania Coeli

Josiah Boydell

1781

Oil painting portrait of George Graham, 1740-1749

Thomas Hudson

1740-1749
1781-1826, physician; inventor of the monaural stethoscope, French

Laennec, René Théophile Hyacinthe

1781 - 1826

Compound microscope signed J. D. V. Fokkenberg Fec

Microscopes

1777

Birmingham halfpenny token for Bisset's museum and fancy picture factory

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1788-1800