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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Half-penny coin

1806

Half-penny coin

1806

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Bronze medal commemorating the new workhouse at Genoa

1806

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Circular, bronze medal

1806

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Sterling silver pap boat

1806

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

door knocker from the Great Hall of Lewis's Department Store

1870-1800

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

Daisy

1864-04

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

Forty Francs coin of Napoleon I (France)

1806

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1806

Two Scudos coin of Carlos IV (Spain)

1806

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s