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Ampere balance from 0.5 to 25 amperes, box containing sliding weights, counterpoises, reading glass, and other accessory apparatus for use with the balance

Ampere balance from 0.5 to 25 amperes, box contain

Electricity and Magnetism

1888
Ediswan lampholder, with ceramic insulation, 1888

Ediswan lampholder, with ceramic insulation, 1888

Lighting

1888
Bronze medal commemorating the 4th session of the Congress of the Federation of the Archaeological and History Societies of Belgium held at Charleroi, 5th August, Belgium, 1888

Bronze medal commemorating the 4th session of the

Wellcome Medals

1888
Silver medal, Institut Pasteur, showing Louis Pasteur, France, 1888

Silver medal, Institut Pasteur, showing Louis Past

Wellcome Medals

1888
Crystal box containing thirty-three assorted metal components from the three wheeled motor car, by Benz, Paris, France, 1888

Crystal box containing thirty-three assorted metal components from the three wheeled Benz motor car

Road Transport

1888
to be deleted

Sea Urchins

NSMM

1888
Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled 'A Cottage Home, Sussex', the image shows a woman sweeping the steps outside of her cottage, while a young boy in a deerstalker hat watches. This photograph won the bronze medal at the 1888 Oldham Exhibition.

A Cottage Home, Sussex

Photographs

1888
Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled 'Mending nets', the image shows two fishermen mending a fishing net outside of a hut in Rye. This photograph was displayed in the Photographic Societ of India exhiition, 17 January 1888.

Mending nets

Photographs

1888
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image titled "Sea Urchins". Two boys play on a muddy river bank by the remains of a beached paddle steamer. The third boy looks down from his vantage point on the wreck. This photograph was shown in the Oldham Exhibition of 1888.

Sea Urchins

Photographs

1888
Dr Mary Scharlieb's doctorate (MD) hat, 1888, England, by Ede, Son, and Ravencroft

Dr Mary Scharlieb's doctorate (MD) hat, England, 1888

Surgery

1888
to be deleted

Twitch Burning

NSMM

ca. 1888
Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows a sailboat in port (possibly at Lowestoft). This image was displayed at the Photographic Society of India Exhibition of 1888.

In Port

Photographs

1888
Painting, oil on canvas, James Grierson 1827-1887, General Manager of the Great Western Railway from 1863 to 1887, by Sydney Hodges, 1888. Depicts Grierson with long greying hair and extensive side whiskers. He is wearing a dark morning suit with a red tie, and is seated with his legs crossed. His right arm rests on a table next to some books, with his left on papers in his lap. A pair of spectacles hangs from his waistcoat. Unframed.

james grierson

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1888
Notice. Great Eastern Railway. Cheap Excursion from Liverpool Street to Sudbury, Bury St Edmund's, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton-on-Sea, and to Colchester, Harwich, Ipswich, Felixstowe, Woodbridge, Bungay, Beccles, Aldebrugh, Lowestoft, Yarmouth, on 29 March 1888. Red and blue text on white background with decorative border. Printed at the Company's Works, Stratford. Conserved and backed.

Great Eastern Railway cheap excursions

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1888
Instructions booklet, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, "Opening Throughout of the Oxted and Groombridge Line Extending From Hurst Green Junction to Ashurst Junction.', 1888.

Opening Throughout of the Oxted and Groombridge Line Extending From Hurst Green Junction to Ashurst Junction

Documents

1888
Notice. London Brighton & South Coast Railway. £10 Reward. (To anyone giving information which will lwad to the conviction of the offender or offenders who.....at about two o'clock on the afternoon of 12 January 1888 did wilfully and maliciously tamper with the Norwood Spur Juction distant signal by Placing a large stone under the lever, so as to prevent its working, thereby seriously endangering the safety of the traffic). Black text on white background. Printed by Waterlow and Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London. Stuck to board.

Notice. London Brighton & South Coast Railway. £10 Reward. (

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

c.1888
Notice, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, Opening throughout of the Oxted & Groombridge Line - The New & Direct Route to Tunbridge Wells, etc from 1 October 1888 written in red and blue ink.

Opening Throughout of the Oxted & Groombridge Line

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1888
Monthly account of the Carrying Dept, Seacombe, Hoylake & Deeside Railway, with Messrs The Hersey Coal Company with conditions of carriage (in two pieces)

account (monthly)

Documents

1888
Notice, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, "Oxted and Groombridge and Tunbridge Well and Three Bridge Lines with the Opening of Ashurst Junction", Issued by A. Sarle, 1888.

Oxted and Groombridge and Tunbridge Well and Three Bridge Lines with the Opening of Ashurst Junction

Documents

1888
Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway "Working Time Table of Excursion and Special Trains and Other Arrangements" for the 21 to 29 April 1888. Issued at Manchester on 17 April 1888.

Working Time Table of Excursion and Special Trains and Other Arrangements

Documents

1888-04
Notice. London Brighton & South Coast Railway. £25 Reward. (To anyone giving information which will lead to the conviction of the offender or offenders who.....on the evening of 19 December 1888 did wilfully and maliciously place a piece of timber, about 4 feet long by 1 foot thick, known as a stop block, on the Up Line between Ashstead and Epson Town Stations, thereby seriously endangering the safety of the traffic). Black text on white background. Printed by Waterlow and Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London. Stuck to board.

London Brighton & South Coast Railway. £25 Reward

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

c.1888
Painting, oil on canvas, portrait of James Grierson, General Manager, Great Western Railway, 1863-1887, painted by Hubert Herkomer, 1888. Depicts Grierson with long greying hair and extensive side whiskers. He is wearing a dark morning suit, and is seated with his legs crossed. His right arm rests on the chair, with his left on the chair and his lap, holding a pair of spectacles. Signed 'HH 88'. Unframed.

James Grierson

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1888
Circular, Midland & Great Northern Joint Railways Circular No 74, Working of Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Bridge Line, John Noble Midland Railway, Henry Oakley Great northern Railway, December 31 1888. This document adhered to 2003-7723.

Midland & Great Northern Joint Railways Circular No 74

Documents

1888
Pencil drawing by Joseph Wood, 1888. 'London, Chatham and Dover Railway 0-4-4T Locomotive No 102'.

Pencil drawing of 'Chatham and Dover Railway 0-4-4T Locomotive No 102', by Joseph Wood, 1888

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1888
London Brighton & South Coast Railway notice the name of Caterham junction will be altered to Purley on and after 1st October. Issued by A. Sarle, dated 2nd July 1888. Printed by Waterlow and Sons.

London Brighton & South Coast Railway notice the name of Caterham junction will be altered to Purley

Documents

1888
Notice, West London Extension Railway, "Alteration of Signals', 1888.

alteration of signals

Documents

1888
Model ship, Paddle Steamship `Paris', London Brighton & South Coast Railway Newhaven Section, prototype built by Fairfield, 1888, withdrawn 1912, sold to Shipping Federation in 1912, renamed 'Verdun' during WW1 and broken up in 1924.

Model ship, Paddle Steamship `Paris'

Railway Models

1888
Publicity leaflet. LNWR, List of Agricultural Shows, 1888. 4pp (in two halves).96 x 142mm.

Publicity leaflet. LNWR, List of Agricultural Shows, 1888.

Documents

1888