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Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, brass, laurel wreath with crown and SE&CR over, 1901-23. Dimensions: 1" dia.

Brass button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1901-23

Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, brass. Laurel wreath with crown surmounted by SE&CR, back marked 'Superb Quality'. Dimensions: 17mm dia.

Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1901-23

Model of English Electric "Canberra" Jet bomber, scale 1:24.

The English Electric Canberra jet bomber, 1950.

1950-59

philospher, Spanish

Averroes

1126 - 1198

1265-1321, poet, Italian

Alighieri, Dante

1265 - 1321

c. 1275- c. 1327, anatomist, Italian

Mondino dei Luzzi

1275 - 1327

1100-1134, conjoined twin of Elisa Chulkhurst (Biddenden Maid), English

Chulkhurst, Mary

1100 - 1134

1100-1134, conjoined twin of Mary Chulkhurst (Biddenden Maid), English

Chulkhurst, Elisa

1100 - 1134

1254-1324, merchant; traveller, Italian

Polo, Marco

1254 - 1324

1253-1303, saint; lawyer; ecclesiastical judge, French

Saint Yves

1253 - 1303

1214?-1294, philosopher; Franciscan friar, English

Bacon, Roger

1214 - 1294

1118-1170, saint; martyr; archbishop, English

Becket, Thomas

1118 - 1170

1136-1206, active from 1181, engineer; inventor; author, Mesopotamian; Iraqi

al-Jazari, Ismail ibn al-Razzaz

1136 - 1206

1157-1159, monarch, king of England, reigned 1189-1199

Richard I

1157 - 1199

c. 1235-c. 1315,

Lull, Ramon

1235 - 1315

1225-1274, philosopher; theologian, Italian

Aquinas, Thomas

1225 - 1274

1155-1189, monk; warrior, Japanese

Benkai, Musashibo

1155 - 1189

1170-1221, priest, founder of the Dominicans, Spanish

Saint Dominic

1170 - 1221

c 1295-1327, Christian saint; martyr; pilgrim, French

Saint Roch

1295 - 1327

c. 1300-1368, surgeon, French

Guy de Chauliac

1300 - 1368

1181/2-1226, monk; friar, Italian

Saint Francis of Assisi

1181 - 1226

1188-1978, hospital; Belgium, Belgian

Hospital of St. John (Bruges)

1188 - 1978

c. 1195-1231, Christian saint; preacher; Augustinian monk; Franciscan monk, active Italy; Portuguese

Saint Anthony of Padua

1195 - 1231

1167-1216, reign 1199-1216, King of England, English

John I, King of England

1167 - 1916

1866-1883, railway company, United Kingdom

Llynvi & Ogmore Railway

628 - 1883

1222-current (2009), university, Padua, Italy

University of Padua

1222

1119-current (2009), Christian organisation; charity, active worldwide

Knights Templar

1119

1280-current, coin manufacturer; official mint of Germany

German Mint

1280

1222-active (2009), university; medical school, Padua, Italy

New Polyclinic of Learning (Italy: Padua)

1222

A photographic print from the Daily Herald Archive folder: Industry » Agriculture » Vegetables - Potatoes.

A photographic print of Vegetables - Potatoes

19\60-11-15

Return of overcharges, The Kington and Eardisley Railway Company, Blank form for return of overcharges.

The Kington and Eardisley Railway Company

187_

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mr & Mrs Phillips lived with their three children (4,3 & 1 1/2 years) in a council owned slum house. A few years before Mr Phillips was earning £30.40 as a spot welder and they lived in a new council house. Then Mr P began going blind (a danger of his trade) he lost his job, fell into rent arrears was evicted into this sub-standard property-no bath, no hot water, outdoor lavatory. They live on £10.15 per week'. See interview P17 "Happy Christmas"'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Mr & Mrs Phillips…

00/10/1970

This graphite pencil drawing of the Great Nebula in Orion was made by John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) while on a trip to South Africa in 1835. Herschel was able to draw the nebula with the aid of a 20 feet reflector telescope at 'Feldhausen' in the Cape of Good Hope. The drawing is probably one that is referred to in his diary entry for the date, Sunday 4 January 1835.

The Great Nebula in Orion as seen in the 20 feet Reflector at Feldhausen - Cape of Good Hope

Sunday 4 January 1835

Two "Tenby Pilot" double wall switches made of phenol formaldehyde, made in England, 1929-1940

Two double electrical wall switches

1920-1040

Bronze adze blade probably early dynastic, c.3000 B.C.

Bronze adze blad

circa 3000 BCE

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Third Class Picnic Saloon. Exterior and interior views. Revised series. Published November 1904. Published November 1904. (Printed by McCorquodale & Co Limited).

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Third Class Picnic Saloon

1904-11

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Queen Victoria's Saloons. Exterior and interior views. Revised series. Published November 1904. (Printed by McCorquodale & Co Limited).

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Queen Victoria's Saloons

1904-11

[Stationery bills (2) issued to Charles Babbage]/William Creswick, papermaker, John St, Oxford St, 1841 Dec & 1843 Apr. [The bills are for cartridge paper ruled to order]

Stationery bills issued to Charles Babbage

1841-43

Examples of Egyptian, and Roman-Egyptian, eye-beads, and a fragment of a Nubian eye-bead.

Eye-beads, c 1300 BC.

circa 1300 BCE

Coloured original drawing of an Egyptian mural painting on the wall of the"Tomb of Two Sculptors" at Thebes, 18th dynasty, c.BC1350, showing jewellers weighing gold ingots and working. Size 16"x14" overall

Coloured original drawing of an Egyptian mural painting

1350 BCE

Marble copy of a Greek(?) statue of Homer, original possibly 4th to 2nd century BC, copy possibly 1800-1920

Homer

1800-1920; 400-200 BCE

Rail profile set, cased, for flat-bottomed rail, by Glass Developments Ltd, London c.1955.

Rail profile set

1950-1060

Standard printing press converted to an occupational therapy device, hand operated by pulling a handle to strengthen limbs weakened through accident or illness, can be rigged to exercise any part of the body, assembled by hospital workshops, type and additional composing equipment included, 1930-70.

Standard printing press converted to an occupational therapy device

1930-70

Plaster copy of female bust, original probably Roman, 100BC-200AD, replica made 1901-1940

Plaster copy of female bust

100 BCE-200 CE; 1901-1940

Hammer head, bronze, with restored wooden handle, Graeco-Roman, 500BC-500AD

Hammer head

1851-1930; 500 BCE-500 CE

Two flint drill Heads and Sandstone Block used for testing similar drills, found on the site of the Temple of Zoser Saqqara, c.3000 BCE

Sandstone blockhead

3000 BCE

Bow drill with bronze drill, date about 1370 BC, found at Tel El Amarna, Upper Egypt, in winter season of 1921-22.

Bow Drill with Bronze Bit

circa 1370 BCE

Goods guard journal, Rhymney Railway; Aberdare Branch, Listing stations between Aberdare and Cardiff Docks, Actual and published times of arrival and departure, Waggons, Owners , First Trip, Second trip, Remarks, Instruction to fully report cause of delay.

Rhymney Railway; Aberdare Branch

187_

Iron age axehead, bronze Eastern Europe, Bronze Age.

Iron age axehead

3300-1200 BCE

Ingot of gold and four specimens of silver, from Tel el Amarna. XVIII Dynasty

Ingot of gold and four specimens of silver, from Tel El-Amarna. XVIII Dynasty

1567-1306 BCE

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