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Model of early manual fire engine, ca. 1680.

1680

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

"The description and use of the Sector, Cross-staff and other Instruments", 2nd edition by Edmund Gunter

1636

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Sector by Charles Whitwell

1600-11

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Exchequer standard gallon measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Exchequer standard quart measure of Queen Elizabeth I, 1601

1601

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Pewter teapot, with straight and turned wooden handle, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Glass pestle and mortar, Europe, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

wheel cutting machine

1668-1672 Probable

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Tin glazed earthenware albarello made for the Franciscans

1601-1750

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Tin-glazed earthenware tile

1511-1520

Earthenware tile, used as house number

1511-1530

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Barber's shaving bowl, Netherlands, 1701-1750

1701-1750

Pill tile, England, 1671-1730

1671-1730

Tin glazed earthenware pill tile

1601-1700

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Drug jar for cinchona bark

1701-1730

Pharmacy storage jar depicting St John the Baptist

1501-1600