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Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Napier's Bones

1690

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Belt made of spiked metal, Europe, 1501-1700

1501-1700

Boot for torture purposes, probably English, 1501-1600

1501-1700

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

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

1701-1750

Tin glazed earthenware albarello

1601-1630

Earthenware pill tile

1671-1730

Tin glazed earthenware albarello made for the Franciscans

1601-1750

Albarello pharmacy jar, Spain, 1600-1625

1600-1625

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Watch with faceted oval rock crystal case and protective outer case by John Ramsay

1625

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Compendium by Elias Allen

1630-1653

Pulley from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Clock weight from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Gear wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Escape wheel from long-case clock by Fromanteel

1660-1665

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1636

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Gunter sector signed Elias Allen

1623

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

Spiral slide-rule

1663

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Pair of seventeenth-century dividers

1600-1699

Puritan-style watch by Edward East

1630

Silver 'Puritan' watch by Edward East

1640

Silver watch by James Vautrollier

1630

Watch in a rock crystal case by David Ramsay

1630

Silver form watch, in the shape of a cockle shell by Richard Masterson, c.1630

1630

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650