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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Gold watch with champlevé enamel dial by Edward East

1650

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Black and white enamel verge watch by Goullons, Paris

1650

Watch with enamel portrait believed to be of Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693)

1650

Watch in a painted enamel case by Paul Roumieu

1650

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver watch with sytlised pomegranate case by Edward East

1650

Pair-cased watch with astronomical indications by Henry Childe

1650

Multiplying spectacles, 1650

1650

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

1990-95

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Coin checking equal-arm balance

1653

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Strigil hanger, bronze, Roman, from Luxor

20-400

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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

3500-1000

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Reading lens in wooden frame and handle

1650

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936