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Large silver travelling or coach watch by William Knottesforde, London, c.1680. Silver case, the back engraved with the conversion of St. Paul, and the edge pierced and engraved in pattern of flowers and foliage. Bell set into the inside back of the case. Silver dial formed of concentric rings. The outer ring is gilt and engraved; then a ring for the days of the month, highlighted with red wax; then a gilt turning ring with steel pointer; then a silver hour circle, with engraved inner border filled in with red wax; then a silver alarm disc with steel pointer for the hour circle. The centre is engraved with a flower wreath and central sunflower. Steel hour hand with long tail. Movement with striking and going trains and verge escapement. Silver count-wheel engraved with sunflower and filled in with red wax. The balance spring is of 1 1/4 turns. Worm-and-wheel regulation with silver dial. Signed ‘William Knottesforde, London’. Clockmakers' Museum No. 589

Large silver coach watch by William Knottesford

1680

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

Working model of Hero's Aeolipile

Plaster Cast of an Early English Sundial, 1920-1935

Plaster Cast Reproduction of Civita Lavinia Hemicycle, 1945-1955

Model of alchemist's alembic

Tin-glazed earthenware albarello

Plaster copy of marble plaque illustrating Aesculapius

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

Copy of a gold urn

Plaster replica of a Greek state of Asklepios

Bell-shaped bronze mortar with 2 square handles

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

Replica of excavated iron age

Ointment pot, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Palette, stone, rectangular, excavated by Garstang at Abydos

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Acheulian flint hand axe, c 10000-5000 BC.

Mummified cat, ancient Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

Instrument sterilizer

Camden cycle, occupational therapy device, Northampton, England 1930-1970

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

Small Stone Age

Small Stone Age

Flint hand tool

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

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

Deer Antler Piercer from Kent, England, Stone Age

Plaster replica of a Greek statue of Asklepios

Model of Mud House

Section through tumour on dinosaur's vertebra

Scottish Bone Comb for Heckling Flax, Neolithic

Plaster copy of sarcophagus cover of the hydrocephalic dwarf Zeher

Copy of a Parturition chair, London, England, 1912

Bronze knife, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

Rigged model of 'Santa Maria'

Watch, verge movement

Douglas DC-3 'Dakota', late 1930s.

Votive tablet showing horse and man

English Electric Lightning, 1949-1960.

Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine

Brass button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Large silver coach watch by William Knottesford

The English Electric Canberra jet bomber, 1950.

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower