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Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Souscription watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1801

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Tin glazed earthenware drug jar

1751-1800

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection for Alicante

1800-1818

Sycamore (wood) case with lid, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

1800-1818

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Compound microscope

1700

Achromatic doublet lens with a focal length of 52 inches

1780

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Table clock by Johnson

1775-1785

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance

1770-1775

Skeletonised watch movement by Peter Amyot

1750-1775

Keys to the Clockmakers Company chest

1766

Watch incorporated into a ring

1785-1795

Orrery clock with a glass celestial globe

1795-1805

Quarter-repeating automaton watch

1800-1830

Albarello drug jar used for cinchona bark

1731-1770

Posset pot with Chinese decoration

1701-1750

Amulet or cimaruta in the form of a rue branch

1701-1830

Silver amulet in the form of a crescent moon

1701-1830

Amulet against the evil eye in the form of a fish

1801-1830

Ivory model of skull and cross bones

1701-1800

Dispensing pot for powdered quinine

1801-1830

Dental key

1725-1780

Albarello, polychrome maiolica

1700-1780

Storage jar

1714

Albarello, blue tin-glazed earthenware

1701-1800

Pewter pap boat

1701-1800

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Barber's shaving bowl

1701-1800

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Tobacco jar in the shape of a skull

1701-1800

Enema syringe

1701-1800

Double-ended apothecary's spoon

1701-1800

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Parrot-beak dental forceps

1780-1810

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

1809

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801