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

3500-1000

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Wafer tongs

1715

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

Brass pill divider

1712

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

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

Statue of goddess Vishnu

1800- 500 BCE

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Lancet case

1718

Silver bleeding bowl

1704

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Plaque showing dental and surgical operations, Europe, 1801-1900

1300-1700; 1801-1900

Repeating Pocket Watch by Daniel Quare, 1705-1715

1705-1715

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Silver touchpiece probably issued by James III, the 'Old Pretender'

1715-1716

Slide-rule, 12-inch, boxwood

1713

Leather case for Slide-rule

1713

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Silver apothecary's balance

1702-1714

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Gold touchpiece

1702-1714

Mathematical and Philosophical Works

1708

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Mezzotint print of oil painting, portrait of Isaac Newton, 1712

1712

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

2000 BCE

Tin medal

1704

Circular bronze medal

1706

Medal, silver, of the merchant grocers and apothecaries of France

1710

Bronze(?) medal, commemorates A. Doute(?), Dean of

1718

Bronze medal commemorating the Royal Academy of Science

1716

Medal, gilt metal

1714

Bronze token for supplier of drugs in Paris(?), ar

1706

Silver medal to commemorate M.L.B. Doye

1716

Reeded silver token advertising merchants

1710

Copper medal

1716