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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Tumbler, horn, with silver strip around rim, 1742

1742

Doorcase 56 Lincoln’s Inn Fields

circa 1750

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

circa 1711

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720

Majolica pharmacy jar

1730-1750

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compass plane

1717

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

1717-1725

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

1725

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Orrery by Thomas Wright

1735-1745

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

1725

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

1725

Storage jar

1714

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Demainbray's compound microscope

1745

Watch movement with mock pendulum

1725

Georgian Cupboard

1725-1750

Gold repeating watch by William Webster

circa 1715

Barber's shaving bowl

1730-1740

Clay tobacco pipe

1710-1750

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

Votive plaque

1738

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

1880-120

Posset pot

1720-1740

Statue of goddess Vishnu

1800- 500 BCE

Earthenware posset pot

1725-1750

Clay tobacco pipe

1720-1750

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Lancet case

1718

Steel tobacco box-cum-snuff rasp (?) or snuff rasp

1744

Sterlng silver gilt bleeding bowl

1746

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Palfijin obstetrical forceps, Europe, 1720-1730

1720-1730

5 lancets

1744

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Pap boat

1746

Scissors, steel, decorated

1737

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

1990-95

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

1300-1700; 1801-1900