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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Gold repeating watch by Benjamin Grey

1730

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

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

2000 BCE

Bronze medal

1731

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Glass Trough (c. 1730) similar to M.6 (1993-1317) but without foot

1730

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Yard measure, engraved: "Navy Office Deptford 1730"

1730

Carpenter's sliding joint-rule by I Trafford

1772

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Peseta coin of Philip V (Spanish South American)

1730

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Gold 18th Century Coin with Crown and Palm Tree Symbols

1730

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Culpeper-Wilson compound microscope

1730

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Three mahogany samples, from spindle moulder machine

1791-3

Winding handle for spindle moulder

1791-3

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936