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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

1730

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1730; 1967

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

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

1880-120

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

1990-95

Surgical etui, c. 1730

1730

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Set of flat troy penny weights in fitted mahogany case

1737

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Microscope (c.1738)

1738

Microscope (c.1730)

1730

Waywiser, British, 1739

1739

Lead-glazed earthenware albarello

1736

Squat bronze mortar

1730

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

One grano coin

1736

Engraving: Portrait of William Harvey MD (1578-1657)/Houbraken

1739

One carlino

1734

Bronze coin

1734

Copper medal

1732

Bronze medal

1731

Small silver medal with reeded edge

1734

Silver die cast medal

1732-1734

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

1730

Yard measure, engraved: "Navy Office Deptford 1730"

1730

Guinea coin of George II

1736

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Medal commemorating Reneaulme de Lagaranne

1736

Bronze medal to commemorate J.M. Martellini

1734

Copper(?) medal, of the Paris Medical School, comm

1736

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350