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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Wooden model consisting of water wheel and treadmill in common frame

1753

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Model: submersible brass mesh cage

before 1753

Wilson screw barrel microscope (brass) in fishskin case with accessories

1753

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Microscope (dated 1754)

1754

John Bristow

1754

A Chain Bridge

1753

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

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

1972-3

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

1990-95

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Engraving of Graving dock

1840-160

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

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

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Guinea balance in case

1753-1754

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Silver medal to commemorate the opening of the theatre of the Surgical Society

1753

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Arithmetical medal and numerical pocket piece

1753