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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Set of magnetical apparatus in case, by Adams

1790

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Six Bramah lock drilling templates, on pine (wood) board

circa 1795

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

1705-1737

Richard Arkwright

1790

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Toothbrush set

1791-1792

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

Improved Withering Botanic microscope

1790

Silver medal to commemorate N.J.G. Leiden Frost

1793

Circular copper halfpenny token

1795

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Thaler coin of Leopold II (Austria-Hungary)

1790

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Petit-Ecu of Three Livres coin of Louis XVI (France)

1791

Half-Guinea 'Spade' coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1790

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' Guinea coin of George III

1790

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1793

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1791

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1791

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Manuscript instructions and receipt for Ramsden solar microscope, 1793

1793

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

3500-1000

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

Hydrostatical and Chemical Balance (c. 1790)

1790

The Pin and the Needle

1793

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'

1794

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793

Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership

1793

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350