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Collection
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Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Spring detent watch by John Arnold, used by Ruth Bellville and family to distribute GMT c.1834-1940

1794

Lever escapement watch by Josiah Emery

1792

Silver watch with unusual Robin escapement

1792

Marine timekeeper with constant force escapement by Josiah Emery

1792

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Middlesex token

1794

Halfpenny token

1793

Aquatint - sepia toned

1792

Aquatint - sepia toned

1792

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1793

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Engraving, William Herschel's twenty-foot reflecting telescope

1794

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'

1794

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

20-500

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

The Pin and the Needle

1793

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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

3500-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793