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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

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

1794

Repeating watch with unusual escapement by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1795

Chronometer movement by John Arnold & Son

1795

Eight-day marine chronometer by John Arnold & Son

1795

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

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

circa 1795

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Ticket issued for the Edinburgh-Newcastle Fly to London

1795

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793

Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership

1793

Portrait. David Macbride. Engraving 1797

1797

Erasmus Darwin

1797

Middlesex token

1794

Halfpenny token

1793

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Adler coin of Frederick William of Prussia

1797

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1793

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Engraving, William Herschel's twenty-foot reflecting telescope

1794

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'

1794

Manuscript instructions and receipt for Ramsden solar microscope, 1793

1793

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Lucernal Microscope (c.1795) by W&S JONES 60 HOLBORN LONDON

1795

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

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Engraving. `View of the Telegraph erected on The Admiralty Office'. Published by S.W. Fores

1796

Etching-coloured: `The Dissolution or The Archymist producing an Aetherial Representation'

1796

The Pin and the Needle

1793

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

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

Pocket watch in silver case

hallmarked 1795