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Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

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

circa 1795

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

A Singular Operation

1795

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

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

1796

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

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

1794

Lancaster canal shipping note

1794-03-03

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s

Spectacles

1795

Ellwood of Whitehaven phosphor

circa 1795

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

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

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

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

1-79 CE; before 1914

gold token redeemable as one halfpenny by John Stride of Emsworth

1795

Gilt bronze trade token of Denton

1795

Silver prize medal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris

1796

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

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

1990-95

Letter from George Washington to his dentist, United States, 1795

1795

Verge watch with inner and outer cases

1776-1839

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Duplex with going barrel

1795

Verge watch

1795

Pocket watch in silver case

hallmarked 1795

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Two washers

15/7/27

Pocket Watch in Silver Case by Ward, 1750-1794

hallmarked 1794

Pocket surgical instrument set

1796

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