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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

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

1796

Lever escapement watch by John Grant

1795

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

circa 1795

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1795

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

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

1795

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

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

30-200

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Copy of an Egyptian bas-relief, Europe, 1801-1930

1801-1930

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

20-500

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Marquois universal parallel scale, 1796 or 1797

1796-1797

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350