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

1796

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Stipple-engraved portrait of Margaret Bryan and two children

1797

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

1797

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

1705-1737

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Clock-watch by Daniel De St Leu

1797

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Token for Sail Canvas Manufactory, Plymouth

1796

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Bronze medal commemorating Pope Pius VI

1796

A Canal Meeting

1797

The Fashionable Mamma or The Convenience of Modern Dress

1796

Portrait. David Macbride. Engraving 1797

1797

Erasmus Darwin

1797

Octagonal silver membership medal

1796

Silver medal to commemorate an uprising in Italy

1797

Bronze token or coin

1796

Circular silver medal

1797

Paris Pharmaceutical Society Membership Medal, about 1830

circa 1830

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal commemorating Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

1797

Middlesex token, 1796.

1796

Badminton token

1796

King Bladud, Bath Token

1796

King Bladud, Bath Token

1796

Plymouth halfpenny token

1796

Dundee halfpenny token

1796

Dundee farthing token

1797

Montrose halfpenny token, 1796.

1796

Dundee halfpenny token

1797

Dundee halfpenny

1797

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)