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Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

1802

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.

1801

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Silver pill box engraved with a triangular pattern, Birmingham, England, 1801

1801

Painted green glass liquor bottle

1804

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Small squat bronze mortar

1801-1800

Lead (?) medal to commemorate Aloysius Galvani, by

1803

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

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

1972-3

Early Sikes' hydrometer 6 1/2" long

1802

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

Seven-Shilling coin of George III

1804

Half-Guinea coin of George III

1803

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

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

3500-1000

Portrait: engraving

1801

Portrait. Erasmus Darwin. Engraving 1803

1803

Matthew Boulton

1803

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Letterpress broadsheet : Monsieur Garnerin's Wonderful Descent by a Parachute

1802

Engraving, two portrait vignettes

1801

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400