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

1705-1737

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Gold and enamel half-quarter repeater watch by Brockbanks

1812

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

2050-1750 BCE

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

1814

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

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

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

2000-1001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1580-1588; 1930

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

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

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

20-500

Musical cryptographic device

1812

Binks' burettes and a Wollaston slide rule

1814

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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

3500-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

The Costume of Yorkshire

1814

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Portrait engraving of William Nicholson, 1812

1812

Silver medal

1814