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Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

1825

William Hyde Wollaston

1824

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Augustin Jean Fresnel (Physicien)

1824

Frederick W. Trench. A lithographic sketch of the North Bank of the Thames

1825

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

2000 BCE

Captain Franklin RN FRS

1824

Engraving. Plan

1824

Bronze medal commemorating a charitable organisation or society

1825

Lithograph, The Railway at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire

1825

Mr. Peter Nicholson

1825

Portrait, part of the Woodcroft Collection "Gallery of Portraits" etc. Wilson Lowry. Engraving by Linnell

1825

Jacob Perkins Esq

1825

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

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

1972-3

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

2500 BCE

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

2000-1000

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Four lancets

1824

Two lancets

1824

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Obstetrical forceps, Norway, 1801-1900

1872-3

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Straight spectacles

1825

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Uterine probe

1901-950

Turn pin sunglasses

1824