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Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

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

1705-1737

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

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

Fillet interlocking

1830

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

1880-120

Gibson spoon, English, 1827-1828

1827-1828

Phrenological head of unidentified male

1827

2 lancets

1827

2 lancets

1829

4 lancets

1827

Lancet, steel and tortoiseshell

1829

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Obstetrical forceps, Norway, 1801-1900

1872-3

Two lancets

1830

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

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

Turn pin

1830

Turn pin sunglasses

1830

Medicine spoon

1828

Extending spectacles

1829-1830

Turn pin spectacles

1829

Turn pin spectacles

1827-1829

Extending spectacles

1827-1828

Tinted, extending, double lens

1827-1828

Extending spectacles

1829-1830