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Mummified infant, no provenance, Egyptian, 2000-101BCE (see note).

Mummified infant, Egypt, 2000-101 BCE

2000-101 BCE

Copy of Lavoisier's calorimeter of 1780. The original was exhibited in the loan collection of scientific apparatus, 1876. Model made by the South Kensington Museum workshops, 1877.

Replica of Lavoisier's Calorimeter

circa 1780 (original); 1876 (replica)

Contemporary dockyard structural model, scale 1:60 (unrigged), of the lower part (keel to just above waterline) of the hull, of a 1st-Rate 100-guns, of George I reign, by Woolwich Dockyard, Woolwich, London, England, 1714-1727, and restored by Frederick Charles Ihlee, Paston Hall, near Perborough, England, 1933-1938

Structural model of the lower part of the hull of First Rate warship of George I reign

1714-1727; 1933-1938

model, scale 1:10, European Communication Satellite, serial number 0066.

Model, scale 1:10, European Communication Satellite

1970-80

model, scale 1:20, Europa satellite, serial number 0085.

Model, scale 1:20, Europa satellite

1970-80

Copy of a pair of large Magdeburg hemispheres used by Otto von Guericke. The originals were exhibited in the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus of 1876

Copies of large Magdeburg hemispheres

1660 (original); 1876 (copy)

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

3000-1900 BCE

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife

4000-1000 BCE

Handbill (double-sided). London Midland & Scottish Railway. Cook's Cheap Tickets to Gargrave, Bell Busk, Giggleswick, Clapham, Bentham, Ingleton, Settle, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Ribblehead and Dent from Leeds, Bradford, Shipley, etc, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 3 May-28 October 1933. Published April 1933. Printed by Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby and London. Slight damage and marking at top.

Cook''s cheap tickets to ...

1933-04

Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole, 3500-2001BC

Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole

3500-2001 BCE

Coin. Gold, of Britain. Obv. (concave), a horse galloping, palm branch and pellet above, inscribed CVNO. (Cunobelinus, king of the Trinobantes); rev., (convex), an ear of bearded wheat, CAMV. (Camulodunum, or Colchester). Struck about A.D. 30 (?). Diam. 5/8 in. 4.1 grams. 71. 7s. V&A no. 6712-1857.

Ancient British Gold Coin of Cunobelinus

30 CE

Glass bottle with cork stopper, contains bone and charcoal, reputedlyfound at a lake dwelling near Kilmarnock in Scotland, bottle English, 1878-1940

Glass bottle with cork stopper

5000-1800

Glass bottle, contains carbonised wheat from Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, collected by Mr Wheeler Smith

Glass bottle

5000-1800

Part of skull showing depressed fracture, prehistoric cemetery, Gebel Moya. From a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

Skull from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

5000-1 BCE

2 pieces of metatarsal bone, showing extosis, from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya, Sudan

2 pieces of metatarsal bone

5000-1 BCE

Noble expanding lathe mandrel, by the Britannia Co., Colchester, 1887

Noble expanding lathe mandrel

1887-111

Model railway wagon, `O' gauge, LNWR cattle with drover's compartment, No.72324, built by M.C. Hart, c.1960

London & North Western Railway cattle with drover's compartment,

1955-195

Papers including programmes, leaflets and tickets concerning visits to railway works, excursions and other special events, c. 1975-1993. 1 box.

Papers including programmes, leaflets and tickets concerning visits to railway works, excursions etc.

circa 1975-199

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