Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

'Spinal Babies' poem, England, 1950-1970

1950-1970

Ivory pestle

Apothecary's balance with steel beam and mother-of-pearl pans

1831-1870

6 weights each a solid rectangle of brass

1801-1900

Turned wooden post supporting an apothecary's balance

1850-1900

Spectacle cases

1890-1930

Folding spectacles with cord

1801-1900

Hand folding spectacles

1830-1910

Spectacle, case, chatelaine type

1840-1915

Tuck in

1851-1900

Chatelaine, pull off

1801-1900

Set of four plated metal urethral sounds in leatherette case

1860-1920

Monotype 0.4-Inch Stamping Machine

1930

Amuletic bundle composed of three bamboo canes

1880-1920

Ready reckoner (currency)

1972-1976

Pair of Trieder 'Porro' type prismatic opera glass binoculars (3 power & 12mm objective lenses)

1902-1924

Amuletic case

1880-1916

Grass basketry penis sheath covered with brown and white reeds

1890-1925

Medicine man's rattle

1890-1925

Amuletic belt made of snake vertebrae

1880-1915

Leather band with red cord hangings and coloured wool tassels

1880-1920

Mat of reeds framed with glass copper and brass beads

1880-1900

Amber and copper bead necklace with pendant suspended

1880-1915

Iron pick

1880-1925

Eleven snakeskin amulet cases stitched to fibre cord necklace decorated with red cord beads

1880-1910

Knotted cord bag with very loose mesh suggesting that it was used to carry a large vessel

1880-1920

Cowrie shell necklace with fine beadwork bag suspended

1880-1910

Medicine bundle or amuletic bag

1880-1920

Carved wooden snuff box

1880-1920

Bark cloth roll containing several dried leaves of tobacco

1871-1910

Bark cloth roll containing two dried leaves of tobacco

1871-1910

Amuletic horn bound with fibre and ornamented with cowrie shells

1890-1930

Amulet worn by a derstee of the small pox spirit

Comb, cane needles set into wooden yoke

1831-1925

Bone blade lashed to carved wooden handle

Amuletic necklace consisting of two small glass bottles

1880-1910

Twisted cord necklace strung with 5 amulets

1880-1910

Pipe case attached by brown cord via oval ojime to tonkotsu

1850-1910

Netsuke in form of male wrestler

1701-1900

Convex plaque carved with Indian deity

1700-1920

Sagemono with three departments

1880-1915

Tobacco pipe with case linked to tonkotsu via ojime

1880-1915

Tobacco pipe with case linked to tonkotsu via ojime

1880-1915

Tonkotsu with lid linked to netsuke via ojime

1880-1929

Cable specimen from the 1865 transatlantic cable

1865

Three cable specimens, 1800-1949

1800-1949

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s