Image
Category
Collection
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Nocturnal, brass gilt

1601-1650

Decorative Glass Vessel, Spanish, 19th century.

1801-1900

Decorative Glass Vessel, Spanish, 19th century.

1801-1900

Column Sundial in Gilt Bronze, 1531-1570

1531-1570

Sundial with compass

1671-1700

Pocket Watch in Guilt Silver Case by Thomas Earnshaw, 1810-1824

hallmarked 1824

Graphometer-clinometer by Phillippe Danfrie

1597-1603

Combined Pocket Watch and Aneroid Barometer, 1895-1905

1895-1905

German Perpetual Calendar in gilt metal

1701-1800

Tablet sun-dial in gilt metal

1597

Large demonstration kaleidoscope on mahogany stand

1840-1860

Pair of spectacles (pince nez?), silver plated brass

circa 1700

hand magnifying glass or quizzing glass

1795-1805

Iron framed spectacles with padded temple pieces, in leather case

1745-1755

Optician's trial set of lenses

spyglass or Galilean telescope

1735-1772

Decorative Glass Vessel, Spanish, 19th century.

1801-1900

Barometer by Daniel Quare

1695-1705

Pocket Aneroid Barometer, 1871-1900

1871-1900

Duplex Pocket Watch in Gilt Silver Case by Vulliamy, 1810-1823

hallmarked 1823

Decorative Glass Vessel, Spanish, early 19th century.

1801-1833

Decorative Glass Vessel, Spanish, 19th century.

1801-1900

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

1830

Column Sundial with Dragon Design, Unsigned, 1601-1700

1601-1700

Bust of Ernest Solvay

1913

terrestrial achromatic refracting telescope

1838-1845

Wooden key sign from a locksmith's shop

Wooden key sign from a locksmith's shop

Sundial and compass, brass gilt, dial plate 10 3/4in. by 8 3/4in. Engraved "Franz Antoni Knitl Linz, fecit". Austrian, late 17th or early 18th century

Sundial and compass

1671-1730

Moulded 'Union' case decorated with angel (1½ x 2-inches); no photograph, by S.Peck & Co.

Moulded 'Union' case decorated with angel (1½ x 2-inches)

Barometer and thermometer by Isaac Robelou, London, England, 1719

Combined barometer and thermometer, by Isaac Robelou, 1719

1719