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Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

Telescope by Christopher Cock

1673

Portrait of Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 1811)

1770-1800

Portrait of Francois Justin Vulliamy (1712 – 1797)

1760-1790

Portrait of Thomas Mudge (c.1715 – 1794) after Nathaniel Dance

1770-1775

Square brown shellac Union Case showing biblical scene

1850-1859

Album containing pasted in carte size prints

1855-1865

Refracting terrestrial telescope

1700-1705

Refracting terrestrial telescope by Mann & Ayscough

1740-1750

Lacquered spyglass telescope.

1850-1924

Leather and boxwood spyglass telescope.

1680-1750

square panel of gold leaf

Silhouette of woman

circa 1810

Javanese shadow puppet

1900-1950

Gold leaf electroscope made by John Newman

1828-1857

Telescope, 4-draw, ivory caps

1680-1700

Culpeper microscope, 1730-1740

1730-1740

Kraunchamukha yantra with gold leaf (curlew)

2017

Domestic lock stitch sewing machine, treadle powered with table, drawers and wooden lid; a copy of the Singer 'New Family' style, 1900-1910

Domestic lock stitch sewing machine

1900-1910

Vibrating shuttle lockstitch Frister and Rossmann Sewing Machine with treadle, c. 1932, complete with accessories of hemmer, tucker and ruffler, etc., in a painted tin box.

Vibrating shuttle lockstitch Frister and Rossmann Sewing Machine with treadle

1932

Lock stitch sewing machine by Biesolt and Locke, Meissen, c. 1910, with base, lid and accessories.

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Gold leaf electroscope made by J. Newman, 122 Regent Street, London

Gold leaf electroscope made by J. Newman

1828-1857

Book of gold leaf

Book of gold leaf

before 1889

Book of Gold Leaf, North Eastern Railway, small booklet containing sheets of gold leaf, stamped "Warranted English Gold Leaf". Dimensions: 3 3/4"x3 1/2"

Book of gold leaf, North Eastern Railway

Royal Photographic Society Bronze Commemorative Medal in presentation case. Awarded 1900 for Panoram Kodak camera. Bust of Prince Albert in releif on obverse; Apollo in two-horse charioot riding through clouds on reverse. In presentation case, red leather with gold decoration and inscription 'ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY', lined with black velvet and white silk, stamped with maker in gold.

Royal Photographic Society Bronze Commemorative Medal in presentation case

1900

Giant Daguerreotype portrait of a seated man, arm resting on a pile of books, taken by an unknown photographer about 1850. In large gilt frame, 2'5" x 2'1".

Daguerreotype of a Seated Man

circa 1850

Musical clock album 45 x 23cm approx. Front has 3 apertures - one for cabinet and two for carte de visite photographs. Embossed with a leaf and berry design. Gold leaf pattern round the edges. 11 pages cut for cabinet photographs and two for carte de visites. Pages printed in colour with the life story of Queen Victoria. Extension at top of the back cover carries clock and musical box. Extension outlined with shell pattern in gold leaf. Empty - album does not contain any photographs.

Photograph album with built in clock and musical box

Cachet filling machine, used to fill rice paper cachets with medication, including tamper, mould, wooden accessories, metal rinks, silk sieve, gold leaf sheets and rice paper cachet, 1850-1900

Cachet filling machine

1850-1900

Folding circumcision knife with gold leaf decorated handle, Middle Eastern, 1701-1899

Folding circumcision knife with gold leaf decorated handle

1701-1899

Gold leaf which has been overheated

Two specimens of Gold leaf which has been overheated

before 1889

Five early Thaumotropes, in original box. With two display devices, probably built by Science Museum workshops.

Thaumotrope

circa 1824

Photograph album 21 x 26cm with black leather back. Front forms a frame of black lacquered wood round an albumen print of an angel flying with a child in her arms. Gold leaf around the inside of frame with brass clasp. Contains leaves for carte de visite with only the front page for cabinet photographs. Old catalogue states that the picture come from an engraving by W. von Kaulbach.

Funereal photograph album

Photograph album 23 x 15cm for 100 carte de visite photographs. Both front and back covered with mother of pearl. Rectangular and diamond pattern outlined front and back with darker shell (probably abalone shell). Two metal clasp, one is broken. With brown leather spine with gold leaf pattern. Gold leaf design around carte frames.

photograph album for carte de visite pictures

Tinted Cartes-de-Visites of Royal Family in a leather acordion-style case and box, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 1860s. Part of Rickett's collection. Photographs of 'The Queen HRH The Prince Consort', 'The Queen HRH Princess Beatrice', 'The Queen', 'HRH The Prince Consort', 'HRH The Princess Fredercik William of Prussia', 'HRH The Prince of Wales HRH Princess Alice', 'HRH The Prince of Wales', 'HRH Prince Alfred', 'HRH Princess Helena HRH Princess Louisa', 'HRH Princess Helena', 'HRH Princess Louisa', 'HRH Prince Arthur HRH Leopold', 'HRH Prince Arthur', HRH Princess Beatrice'.

Tinted Cartes-de-Visites of Royal Family in Leather Case

1860-1869