Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Silver sundial by Hunfrey Cole

1568-1590

Compendium rule signed Humfrey Cole

1574

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Small bronze bell shaped mortar

1590

Tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Earthenware tile, used as house number

1511-1530

Tin-glazed earthenware tile

1511-1520

Vitruvici de Architectura libri decem

1543

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Avoirdupois weight (standard)

1588

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Altitude quadrant

1552

Horizontal sundial in bronze

1551

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bronze bell shaped mortar with 2 bands of decoration

1592

Earthenware tile used as a house number

1511-1520

Earthenware tile used as house number

1511-1520

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

1520-1530

Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

1588

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Tin-glazed earthenware albarello

1578

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Photograph of an engraving of the astronomer, Tycho Brahe

1596

Portable universal equinoctial sundial, in brass,

1588

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

46 brass plates for book illustrations

1568

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Flint weight, Syrian Khoirine system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Bronze medal to commemorate Federigo II Gonzaga and his wife Isabella of Capua

1519-1530

Albarello used to store smallage seeds, Italy, 1550

1550

Albarello vase

1550

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Forceps, spring-action, steel

1801-190

Tile earthenware

1511-1520