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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Telescope by John Yarwell.

1685-1695

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by John Marshall

1685-1695

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Verge escapement watch movement by Ahasuerus Fromanteel

1685

Brass lantern clock by Edward Webb

1688

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

Votive plaque

1690

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

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

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Bronze medal by Ferdinand St. Urbain commemorating Marcello Malpighi

1693

Grano bronze coin

1693

Silver medal to commemorate architectural embellishments in Leyden J. Smultzing

1693

Bronze medal to commemorate the convalescence of King Louis XIV

1686

Circumferentor, Italian, 1686

1686

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of William and Mary

1691

Five Guinea coin of James II

1687

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Incomplete aerial telescope, 1686-1691

1686-1691

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Bronze medal by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Tin glazed earthenware albarello bearing a monasti

1701-800

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931