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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Napier's Bones

1690

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Wandering hour watch by Sinclare, Dublin, c.1690

1690

[Drawings for Lister's 'Conchology']

circa 1690

Roman stone water main

30

Blackened pewter(?) medal by I. Visnara inscribed

1693

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Three Kreutzer coin of Salzburg (Austria)

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five Guinea coin of William and Mary

1691

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

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

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 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 by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain

1693

Bronze medal of the University of Paris

1699

Bronze medal commemorating Marcello Malpigni

1693

Pocket surgical instrument case

1690-1699

Portable sundial and perpetual calendar

1693

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Votive plaque

1698

Two washers

15/7/27

Two washers

15/7/27

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Pottery vase found at Nihawnad, Persia

3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Black haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Black haematite Syrian weight, barrel shaped, from Gaza, Phoenician system

circa 1700-1600 BCE

Black haematite weight, Syrian

circa 1700-1600 BCE