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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

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

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

1697

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Table clock with pull quarter repeat by Thomas Tompion

1695-1700

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2000 BCE

Medal, silver, commemorating the restoration of the Athenium of Letters at Lyons

1700

Token of a small group of Dutch apothecaries

1700

White medal

1694

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Bronze medal of the University of Paris

1699

Equinoctial sun dial, c. 1694.

1694

Tinder box with flint lock mechanism

circa 1700

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

1701

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Arithmetical instrument known as a Rotula

1699

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

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

circa 1700

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Engraving "Der Serffensieder" (soapboiler)

1698

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Trade card: John Yarwell

1694

Trade card: Thomas Tuttell

1698

Trade card: Thomas Tuttell

1698

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Trade card: John Yarwell

1694

Trade card: J. Harris

1702

Pocket surgical instrument set in leather wallet

1701-1500

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE