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Watch, verge movement

Watch, verge movement

1700

Model of Douglas D.C,-3 aircraft, scale 1:24.

Douglas DC-3 'Dakota', late 1930s.

1939-45

Model of English Electric "Lightning" aircraft, scale 1:24.

English Electric Lightning, 1949-1960.

1949-60

Verge watch movement

Verge watch movement

1700

Excavated bronze age skull showing 4 healed trephinings, from Jericho, 2200-2000BC

Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine

2200-2000 BCE

Silver trial plate, made at The Royal Mint (Tower of London), 1707

Silver trial plate

1707

Gold trial plate, made at The Royal Mint (Tower of London), 1707

Gold trial plate

1707

Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, brass, laurel wreath with crown and SE&CR over, 1901-23. Dimensions: 1" dia.

Brass button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1901-23

Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, brass. Laurel wreath with crown surmounted by SE&CR, back marked 'Superb Quality'. Dimensions: 17mm dia.

Button, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1901-23

Sundial

1700

Sundial and compass

Sundial and compass

1700

Verge watch movement

Verge watch movement

1700

Watch, verge movement

Watch, verge movement

1710

Watch, verge movement

Watch, verge movement

1705

Verge watch movement

Verge watch movement

1710

Watch, verge movement

Watch, verge movement

1710

Watch

circa 1700

Model of English Electric "Canberra" Jet bomber, scale 1:24.

The English Electric Canberra jet bomber, 1950.

1950-59

A photographic print from the Daily Herald Archive folder: Industry » Agriculture » Vegetables - Potatoes.

A photographic print of Vegetables - Potatoes

19\60-11-15

Return of overcharges, The Kington and Eardisley Railway Company, Blank form for return of overcharges.

The Kington and Eardisley Railway Company

187_

Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mr & Mrs Phillips lived with their three children (4,3 & 1 1/2 years) in a council owned slum house. A few years before Mr Phillips was earning £30.40 as a spot welder and they lived in a new council house. Then Mr P began going blind (a danger of his trade) he lost his job, fell into rent arrears was evicted into this sub-standard property-no bath, no hot water, outdoor lavatory. They live on £10.15 per week'. See interview P17 "Happy Christmas"'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

Mr & Mrs Phillips…

00/10/1970

Planet News photograph titled 'Laurence Olivier takes 'Old Vic' Company on tour'. caption on back reads: Sir Laurence Olivier and his wife (actress Vivien Leigh) left Euston Station on the 'Corinthic' boat train with the Old Vic company for a nine months tour of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania. Photo shows -- Vivien Leigh says good-bye to Mr. W.J. Jordan, New Zealand High Commissioner, watched by her husband Sir Laurence Olivier, at Euston.

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh leave for Australia

14 Februry 1948

This graphite pencil drawing of the Great Nebula in Orion was made by John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) while on a trip to South Africa in 1835. Herschel was able to draw the nebula with the aid of a 20 feet reflector telescope at 'Feldhausen' in the Cape of Good Hope. The drawing is probably one that is referred to in his diary entry for the date, Sunday 4 January 1835.

The Great Nebula in Orion as seen in the 20 feet Reflector at Feldhausen - Cape of Good Hope

Sunday 4 January 1835

Two "Tenby Pilot" double wall switches made of phenol formaldehyde, made in England, 1929-1940

Two double electrical wall switches

1920-1040

Large polychrome tin glazed earthern-ware vase, scene of St.Martin and the begger, Castelli, Italian, dated 1703

Large polychrome tin glazed earthern-ware vase

1703

Bronze adze blade probably early dynastic, c.3000 B.C.

Bronze adze blad

circa 3000 BCE

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Third Class Picnic Saloon. Exterior and interior views. Revised series. Published November 1904. Published November 1904. (Printed by McCorquodale & Co Limited).

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Third Class Picnic Saloon

1904-11

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Queen Victoria's Saloons. Exterior and interior views. Revised series. Published November 1904. (Printed by McCorquodale & Co Limited).

Coloured postcard. London & North Western Railway. Queen Victoria's Saloons

1904-11

[Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics etc.; illustrated with experiments. ca.1710. 98p. ms., in English but with Latin passages in the hydrostatics section. Comprises sections on mechanics, on hydrostatics, on thermometers, hygrometers and barometers, on catoptrics and dioptrics and on 'Sir Isaac Newton's colours'. Written at a fairly popular level, with many sketches and suggestions for simple experimental demonstration]

Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics etc.

circa 1710

The Art of Metals (Ores) in which is taught the true method of treating by mercury those of gold and silver: the manner of smelting them all and how they are to be refined and separated from one another / Alvaro Alonso Barba. [357 ts. leaves. 1952 translation made by Oswald Hardey Evans in Valparaiso, Chile of an 1817 reprint (in Lima) of the original Spanish version of ca.1640]

The Art of Metals ....

circa 1640; 1817; 1952

[Stationery bills (2) issued to Charles Babbage]/William Creswick, papermaker, John St, Oxford St, 1841 Dec & 1843 Apr. [The bills are for cartridge paper ruled to order]

Stationery bills issued to Charles Babbage

1841-43

Marble copy of a Greek(?) statue of Homer, original possibly 4th to 2nd century BC, copy possibly 1800-1920

Homer

1800-1920; 400-200 BCE

Rail profile set, cased, for flat-bottomed rail, by Glass Developments Ltd, London c.1955.

Rail profile set

1950-1060

Standard printing press converted to an occupational therapy device, hand operated by pulling a handle to strengthen limbs weakened through accident or illness, can be rigged to exercise any part of the body, assembled by hospital workshops, type and additional composing equipment included, 1930-70.

Standard printing press converted to an occupational therapy device

1930-70

Plaster copy of female bust, original probably Roman, 100BC-200AD, replica made 1901-1940

Plaster copy of female bust

100 BCE-200 CE; 1901-1940

Reproduction of Hauksbee's frictional electrical machine

Hauksbee's frictional electrostatic machine, 1706-1708, reconstruction

1706-1708

Hammer head, bronze, with restored wooden handle, Graeco-Roman, 500BC-500AD

Hammer head

1851-1930; 500 BCE-500 CE

Two flint drill Heads and Sandstone Block used for testing similar drills, found on the site of the Temple of Zoser Saqqara, c.3000 BCE

Sandstone blockhead

3000 BCE

Model of English 60-gun warship HMS "Chester", of establishment of 1708. This represents a fourth-rate, 663 tons burthen, 125ft x 34.5ft., built and launched at the Chatham dockyard in 1708, which remained in service until it was broken up in February 1749.

Model of English 60-gun warship HMS 'Chester'

circa 1708

Goods guard journal, Rhymney Railway; Aberdare Branch, Listing stations between Aberdare and Cardiff Docks, Actual and published times of arrival and departure, Waggons, Owners , First Trip, Second trip, Remarks, Instruction to fully report cause of delay.

Rhymney Railway; Aberdare Branch

187_

Iron age axehead, bronze Eastern Europe, Bronze Age.

Iron age axehead

3300-1200 BCE

model, scale 1:10, Unisat satellite, serial number 0067.

Model, scale 1:10, Unisat satellite

1970-80

Part of cake made of compacted figs, probably grave goods, Egyptian, 3500BC to 1500BC

Part of cake made of compacted figs

3500-1500

4 human urinary calculi from prehistoric cemetery of Gebel-Moya, Sudan, from a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

Human Stones from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

5000-1 BCE

2 pieces of incomplete metatarsal bone, sharing exostosis, from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya, Sudan

2 pieces of incomplete metatarsal bone

5000-1 BCE

Extracts from regulations for working single lines of railway on the Electric Train Tablet or Electric Train Staff Block System for the guidance of Enginemen, Guards and others concerned. 43 page booklet produced by the London & North Western Railway.

Train Signalling Regulations

January 1923

Plaster copy of female bust, original probably Roman, 100BC-200AD, replica made 1901-1940

Plaster copy of female bust

100 BC-200 CE; 1901-1940

Two wooden boxes containing 146 glass lecture slides on Public Health themes, showing slum clearance schemes in Britain and abroad, diagrammatic details of construction, and modern flats in c1949, reproductions of historical documents, etc, provenance unknown, 1930-1955.

146 glass lecture slides on public health

1930-55

Reproduction of a Roman groma, based on one excavated at Pompeii, 1st century AD

Reproduction of a Roman groma

1-79 CE; before 1923

Wheel barometer, Hooke's principle (1655-65), probably by Negretti and Zambra, London, England, 1960

Hooke's wheel type barometer, 1655-1665

1960? (original 1655-1665)

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