Five-Guinea coin of George II
1748
Spy Glass (c.1730) ivory with screw focus
1730
Pamphlet - "A description of the Compound (commonly call'd the Reflecting or Double) microscope. With Great Improvements"
1747
Print showing Newsham's fire engine
1748
Engraving: View of the Sunk Pier and Arches at Westminster Bridge
1748
Printed Form
1747
Trade card: Patrick Sullivan
1738-1743
Trade card: Thomas Page
1735
Trade card: Benjamin Cole
1744-1748
Trade card: Steph. Davenport
1736-1737
Trade card: Henry de Leth. Advertisement in French. c1735. Seller of maps
1735
Trade card: Thomas Heath
1720-1747
Haematite weight, Syrian
2200 BCE
Lancet(?), bronze, Egypto-Roman
20-500
Bronze retractor, Romano-Egyptian
30-400
Wooden herb box
1851-190
Aural scoop, bronze, Romano-Egyptian
30-500
Aural scoop, bronze, Roman, from Sforza collection
1995-500
Astronomical circles with compass
1720
Simple narrow wooden comb
2000-1000
English tin-glazed earthware pharmacy jar
1720-1740
Brass sector to the design of N. Goldman
1723
Square medicine bottle with engraved foliate design
1733
Plaster copy of sarcophagus cover of the hydrocephalic dwarf Zeher
1920-1932; 332 BCE-638 CE
Model (scale 1:24) of the 12 Zodiacal Dials (Rashivalaya Yantra), with fragments from a figurine belonging to the model
1998-1886
Pan scales in wooden box with weights
1739
9 flint chips or blades, possibly neolithic
3000-1500
Early wine bottle, about 1740
1735-1745
Bow, Nuremberg spectacles
1749
Powder-Tester (c. 1730)
1730
Powder-Tester (c. 1740)
1740
Alabaster weight, Syrian Deden system
circa 2000 BCE
Autoradiograph of mitochondrial DNA used in the identification of the remains of Jesse James
1997-8
Babylonian "duck" weight
circa 2000 BCE
Washers, 25mm outer dia. and 14mm inner diameter
14/7/27
Two washers
15/7/27
Leicester height measurer by Child Growth Foundation
1994-5
Engraving, showing a rooftop observatory and zodiac
1740
"Machina da Batter travi fabricata in Verona e posta in uso L'ANNO MDCCXLVI"
1746
Pottery vase, from Nihawnad, Persia, 3000 BCE
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
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