Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

1792

Vacuum Gauge by Boulton and Watt

1794

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bronze medal to commemorate Marat, France, 1793

1793

White metal (alloy?) medal, commemorates the emigr

1794

Fourteen-Kreutzer coin of Francis I (Austria)

1793

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Spade' coin Guinea of George III

1793

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Engraving and letterpress, 'The Shaving Machine…'

1794

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Manuscript instructions and receipt for Ramsden solar microscope, 1793

1793

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

The Pin and the Needle

1793

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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

Tobacco box

1792

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

1990-95

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Barton Aqueduct

circa 1793

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

2000 BCE

Board of Agriculture, admittance to Honorary Membership

1793

Bronze trade token

1792

Silver medal to commemorate N.J.G. Leiden Frost

1793

Bronze revolutionary coin or token

1792

Bronze trade token

1792

Silver medal to commemorate the execution of Louis XVI

1793

Metal trade token struck by the revolutionary government at Paris

1792

Silver medal to commemorate Philippe Joseph

1793

Egyptian weight, 12th Dynasty

circa 1800 BCE

Plaster copy of a plaque bearing the portrait of John Hunter

1793

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