Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Trade card: T. Harris & Son

1820

Fancy Glass Working

1811-1820

Trade card: Cornelius Varley

1811

Single opera glass, ivory body covered with turned decoration

1822

Early spectacles: silver frame

circa 1820

Solar microscope with rack barrel objective

1890-1810

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Portable hydrostatic balance by Tuther

1820

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Bust of bearded man

1811

Wilkinson type Guinea balance

1817-1820

Wollaston's planisphere

1812

Ready reckoner, c 1820.

circa 1820

Strigil hanger, bronze, Roman, from Luxor

20-400

Piece of cloth from Edward Jenner's coffin, United Kingdom, 1823

1823

Hot Goose, Cabbage & Cucumbers

1823

Dr. William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer

1814

Colonel F. Macirone

1822

Horisontorium

1822

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Spherical model part

1812-1813

Brass die with corresponding paper conversion scale

1816

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

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

Five lancets

1822

Silver lancet case, empty

1813

Lancet case, silver, made in Birmingham, 1823

1823

2 lancets

1821

Sterling silver pap boat

1819

Silver lancet case, empty

1822

2 lancets

1822

Two lancets

1815

Clay tobacco pipe

1860-1715

Obstetrical forceps, Norway, 1801-1900

1872-3

Silver pap boat

1811

Lancet case

1819-1820

Four weight hydrometer, in box, serial no 13941.

circa 1817

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE