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Bronze Spearhead, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Model of Royal Mint gasworks, as at 1817

1817 (original); 1939 (model)

Plaster Cast Reproduction of Civita Lavinia Hemicycle, 1945-1955

350-250 BCE; 1945-1955

Model of Barking smack

1801-1830; 1958

Earthenware jug

2000-500 BCE

Clay figure of animal

2000-1000 BCE

Cubit Stone Measuring Rod

250 BCE; 1931

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

2050-1750 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

2000-1350 BCE

Amulet of a lion-headed goddess

4000-30 BCE

Ointment pot, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Acheulian flint hand axe, c 10000-5000 BC.

10000-5001 BCE

Mummified cat, ancient Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Deer Antler Piercer from Kent, England, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Pyramidal Loom Weight, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Flat-topped Loom Weight, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Scottish Bone Comb for Heckling Flax, Neolithic

9000-2700 BCE

Bronze knife, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Swedish subfossil pine sample, 1998; 1600 BCE

1684-1569 BCE; 1998
Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80
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
Excavated bronze age skull showing 4 healed trephinings, from Jericho, 2200-2000BC

Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine

2200-2000 BCE
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
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
Bronze adze blade probably early dynastic, c.3000 B.C.

Bronze adze blad

circa 3000 BCE
Facsimile edition of The Pencil of Nature, by H. Fox Talbot, 1844-6, edited by Larry Schaaf, published by H. Kraus Jnr., New York, 1988-9

Facsimile Eddition of 'The Pencil of Nature

1988-1989; (1844-1846)
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
Model, scale 1:6, of John Dickinson's cylinder paper making machine of 1809, model made by Science Museum, Workshops, South Kensington, London, England, 1984

Model of Cylinder mould paper-making machine

1809; 1984
Rail profile set, cased, for flat-bottomed rail, by Glass Developments Ltd, London c.1955.

Rail profile set

1950-1060