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Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of Ten 'Abdulla' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Packet of 5 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

1920-1950

Thalomid (thalidomide) capsules

1999

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Quinine pills in box

Penguin book

1948

Selection of Cigarette Packets

1920-1950

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Tropical sunshine recorder Mk IIIA by Casella

1959

Packet of 20 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Navy Cut Tobacco

1920-1950

Penguin book

1946

'Lady Penelope's Fab 1' die-cast metal car from Thunderbirds, with original box

1973

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Packet of 10 'Small Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes

1920-1950

Six lancets in a tortoiseshell case

1701-1900

Packet of 20 'Havana Blend' cigarettes manufactured by B Morris and Sons Limited

1920-1950

'Progress' toy gyroscope, 1950-1960

1950-1960

Orrery planetary model

1789-1795

Glass 100ml bottle in box of Valium 2 syrup (diazepam)

1974-1982

'Thunderbirds' Dinky Toys, 1960s.

1966-1973

the opening of the stockton and darlington railway

1825

Penguin book

1963

Dalek

circa 1966

LP `Mister Rock `N' Roll'

1969

The Spotniks

1963

LP Dave Clark Five `Catch Us If You Can'

1965

Map of the East Indian Railway

1846

‘Handbook for Attendants on the Insane’

1902

Educational toy

1851-1900

Philips' Planisphere

1910-1915

Ishihara colour blindness test, London, England, 1948

1948

Photograph of the instruments used by the British expedition when observing the 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazil.

1919

Packet of 9 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

1920-1950

Photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), taken by Isaac Roberts using a twin telescope (20-inch reflector & 7-inch refractor) by Howard Grubb of Dublin. Taken with an exposure of 4 hours on 29th December 1888 at his observatory & home at Maghull, near Liverpool.

Photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

1888

Photograph of lunar crater model

1850-1874

'Six-Five Special !"

1957

Bryant & May's book matches 'Over 100 Years of Good Matches'

circa 1960

'Numbers in Colour' set, a mathematical teaching aid

1964

'Contraband' card game, Pepys series, boxed, manufactured in Great Britain by Castell Brothers Ltd., London, 1950-1960

Contraband Card Game

1950-1960

Medicine chest used by David Livingstone, Europe, 1860-1873

1861-1873

'Electrical Mah Jong' card game, 1924

1924

Philips' Planisphere, ten inch model, 1886

1886

Coneuro nerve sedative

1920-1960

Book titled 'Floor Games' by HG Wells, London, England, 1911

1911

Book, entitled 'The Impregnable Women'

1959