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Instrument case, England, 1650-1700

Surgery

1650-1700

Medicine chest, Ireland, 1771-1790

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1771-1790

Hadley's Gregorian reflecting telescope, c.1740

Astronomy

1740-1744

Surgical instrument set, Europe, 1650-1685

Surgery

1650-1685

Fishskin case, empty, felt lined, 1750 to 1850

Wellcome (general)

1750-1850

Silver-mounted fishskin etui, empty

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1830

Pocket surgical instrument set, incomplete, case o

Surgery

1701-1850

Spectacle (?) case, silver-mounted green fishskin,

Ophthalmology

1750-1900

Fishskin case, English(?), 1730-1830

Surgery

1730-1830

Oat-Beard type Hygrometer, 1771-1830

Meteorology

1771-1830

Case for one draw tube opera glass

Optics

1780-1850

Pocket set of drawing instruments

Mathematics

Case, fishskin, empty, felt lined with metal clips

Wellcome (general)

1750-1850

Wilson screw barrel microscope (brass) in fishskin

Microscopes

1753

Pocket surgical instrument set in fishskin case

Surgery

1701-1850

Pocket surgical instrument case

Surgery

small telescope (prospect glass; spyglass; opera g

Optics

1759

Fishskin case only, possibly held surgical instrum

Surgery

1701-1830

Black fishskin spectacle case

Optics

1780-1870

leather framed eyeglasses with iron nose clip, in

Optics

c. 1700

Opera glass, one draw tube

Optics

1725-1735

Culpeper Compound microscope, with accessories, by Scarlett

Microscopes

1735-1745

Holt's urethral dilator and two cannulae

Surgery

Microscope by Marshall, c. 1700

Microscopes

1695-1705

Compound drum microscope

Microscopes

1740
Fishskin case for pear shaped troy pound weight.

instrument case

Weighing & Measuring

1737

Equinoctial ring dial, by Honemann

King George III

1725-1775

Terrestrial refracting telescope

King George III

Lined fishskin case for Farey's Ellipsograph

Mathematics
Black fishskin case for Poids de Marc weight, 1735

Fishskin case for weight

Weighing & Measuring

Double, bow, spectacle case, wood and fishskin, En

Ophthalmology

1701-1800

Pocket surgical instrument set

Surgery

Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775

Surveying

1765-1775

Pocket case of mathematical drawing instruments by

Mathematics

1797-1826

Lithotomy set

Surgery

Octagonal silver sundial in case

Time Measurement

1701-1750

Fishskin case, possibly held, surgical instruments

Surgery

1701-1830

Fishskin case, empty, English(?), 1701-1850

Surgery

1701-1850

Pocket surgical instrument set in silver mounted f

Surgery
Gunner's level in case, made by George Adams the Younger, Fleet Street, London, 1772-1796.

Gunner's level in case

King George III

1772-1796
Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 1/8 inch aperture with shagreen covered tube and wooden case. The telescope has a ball and socket stand with a claw foot tripod and a mahogany stand made by the Science Museum workshops. Attached to the wooden stand is another ball and socket mounting with screw stand added by Mr T H Court, the donor.

Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 1/8 inch apert

Astronomy

1724-1731
Grey/black fishskin case for spyglass telescope, lined with pink velvet, unsigned, Europe, 1745-1755

Grey/black fishskin case for spyglass telescope

Optics

1745-1755
Medicine chest, fishskin covered, 18 bottles, 14 labelled, 9 by Garden of Oxford Street and 3 by Coley of Stroud, with glass pestle and mortar, 1800-1880

Fishskin covered medicine chest, 1800-1880

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1800-1880
Ellis type aquatic microscope, by Peter Dollond, London, England, c. 1765; in fishskin case with accessories: 3 objective lenses, 3 bone slides, 1 ivory container, 2 pieces of glass, 1 pair of tweezers, 1 adjustable probe, 1 spare crosspiece for mounting microscope. Compound and simple microscope attachments.

Ellis type aquatic microscope, by Peter Dollond

Microscopes
Surgical instrument set comprising six scalpels, 2 curved bistouries and a hook; scalpels by Young of Edinburgh, 1 bistoury by Savigny of London, in case, 19th century

Surgical instrument set

Surgery
Pendulum-type pedometer, in velvet lined fishskin case, by George Adams the Younger, Fleet Street, London, England, 1780-1795.

Pendulum-type Pedometer, English, 1780-95

Surveying

1780-1795
Fishskin case for set of lithotomy instruments, c.1775, English

Fishskin case for set of lithotomy instruments, c.1775, English

Surgery

1771-1780
Lady's companion in fish skin case, Chinese(?) or Japanese(?), 1850-1920

Medicine scale in fish skin case

Asian Medicine

1850-1920
Cylindrical wooden fishskin covered case for prospect glass (spyglass), probably English, 1725-1735.

Cylindrical wooden fishskin covered case for prosp

Optics

1725-1735
Brass spyglass decorated with shagreen and with an achromatic lens, by Jesse Ramsden, London, England, 1762-1800

Brass spyglass decorated with shagreen and with an achromatic lens

Optics

1762-1800