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Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Mechang pouch (chuckmuck), Tibet

One of a pair of muzzle loading flintlock pistols, said to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, barrel length 198 mm / 7.8 in and calibre 13.95 mm / 0.5 in, unknown maker, Russia, 1801-1830

One of a Pair of Muzzle Loading Flintlock Pistols

1801-1830

Flint fish-hook, incomplete tip missing, probably neolithic, dates uncertain, tied to card backing, from Suffolk, probably English

Flint fish-hook

Flint arrowhead, on card bacing from Icklingham, Suffolk, possibly neolithic, England, dates uncertain

Flint arrowhead

Spearhead, finely worked flints, tied to backing card, from Scotland, possibly neolithic, dates uncertain, probably Scottish

Spearhead, finely worked flints

Flint axehead, possibly found at Furze Platt in 1934, palaeolithic

Flint axehead

1000-500

4 trephining instruments of flint and bone, presumably made and used by Dr.T. Wilson Parry in experiments on neolithic trephination, England, 1918-1920

4 trephining instruments of flint and bone

1918-1920

Steel hand striker with piece of flint

Steel hand striker with piece of flint

Head of Agfa magnesium flash powder flashgun. Flint wheel rotated by clockwork. Folding flash tray. Handle missing. Agfa.

Agfa flashgun

Agfa 'Flashlight-Lamp' kit. Clockwork powered magnesium powder flashgun, 6.5 x 5cm folding tray with detachable handle. Serrated wheel working on flint, released by hand or cable release. Manufactured by Agfa, Germany, about 1922.

Flashlight-Lamp

1917-1927

Fitted flint

Fitted flint

Flint core, owned by Dr. T. Wilson Parry and probably used by him as a source of material for making instruments used in trephination experiments, England, 1918-1920

Flint core

1918-1920

2 trephining instruments, flint blades and wooden handles, presumably made by and used Dr. T. Wilson Parry in experiments on neolithic trephination, England, 1918-1920

2 trephining instruments

1918-1920