Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date
Bamboo tube tobacco pipe, Borneo, 1880-1930

Bamboo tube tobacco pipe, Borneo, 1880-1930

1880-1930

Wooden crutch with double bend at top

Wooden crutch with double bend at top

1801-1920

Shuttles for weaving narrow fabrics

Shuttles for weaving narrow fabrics

1858-1862

Richards' Steam Indicator, 1862

Richards' Steam Indicator, 1862

1862-1888

Saddler's straight wooden loop stick (short).

Saddler's straight wooden loop stick (short).

Double-pronged comb decorated with incised circles and lines

Double-pronged comb decorated with incised circles and lines

1880-1930

Pill cutter

Pill cutter

1851-1900

Pill cutter base

Pill cutter base

1851-1975

Carpenter bow saw, 8 t.p.i.; by Spear & Jackson.

Carpenter bow saw, 8 t.p.i.; by Spear & Jackson.

1819-1937

Double-pronged comb of black hardwood with elaborately carved middle section

Double-pronged comb of black hardwood with elaborately carved middle section

1880-1930

Saddle maker's tail-pad float

Saddle maker's tail-pad float

A  coachmakers panel beating wooden Mallet.

A coachmakers panel beating wooden Mallet.

Unknown

A  coachmakers  bradawl.

A coachmakers bradawl.

Unknown

Pill cutter

Pill cutter

1801-1900

Pill cutter tray

Pill cutter tray

1851-1900

Pill cutter

Pill cutter

1801-1900

Component parts from model of top of Newcastle coal mine (scale 1.24) comprising of a brass boiler house

Component parts from model of top of Newcastle coal mine (scale 1.24) comprising of a brass boiler house

Pill cutter

Pill cutter

1851-1875

Pill cutter

Pill cutter

1870-1901

Bench for textile shears.

Bench for textile shears.

Coachmakers 'french curve' marking out template

Coachmakers 'french curve' marking out template

Unknown

Saddler's 1 7/16" straight wooden  loop stick.

Saddler's 1 7/16" straight wooden loop stick.

Coachmaker's mahogany marking out template

Coachmaker's mahogany marking out template

Unknown

Model of a teasing mill, also known as a gig-mill, for raising the fibres of woollen cloth, reputed to be 18th century (scale 1:8).

Model of a teasing mill

1800-1820

Small carved hard wood kneeling female figure with five infants and mirror glass eyes, possibly made by Bakongo from Congo, 1850-1920

Carved figure of woman with five infants

1850-1920

13 turned hardwood tool handles, mostly with brass ferrules but some are iron. These, and the handles on the tools above, are bought commercial articles.

Thirteen hardwood tool handles, with brass or iron ferrules

1790-1819

Spinning wheel Italian, late 17th century.

Spinning wheel Italian, late 17th century.

1651-1700

Induced currents apparatus on hardwood base, by the Eureka Scientific Co. Ltd. (lacks soft iron rod; coils slightly damaged)

Induced currents apparatus on hardwood base

1928-1969

Sonometer

Sonometer, before 1752.

1701-1750

Handstamp, hardwood, signature of A E Tattershall, Assistant Chief Engineer (Signals), London & North Eastern Railway, c1943.

London & North Eastern Railway Handstamp

1938-1948