Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Bamboo tube tobacco pipe, Borneo, 1880-1930

1880-1930

Wooden crutch with double bend at top

1801-1920

Double-pronged comb decorated with incised circles and lines

1880-1930

Coachmakers 'french curve' marking out template

Unknown

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

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

1880-1930

Saddler's straight wooden loop stick (short).

Saddle maker's tail-pad float

Coachmaker's mahogany marking out template

Unknown

Shuttles for weaving narrow fabrics

1858-1862

Richards' Steam Indicator, 1862

1862-1888

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

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

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

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

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