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Filings coherer, glass tube with side-pocket attached to mounting bracket, 1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube with side-pocket attached to mounting bracket, 1894-1904

1894-1904
Model of the British Admiralty Boardroom, showing the Navy Board's presentation to King Charles II for the 1677 Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme

Model of the British Admiralty Boardroom, showing the Navy Board's presentation to King Charles II for the 1677 Thirty-Ship Shipbuilding Programme

1960
Model of silk doubling machine

Model of silk doubling machine

1873
Claude Lorrain mirror

Claude Lorrain mirror

1875-1900
Model of 'Stuart' yacht

Model of 'Stuart' yacht

1933-1939
Model of a Junk from Chinchow

Model of a Junk from Chinchow

1925-1935
Suturing silk

Suturing silk

2013
Coloured amulets

Coloured amulets

1801-1910
Mounted mauve silk skein dyed with mauveine

Mounted mauve silk skein dyed with mauveine

Ten coloured flasks (blue, brown & colourless) set in oblong fringed cushion, decorated with multicoloured, trellis bead work, said to cure eye pain, Middle East, 1801-1910

Ten coloured flasks said to cure eye pain

1801-1910
Steel beam balance, upward-pointing pin, weight below knife-edge fulcrum, with brass pans hung from silk thread, fenestrated swan-necked beam ends

Swan-necked beam balance

Coin scales with steel beam and tin pans, suspended from orange silk thread, contained in oval japanned tin box (without weights see other parts), English, 1735-1900

Coin scales with steel beam and tin pans

1735-1900
Set of coin scales a in a rectangular wooden box (without weights see other parts), box makers mark impressed inside, made by Matthias Mettman, a well known Cologne scalemaker, German, 1651

Coin scales

1651
Model, scale 1:64, of a Stuart era yacht, c.1690, a half-scale copy of the contemporary model in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, on two wood feet, signed on stern, 1933-1939.

Model of 'Stuart' yacht

1933-1939
Bottle of "New Era" dental floss, by Johnson and Johnson Ltd., London, 1930-1960

Bottle of "New Era" dental floss

1930-1960
Four coloured flasks (blue & brown) set in oblong fringed cushion, decorated with multicoloured, trellis bead work, said to cure eye pain, unsigned, Middle Eastern, 1801-1910.

Coloured amulets

1801-1910