The Patent Revolving Album 9. Walnut carte-de-visite automatic viewer holding 26 cartes-de-visite in 13 holders, on walnut cradle with carved legs. Key in bottom. The Patent Revolving Album Photographs 1875-1885
Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates. No makers name (but probably French or German). Folding plate camera in walnut with nickel fittings. No lens or panel. Sliding rising and cross front. Front fixed, back adjustable in three positions with peg and keyslot fittings. Rack and pinion focussing, double extension bellows. Hinged baseplate locked by sliding element. With one bookform wooden double darkslide. Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates Photographic Technology 1900
Linos plate camera, made by Romain Talbot, Berlin. Folding wooden plate camera for 9 x 12 cm plates. RR lens F:6", f8.4-64; one blade shutter settings marked 1-9 and Z cocked by key. Sliding rising front ; swing front, sliding focussing. (M4635) Linos plate camera Photographic Technology c. 1898
Barometer by Watkins, London, England, 1747-1765 Barometer, by Francis Watkins, 1747-1765 Meteorology 1747-1765
Walnut case for set of surgical instruments, by Savigny, c.1855 Surgery instrument set case, c. 1855. Surgery 1851-1860
Adze, North Eastern Railway. Found at South Pelaw Sidings signalbox. Adze, North Eastern Railway Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories
Cabinet approx 253x510x280mm; walnut veneer with inlaid corners; rack focused eyepieces (hoods chipped); Fluted glass knobs for turning belt of stereograph holders (tape broken); Hinged lids, one with mirror; ground glass (cracked). Cabinet stereoscope Photographic Technology
Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates. No makers name. Folding plate camera in walnut with nickel fittings. No lens or panel. Sliding rising and cross front. Front fixed, back adjustable in three positions with peg and keyslot fittings. Rack and pinion focussing, double extension bellows. Hinged baseplate locked by sliding element. Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates Photographic Technology
Newtonian reflecting telescope, made to specifications of Leon Foucault (originally fitted with silver-on-glass mirror) by Secretan, mounted on wooden table stand, Paris, 1857-1868. Accessories include three eye-pieces in fitted leather lined wooden case. Newtonian Reflecting Telescope, by Secretan, 1857-1868 Astronomy 1857-1868
Portrait of William Hancock by Charles Hancock, oil on canvas . William Hancock is depicted seated half length. He wears a black coat and his left arm rests on a raised object, possibly the back of a chair. The background is a gradient of black to brown. The painting is in a rectangular frame of walnut wood with a gilt beading inner. A plaque beneath the painting reads ‘WILLIAM HANCOCK. BORN JULY 1788’. Portrait of William Hancock Charles Hancock about 1819-1877