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Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

Clockmakers

1675-1685

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Spring clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

Clockmakers

1675

Set of architect's drawing instruments by various

Mathematics

Valve radio

Radio Communication

c.1935

Roberts type monaural stethoscope, reputedly English, 1870-1880

Clinical Diagnosis

1870-1880

Eclipse Demonstration Model

Astronomy

1867

Compound microscope in walnut, with gilt tooled le

Microscopes

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

Post mortem set

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1877-1900

small telescope (prospect glass; spyglass; opera g

Optics

1759

Scioptic ball with fixed mirror, 1745-1755

King George III

1745-1755

"The Artists" Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1875 - 1885

novelty spyglass (prospect glass?), 2-draw tube, i

Optics

1701-1800

Flexographic printing block, handset, 1940-1977

Printing Block Used in Flexographic Printing, 1940-1977

Printing & Writing

1940-1977

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