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Model of a Television Set Tammeter, 1955-1965

Time Measurement

1955-1965

The 'Oxydonor', Canada, 1898-1930

Therapeutics

1898-1930

Leather wallet containing suture wire and needles

Surgery

Ashadar or time stick, Northern India, 1895-1905

Time Measurement

1895-1905

Gourd container filled and decorated with various

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1918

Antler horn tobacco pipe stem, two large horn sect

Smoking

1851-1900

Carved ivory tobacco pipe stem once belonging to a

Smoking

1851-1900

Sand Glass in Wire Mount with an Alarm

Time Measurement

1760-1850

Painted wooden face mask, polychrome, representing young man with moustache wearing fez, said to cure kalaazar fever, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, 1771-1860

Painted polychrome mask

Asian Medicine

1771-1860

Driver's Tea Can, white enamel with side handle and swing-wire overhead handle. Lid is inverted cup with side handle.

Driver's tea can

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

Case, cylindrical brass plated

Wellcome (general)

Electric personal printer, by Brother, 1982

Printing & Writing

1982

Trephining knife

Asian Medicine

1701-1925

Set of tattooing instruments, two shafts and four

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Knife used for various surgical operations, Algeri

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1935

German wooden clock, with foliot type escapement

Time Measurement

1669

Japanese language typewriter, 1985

Electronic Japanese LanguageTtypewriter, 1985.

Printing & Writing

1985

Steel ophthalmic hook with damaged wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925

Ophthalmic hook

Asian Medicine

1701-1925

Compound coil spring spectacles, nickel plated, in snap lid spectacle case, made by T. Armstrong and Brother, English, 1850-1920

Compound coil spring spectacles, nickel plated, in

Ophthalmology

1850-1920

Frontal bone, used by Dr. Wilson Parry to demonstrate trephining by primitive method, trephined entirely by hafted shark's tooth, provenance unknown, 1801-1913

Frontal bone, used by Dr. Wilson Parry to demonstr

Surgery

1801-1913

White porcelain tobacco pipe, horn reservoir, cherrywood stem with horn section and mouthpiece, bowl has transfer print of dapple grey horse and hinged metal cover, possibly Dutch, 1851-1910

White porcelain tobacco pipe, horn reservoir, cher

Smoking

1851-1910

Bracelet composed of human teeth(?), threaded through wire, falling apart, Iceland, 1880-1920

Bracelet composed of human teeth(?), threaded thro

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Horn stem with two sections of antler horn and flexible wire and cloth section for meerschaum tobacco pipe, horn mouthpiece, European, 1831-1880

Horn stem with two sections of antler horn and fle

Smoking

1831-1880

Nargileh, in four parts comprising bowl, reservoir, stand and coiled wire mouthpiece and stem, complete, Arabic, 1850-1925

Nargileh - tobacco pipe

Smoking

1850-1925

Hookah tobacco pipe, enamelled metal base, glazed porcelain water reservoir, silver bowl with clay or lime lining with brass lid, flexible spring tube mouthpiece partly felt covered near end with ivory mount, amber mouthpiece missing, with tweezers attached, Turkish or Persian, 1880-1930

Hookah tobacco pipe (Turkish or Persian)

Smoking

1880-1930

High frequency cage, d'Arsonval's, France, 1898-1910

High frequency cage, d'Arsonval's, France, 1898-19

Therapeutics

Terminal plate, gutta percha(?), rectangular with five brass terminal joints in one line down middle of plate, Riviere apparatus, European, 1880-1930

Terminal plate, gutta percha(?), rectangular with

Therapeutics

1880-1930

Surgical knife, steel blade, wooden handle bound with wire, Algerian, 1701-1925

Surgical knife

Asian Medicine

1701-1925

Plastic face mask with trademark BOC Medical Division, English, 1910-1940

Plastic face mask with trademark BOC Medical Divis

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1910-1940

White glazed porcelain tobacco pipe, handpainted clover like pattern on bowl, horn reservoir, wooden stem with flexible horn and cloth section, horn mouthpiece, Dutch, 1780-1840

White glazed porcelain tobacco pipe, handpainted c

Smoking

1780-1840

Repeater, cylinder, going barrel, by Breguet, no.357, Parachute and curb compensator, wire gong, in gold case, silver dial (out of order) with small gold(?) chain

Repeater, cylinder, going barrel, by Breguet, no.3

Time Measurement

c. 1800

Magnifying glass convexed lens set in simple wire frame joined at ends to form handle, European, 19th century

Magnifying glass convexed lens set in simple wire

Ophthalmology

1801-1900

Meerschaum tobacco pipe in the form of a porcelain pipe with elliptical reservoir with horn and flexible hose stem (part missing), Austrian, 1863-1864

Meerschaum tobacco pipe in the form of a porcelain

Smoking

1863

1/4-repeater, cylinder, going barrel, by Ls. Lacroix, Turin, in gold case, silver dial, wire gong (1 Janvier 1833 on case), no.8044 (in case)

1/4-repeater, cylinder, going barrel, by Ls. Lacro

Time Measurement

1833

Opera glasses, coil spring, nickel plated, wire and vulcanite, in frogmouth leather case, opera glasses right lenses incomplete, T. Armstrong and Brother, makers, English, 1850-1920

Opera glasses, coil spring, nickel plated, wire an

Ophthalmology

1850-1920

Magnifying glass, simple construction consisting of lens with wire frame, in cardboard case, crudely made, European, 19th century

Magnifying glass, simple construction consisting o

Ophthalmology

Cotton covered bamboo stem for opium pipe, two tubes emanating from reservoir top, one is bent downwards forming long horizontal stem, Chinese, 1851-1900

Stem for opium pipe with two tubes from reservoir top

Asian Medicine

1851-1900

Surgical knife, steel, with wooden handle, Algerian, 1701-1925

Surgical knife

Asian Medicine

1701-1925

Wood board with five terminals (one missing) in two rows of three wired underneath board in series, riviere material, European, 1880-1930

Wood board with five terminals (one missing) in tw

Therapeutics

1880-1930

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephining by push-plough method with flint, provenance unknown, 1801-1920

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry

Surgery

1801-1920

Compound, coil spring, spectacles, nickel plated, in tuck in spectacle case

Compound, coil spring, spectacles, nickel plated,

Ophthalmology

1850-1920

Microscopist, coil spring, magnifying, spectacles, nickel plated, in snap lid leather case, made by Carl Zeiss, East German, 1900-1950

Microscopist, coil spring, magnifying, spectacles,

Ophthalmology

1900-1950

Opera glasses, coil spring, nickel plated with frogmouth case, leather, makers T. Armstrong and Brother of Manchester and Liverpool, English, 1850-1920

Opera glasses, coil spring, nickel plated with fro

Ophthalmology

1850-1920

Pince nez, spectacles, steel wire (?), incomplete, English, 1851-1900

Pince nez, spectacles, steel wire (?), incomplete,

Ophthalmology

1851-1900