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Hamann Manus R manual calculating machine with automatic division, serial no. 42478, by DeTeWe Communications GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 1953-1955

Hamann Manus R manual calculating machine with automatic division

1953-1955

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Ostend (France). Boxed set of 9 brass cylindrical knobbed weights for the Metric Livre and 8 flat grain weights.

Castlereagh Collection weights

1800-1818

Cheese-shaped brass weight for a commercial pound from the Castlereagh Collection for Lubeck (Germany).

Cheese-shaped brass weight

1800-1818

Flying Fish manual calculating machine, model JSY-20, Serial no. 648635 by the Shanghai Calculating & Typewriter MFG Works, c. 1965

Flying Fish manual calculating machine

1965-1970

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Trieste (Italy). Set of 8 brass nested cup weights with hinged case for the Venetian Mark in a boxwood turned case with lid.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Trieste

1800-1820

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Philadelphia (USA). A set of 4 rectangular brass troy weights.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Philadelphia

1800-1818

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stettin (Poland). Set of 9 brass nested cup weights with hinged case.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stettin

1800-1818

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stockholm (Sweden). Boxed set of 4 square tapering brass knobbed weights for the Mint Mark and the commercial pound.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stockholm

1800-1818

Julius Totalisator Equipment odds machine.

Julius Totalisator

c. 1933

Print of Herrenhausen Gardens, Herrenhausen, Hanover, artist unknown, made about 1708, titled 'Maison de Plaisir d'Herrenhausen de S.A. Electorale de Brunswic Luneberge &c [...] with parallel text in Dutch.

Print of Herrenhausen Gardens

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Calais (France). Boxed set of ll cylindrical knobbed brass weights and 8 small flat brass weights both for the metric Livre.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Calais

1800-1818

Horizontal head-spanner for head measurement, made by Cambridge Scientific Instruments, associated with Francis Galton, c.1896.

Head-spanner for head measurement

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Tunis (Tunisia). Set of 10 circular flat brass weights for the Rotul (commercial pound).

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Tunis

1800-1818

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Venice (Italy). Set of 8 brass nested cup weights and hinged case with wooden screw lid box for the Pound Mark.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Venice

1800-1820

Boxed set of 9 cylindrical brass knobbed weights with 11 small flat brass grain weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Antwerp (Belgium).

Cylindrical brass knobbed weights

1800-1818

Set of 9 brass nested cup weights for 128 Ducato dated 1818, from the Castlereagh Collection for Gothenburg (Sweden).

Nested cup weights, brass

1818

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Danzig (Poland). Boxed set of 19 rectangular brass weights (6 missing) for the Loth.

Weights and original correspondence from the Castlereagh Collection for Danzig (Poland)

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for silver & gold with 12 flat carat weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Fiume, Istria (Italy).

Nested cup weights, brass

1800-1818

Chart: Estimated Cost and Personnel, 1950

Estimated Cost and Personnel

1950

Set of 10 brass nested cup weights for the Mark dated 1818, from the Castlereagh Collection for Hamburg (Germany).

Nested cup weights, brass

1818

Set of 7 small flat brass weights for the Roman Pound of 12 ounces from the Castlereagh Collection for Ancona (Italy).

brass flat weights

1800-1818

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Carthagena (Tunisia). Two set of 9 brass nested cup weights, 8 circular brass knobbed weights and 22 small flat brass grain weights in fitted wooden box.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Carthagena (Tunisia). Two set of 9 brass nested cup weights

1800-1820

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the livre from the Castlereagh Collection for Charante (France).

Nested cup weights, brass

1800-1820

Glass representation of Octahedron, marked '3' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Octahedron

Glass representation of Cube, with a small manuscript numbered label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Cube

Glass representation of Triacontahedron, marked '12' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Triacontahedron

Glass representation of Cuboctahedron, marked '7' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Cuboctahedron

Glass representation of Excube, marked '6' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Excube

Glass representation of Trapezohedron, marked '5' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Trapezohedron

Glass representation of Regular Dodecahedron, marked '10' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Regular Dodecahedron

Glass representation of Pentahedron, marked '9' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Pentahedron

Glass representation of Tetradodecahedron, marked '17' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Tetradodecahedron

Glass representation of Hexagonal Prism, with a small manuscript numbered label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Hexagonal Prism

Glass representation of Cone, marked '24' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Cone

Glass representation of Rhomboidal Tetrahedron, marked '33' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Rhomboidal Tetrahedron

Glass representation of Scalene Dodecahedron, with a small manuscript numbered label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Scalene Dodecahedron

Glass representation of Trapezoidal Dodecahedron, with a small manuscript numbered label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Trapezoidal Dodecahedron

Glass representation of Acute Rhombohedron, with a small manuscript numbered label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Acute Rhombohedron

Glass representation of Triangular Pyramid, with a small manuscript numbered label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Triangular Pyramid

Boxed thermometer with brass weight, from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey).

Boxed mercury thermometer with brass weight, that came from the Castlereagh Collection in the drawer for Constantinople (Turkey)

1800-1818

Glass representation of Triangular Prism, marked '28' on a small manuscript label in a compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Glass representation of Triangular Prism

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for one Mark from the Castlereagh Collection for Minorca (Spain).

Nested cup weights, brass

1800-1818

Square brass weight for one commercial pound.

Square brass weight

1800-1818

Single cup weight of 1 Mark from the Castlereagh Collection for Madrid (Spain).

Castlereagh Collection weights

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Castilian Mark for weighing gold or silver from the Castlereagh Collection for Madrid (Spain).

Nested cup weights, brass

1800-1818

Set of 8 brass nested cup weights with case for weighing gold and silver from the Castlereagh Collection for Valencia (Spain).

Nested cup weights, brass

1800-1818

Set of 5 grain weights for weighing gold or silver from the Castlereagh Collection for Madrid (Spain).

Grain weights

1800-1818

Optical balance level, after a type used in the 17th Century, British, 1700-1799

Optical balance level

1700-1799

Trial model for part of Babbage's difference engine, on board

Demonstration model of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1, 19th century.

1871-1900

Weight from the Castlereagh Collection for Canary Isles (Spain). Looped iron weight of 10 pounds.

Weight for Canary Isles (Spain)

1800-1818

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