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Handheld reading lens and case

Optics

1680-1700

Demainbray's polemoscope

King George III

1701-1752

Wooden case for blood transfusion apparatus

Public Health & Hygiene

1914-1918

Case of artificial eyes, French.

Ophthalmology

Metal insert from upper part of field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

Insert from a field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

Canvas roll for surgical instruments from a surgical pannier, 1905

Canvas roll for surgical instruments

Surgery

1905

Carry case for Compaq portable personal computer, c. 1984

Computing & Data Processing

1982-1984

Small wooden case for silvered and platinized glas

Astronomy

Velvet-lined leatherette case for Queen Alexandria's watch-type actinometer.

Case for Queen Alexandra's Wynne's Infallible Exposure Meter

Photographic Technology

1893

Cardboard case for Philips tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

1956-1963

Portsmouth camera club sliver medal case. J Purser and Sons Limited. 1937. Black leatherette box, silk and velvet inside. Printed inside lid 'J P Limited, J Peser and Sons Ltd (R E Pickettt), The Jewellers, Portsmouth, Southsea and Southampton'.

Portsmouth camera club sliver medal case

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1937

Case for Laryngoscope set

Clinical Diagnosis

1901-1930

Case for 'Klinostik' diagnostic sets, England, 1930-1960

Clinical Diagnosis

1930-1960

Case for Sir William Mather Es

Local History

c.1870s-2006

Leather case for a Zeiss-Ikon Diaphot exposure meter. Lined with green felt with white metal stud.

Case for a Zeiss-Ikon Diaphot exposure meter

Photographic Technology

Red plastic coated steel case for black plastic frame spectacles, with brass 'leaf' decorations

Optics

1965-1970

Case for phonendoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

Beamscale, in mahogany and glass case

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1886

Leather case for aesthesiometer

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1856-1900

Leather case for post mortem set, most instruments by Laundy of London, 1783-1843, relic of Abernethy

Leather case for post mortem set

Anatomy & Pathology

1783-1843

Miner's pocket watch dust case

Coal Mining

Amulet consisting of brown polished immature coconut

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1871-1910

Case for multidose Jet Injection Apparatus

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1975

Case for embryograph, designed by His, perhaps by Hartnack, French or German, late 19th century

Case for embryograph

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1871-1900

Pee Wee portable warning case, prototype, yellow, ABS vacuum formed, designed by Denver Brown, British Rail Research and Development Divisions' Plastic Development Unit.

Pee Wee portable warning case, British Rail

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

case for USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20, 1940-1945

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Leather case for British Telecom Ivory ESN mobile telephone, 1989-1995

Telecommunications

1989-1995

Case for Lennox Browne's laryngoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1871-1900

Case for Lennox Browne's laryngoscope set

Clinical Diagnosis

1879-1900

Carrying case for Philips tape recorder

Sound Reproduction

1956-1963

Apple Newton MessagePad case, 1993

Computing & Data Processing

1993

Fabric case for Pilot 5000 electronic organiser, 1996

Computing & Data Processing

1996

Cripplegate Institute silver medal lined case. Leatherette case, with silk lining and blue velvet.

Cripplegate Institute silver medal lined case

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1912-1913

Black fishskin case for Avoirdupois pound weight, 1737

Case for Avoirdupois pound weight

Weighing & Measuring

Black fishskin case for Poids de Marc weight, 1735

Fishskin case for weight

Weighing & Measuring

Wooden case for four speculum metal mirrors of 4

Astronomy

1840-1850

Circular horn(?), snuff box or medal case with sep

Smoking

1751-1900

Vinyl Records Case

Creative Industries

Display case, containing Roll of Honour of Staff of the North Eastern Railway Company killed in the Great War 1914-1918 and Roll of Honour of Staff of the North Eastern Area, London & North Eastern Railway Company killed in World War II 1939-1945. Overall: 1034 mm x 1407 mm x 555 mm.

Display case, containing Roll of Honour of Staff of the North Eastern Railway Company

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1918

Case for prototype of Tanners Harpenden Anthropometer

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

Box for Multiweigh kitchen scale

Weighing & Measuring

1997

Briefcase

Coal Mining

Case for laryngoscopic set used by Mott, c 1880

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Wooden instrument case

Wellcome (general)

1870-1926

Case from "Livingstone" medicine chest, used by Algot Lange on the Amazon expedition of 1911, by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., English, early 20th century

Livingstone medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Clinical mercury thermometer, Fahrenheit, cased, John Hunter's type, by William Cary, London c.1800

Hunter type clinical thermometer

Clinical Diagnosis

1791-1820

Glass display case for prepared human skull in glass display case, by Tramond, French, 1870-1900

Glass display case for prepared human skull

Anatomy & Pathology

1870-1900

Slip in case for slide rule used by Rusholme bicycle frame maker Johnny Berry to draw designs.

Slip in case for slide rule used by Johnny Berry

Road Transport

War Dept. stereoscope type W.1C/VC 7447 Type D case.

War Dept. stereoscope type W.1C/VC 7447 Type D case

Photographic Technology

Kodak portrait attachment No.1 tin

Tin For Kodak Portrait Attachment No 1

Photographic Technology