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Handpump used in coal mine air sampling

circa 1950

Machine Tool

Hammer Heads, Drill Bits, Punches and Chisels

Six Bottom Swages for Swage Tools

Box of Gauges with Spanners and a Tool Piece

Shirley Wellard Cassette Loading Device

1950

Five flint tools for turning shale and one "Kimmeridge penny" of shale

Victor machine cutting tool holder

Selection of spectacle-maker's tools

1801-1820

4 Punches, 7 Seaming Tools

Metal edge-plane

1920-1960

Siren disc

1876-1925

Ornamental Turning Tools

A processional mining tool

A processional mining tool

Bronze chisel

circa 1370 BCE

Plasterer's moulding tool, Japanese

1845-1874

A processional mining tool

A processional mining tool

Tool for cleaning pistol barrels

Tools and components used in rabbit ear chamber research

1950-1980

Tools used in mouse chamber research

1940-1950

Hypolet Automatic Lancet Device by Hypoguard (UK) Ltd.

1992

Novopen insulin injection device

1986

Five warding tools

Five magnetron anode block (rising-sun configuration) hobbing tools

One Touch complete blood glucose monitoring kit by Lifescan Inc.

1990

Collection of iron hand-made agricultural implements

Engraving Tool Grinder used by Monotype Corporation

Winding splaying tool

Turnkey, coal mining. C.1960

Turn key, coal mining.

Glucotrend (TM) soft test system

1999

Box of gauge block tools made by Bob Watkins

circa 1965

Silver lady's companion composed of a thimble, bobbin, patch-box, vinaigrette and needle case, engraved decoration possibly late 18th century

1771-1800
Collection of carriage painter's brushes and tools, annotated, in wall-mounted glazed cherry-wood case, North Eastern Railway York Carriage Works, c1910.

Coach painter's brushes and tools

1900-1935
Scissors, very elaborate exhibition piece, steel with gilt brass handle in form of a dagger, by John Moseley and Son, London, 1850-1900

Scissors, elaborate exhibition piece, steel with gilt brass handle in form of a dagger, 1850-1900

1851-1900
8 'swage' tools (some paired) probably associated with drawbench /7

Eight 'Swage' Tools

Four High Speed Alloy Steel (HSS) tools, by Edgar Allen and Co. Ltd., Attercliffe, Sheffield and Tinsley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 1960

Four High Speed Alloy Steel (HSS) tools

Handbag makers tools and equipment: singer industrial sewing machine;frister Rossmann sewing machine; handbag fittings and patterns; samples of animal skin and other materials used in handbag making; samples of finished handbags including a fully finished crocodile skin "Gladstone"; box of hand tools; workbench with special cut outs' and blocks for use in handbag making; 2 stools

Handbag makers tools and equipment

1 pair of large bench shears, 2 pairs of curved snips and 2 pairs of straight snips from S C Hammond sheet metal workshop

1 pair of bench shears, 2 curved snips, 2 straight snips

Press tools and materials for making artificial flowers, early 20th century

Press tools and materials for making artificial flowers

1900-1930
One pair of folding bars and one pair of rolls from S C Hammond collection of metal working tools.

One pair of folding bars and one pair of rolls

Chipping tool; Two hammer stones; one axe used as a hammer; one fabricator

Chipping tool and hammer stones

Batch of 6 surgical instruments, Empire made for Rocket of London tested by British Standards Institution and the Ministry of Health, contains two pairs of scissors, ( dismembered), one pair of forceps (dismembered), two surgical hooks and one pair of dissecting forceps, stainless steel, c. 1969

Batch of 6 surgical instruments

Tools for deep-hole boring: gisholt cutter; spade bit; three-quarter solid boring tool; solid boring tool (1963)); trepanning tool (1963)

Tools for deep-hole boring

Device for adjusting iris of Leica lens (code Elmar) when used on an enlarger, c 1935.

Device for adjusting iris of Leica 'Elmar' lens, c 1935

1930-1940
Wallpaper printing tools and equipment (see separate list)

Wallpaper printing tools and equipment

Five Japanese plasterers moulding tools, middle 19th century, acquired from the International Exhibition, London, 1874

Five Japanese plasterers moulding tools

1845-1874
Toolbox containing 43 tools made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Toolbox containing tools

circa 1965