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Coin amulet to protect against smallpox

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

300-1450 CE

Tragacanth gum in specimen jar

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1860-1920

Siliceous pebbles suitable for assaying gold, Turkey

Metallurgy

1978-1995

Natural pebble touchstone from Izmir, western Turkey, 1986

Metallurgy

1986

Bunch of knotted fibre used for ritual washing of the dead

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1901-1929

Touchstone purchased in the bazaar, Istanbul, 1987

Metallurgy

1987

Siliceous pebble suitable for gold assaying purposes, Turkey, 1986

Metallurgy

1986

Rectangular touchstone from Izmir, western Turkey, 1986

Metallurgy

1986

Touchstone from Czechoslovakia, 1978

Metallurgy

1978

Bronze divination bowl, Turkey, 1451

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1451

Tobacco pipe stem

Smoking

1831-1900

Piece of stem or socket incised with geometrical decoration

Smoking

1831-1900

Tobacco pipe stem with mouthpiece and Islamic style decoration

Smoking

1801-1900

Turkish brass commercial weight, 1800-1899

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899

Turkish wooden linear measure

Weighing & Measuring

1700-1799

Tobacco pipe bowl with stem and socket

Smoking

1851-1900

Turkish brass commercial weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1899

Green glaze one handle dish, Turkish

Lighting

1801-1900

Turkish wooden linear measure

Weighing & Measuring

1700-1799

Turkish Fleet in the Dardanelles

Photographs

August 1911

Albarello vase, Turkish, C17 or C18, blue and whit

Medical Ceramic-ware

1601-1800

Incisedly decorated tobacco pipe with cauldron-shaped bowl only

Smoking

1850-1920

Mouthpiece of hookah pipe

Smoking

1851-1900

Rectangular window panel, marble fretted with geometric design, arabesque style

Asian Medicine

1401-1700

Turkish brass commercial weights

Weighing & Measuring

1700-1799

Glass bottle, long narrow neck

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1301-1900 CE

Bowl shaped window pane, thought to be from Turkey

Glass Technology

c. 1920

Amulet pendant

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1900-1930

Bowl shaped window pane, thought to be from Turkey

Glass Technology

c. 1920

Food warmer

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1851-1920

Tobacco pipes with bowls and stems

Smoking

1890-1925

Large glass jar, contains gum tragacanth from Turkey

Specimen jar containing gum tragacanth

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1930

Two bowl shaped window panes, thought to be from Turkey, made in style of early crown glass windows, c. 1920

Bowl-shaped window pane, c 1920.

Glass Technology

1920

Glass bead eye in coloured glasses, amulet against evil eye, from Turkey, 1880-1914 (see note).

Glass bead eye in coloured glasses, amulet against

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1914

Long cylindrical pottery tobacco pipe with hinged brass bowl cover and small stem socket at base, stem missing, Turkish(?), 1871-1910

Long cylindrical tobacco pipe

Smoking

1871-1910

Turkish gravestone

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1500-1930

Earthenware Sassanian feeding cup, Turkish, allegedly 8th century

Earthenware feeding cup

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

701-800

Blood donor badge, Turkey. Displayed on a gold-coloured triangle backing.

Blood donor badge, Turkey

Public Health & Hygiene

Replica casts of 4 pieces of wooden type used by the Uigar Turks, 1295-1305. Taken from specimens in the Metropolitan Museum, New York

Replica casts of Turkish wooden type, 1295-1305

Printing & Writing

1295-1305 (originally)

Lead wall panel, oval shaped thick rim, decorated in the centre with a head surrounded by sunburst, possibly Byzantine, made in turkey (?) 601 CE - 1200

Wall panel

Asian Medicine

601 CE-1200

Terracotta tobacco pipe, natural twig stem, Turkish, 1880-1920

Tobacco pipe with natural twig stem

Smoking

1880-1920

Circular clear glass jar with lid. Contains two large lumps of opium gum. Labelled 'GUM. OPII OPT. TURC., J.F. Macfarlan and Co., Edinburgh and London'.

jar; controlled drug; opium

Medical Glass-ware

Rectangular white cotton flag, with red crescent sewn on both sides, made in Turkey(?), 1918-1919

Rectangular white cotton flag, with red crescent sewn on both sides

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1918-1919

Silver medal with ribbon, Sardinian issue of Turkish medal (Crimea), awarded to British troops and her other allies, minature medal also, artist unknown, medals Turkish, 1856-1857

Silver medal with ribbon, Sardinian issue of Turki

Wellcome Medals

1856-1856

Stem cherrywood, from Turkish chibouque, long length of straight cherry with green cord attached, Turkish, 1840-1925; "a" flimsy states that this object had an "amber mouthpiece" ; only the stem of cherrywood was found in December 1980

Stem from Turkish chibouque

Asian Medicine

1840-1925

Silver star shaped medal and silk ribbon Order of the Medjidie (?) awarded to Dr. Tice, artist unknown, medal Turkish, 1856

Silver star shaped medal and silk ribbon Order of

Wellcome Medals

1856

Two green glass mouthpiece with narrow cane stems, mouthpieces in two part with interlinking brass band, Turkish(?), 1851-1900

Mouthpieces with stems

Smoking

1851-1900