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Wooden stethoscope, turned fruit wood.

19th century stethoscope, 17.5 cm long. The large end 6.5 cm diameter. No cracks / damage. Read More...

Wooden box microscope slides ca 1890

Wooden box containing 6 trays each with 6 microscope slides , so in otaal 36 slides ca 1890.From different makers and originsDimensions box 21 X 12 X 5 cm .Price includes good packaging and registered mail.     Read More...

Rare silver example of the “new pair of pocket compasses” invented by Jones, c. 1800

A very rare and early example in silver of the innovative and also quite rare of “the new pair of pocket compasses containing the ink and pencil points in its two legs”. William and Samuel Jones advertised the introduction of this new pockect, compact and mutliple pair of dividers in 1797 and first illustated it in the new edition of the George Adams’s Geometrical and Graphical Essays in 1823. The present example is circa 1800-1810 of early production.   The present innovative pair Read More...

LARGE EARLY 17TH CENTURY BRASS SECTOR

SHIPPING BY FEDEX, UPS, DHL, ETC. FULLY TRACKED.  Contact Email:  [email protected] Read More...

PRISMATIC MILITARY MARCHING COMPASS 1917

POSTAGE ARRANGED, FULLY TRACKED.  Contact Email:  [email protected] Read More...

RARE SWISS ARMY KNIFE ELECTRIC RETAIL DISPLAY AUTOMATON BY VICTORINOX

For sale, a rare Swiss army knife retail display by Victorinox. This electric powered shop window display automaton was widely distributed across Europe from the 1950’s onwards by Victorinox to advertise the sale of their world famous Swiss Army Knives. Still in business today, the company was founded in 1884 by the cutler, Karl Elsner in Ibach-Schwyz and the origins of the company name derive from the early support lent to him by his mother Victoria. Founding the Association of Swiss Read More...

Cary’s cattle gauge

An example of Cary’s cattle Gauge, address 181 Strand. For calculating approximate weight given length in feet , weight in stones and girth in feet. Boxwood in good condition Read More...

Three card Slide Rules

A card slide rule for horse power calculations, advertising Lambeth cotton rope, ink owners signature. Fuel Cost calculator published by Meldrum Brothers and advertising “The Meldrum Forced Draught furnace.” ink signed for owner. The Lambeth Cotton Driving Rope Horse Power Calculator, ink signed for owner. Reverse has hints on designing a rope drive. All three in overall good condition but slightly grubby through age. In an original but scruffy leather pouch. Read More...

Hudson’s Pump Duty Computing Scale

An unusual and rare complex slide rule for Pump duty calculations, in celluloid. Original case. Read More...

Hudson’s Shaft Beam & Girder Strength Scale

An unusual and rare complex slide rule for calculations relating to beam and girder strengths. In original case with instructions. Made of celluloid. Read More...

Unusual Boxwood Slide Rule “Collins Milk Scale”

Collins Milk Scale, a boxwood slide rule made by Brady and Martin, Newcastle-on -Tyne, inked owners name. Scales for temperature, Lactometer reading for specific gravity and a Gerber scale (primary and historic chemical test to determine fat content} Read More...

SOLD – Antique Ross-Zentmayer No. 1 Binocular Brass Microscope #5351 – c1884, Cased

Offered for sale and a rare find – an Andrew Ross-Zentmayer No.1, serial number 5351 of immense size.The foot engraved “Ross London 5351” with: – Jackson-Lister type limb design– Wenham binocular with mechanical draw-tubes– RMS objectives– helical-cut coarse focus– vernier screw/lever fine focus– rotating mechanical stage with x/y controls and external 360 degree scale– swinging sub-stage for oblique illumination– sub-stage accessories that locate into a dovetail recess– large 3 inch plano-concave reflector showing some age and still perfectly functional And overall, Read More...