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23 Jan

FINE 18TH CENTURY EBONY QUADRANT DATED 1781 BY COLE LONDON

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SHIPPING BY FEDEX, UPS, ETC. FULLY TRACKED.  Contact Email:   [email protected] IVORY EXEMPTION NUMBER. AUVV32P9 Read More...
19 Jan

BRISSE BLOND TORTOISE SHELL FAN WITH SINGLE DRAW SPYGLASS, IN GOOD WORKING COND. C1840

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NO SPLITS, NOTHING BROKEN, NO REPAIRS. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE EXAMPLE , WITH PAINTED FLORETS,  6 IN.LONG CLOSED   Read More...
16 Jan

Boxwood ceremonial ship launching mallet for P.S. Pharos, 1874.

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A carved boxwood and brass ceremonial ship launching mallet for the P.S. Pharos. Dated 2nd Feb 1874. Length: 31.5 cm. Width: 14.5 cm. P.S. Pharos, Iron Twin-Funnell Paddle steamer, Lighthouse tender. Built by Napier & Sons, Glasgow, for the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses. Provenance: Stevenson family, by descent. The Commissioners of Northern Light Houses most famous engineer was Robert Stevenson, whose sons David, Alan, and Thomas followed their father into the profession. The Stevenson dynasty built the majority of the Northern lights, in some Read More...
16 Jan

Three Stylus Driven Calculators

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“The Golden Gem”- serial number 30005, marked “Pat. Mar. 1-04-Mar 2-06 Mar 19-07” and “Automatic Adding Machine Co. New York, USA -no stylus In good working order The Standard Desk Calculimeter,marked on side “PAT DEC 17’01-in reasoble condition, some of the dials a bit sticky-quite an uncommon calculator-American-no stylus The ‘Brical’ English money adding calculator in good condition in original case with stylus   Read More...
12 Jan

six draw nickel silver telescope – Ross.

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A good pocket telescope by ‘Ross, London’ constructed in nickel silver with a baleen covered barrel. The draws operate nice and smoothly. The telescope measures 4.75″ long when closed and 20″ fully open. Excellent condition. Damage free. Contained in original leather case. Read More...
12 Jan

Rare Short Form of Hannyngton’s Extended Slide Rule

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Short form of Hannyngton’s Slide Rule marked ‘Designed by Major General Hannyngton’ ‘Shop Rule’ and for the maker ‘Aston & Mander 1917 Ltd Makers London’-in good clean condition in original Case  Read More...
12 Jan

An Example of very rare Fearnley Universal Calculator

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An example of a very rare Fearnley Patent Universal calculator, marked ‘By Royal Letters Patent’-in original mahogany case. Modus operandi is not clear although the Science Museum example describes its use by the Observatory of Cambridge University. There are no moving parts or cursor-The calculator is rather grubby as shown and the surface is covered throughout with uneven varnish.   Read More...
22 Dec

Three draw pocket telescope with pancratic eyepiece – Braham.

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This three draw brass telescope has a leather covered barrel and measures 5.5 inches long pulling out to 15″. It is signed ‘Braham, Bristol’. John Braham worked at various addresses in Bristol from 1828 – 1838. This 3 draw has a ‘hidden’ pancratic tube / eye-piece. If the user partially unscrews the eye-piece a concealed pancratic eye-piece can be accessed (fully retractable). This tube is engraved, ‘Pancratic Eye Tube’ and has various magnification engravings from 15 – 35 x. Very clean and Read More...
22 Dec

Seven draw telescope – Myers, London.

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Signed on the flat of the eye-piece, ‘Myers, London’, the telescope measures 22″ and 4.75″ closed. It has a lens cap and a dust slider to the eye-piece. Small dent to the barrel. Read More...
21 Dec

three draw telescope with engraved ‘scale of minutes’.

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A nickel silver three draw telescope with a dark, mahogany barrel, unsigned, but the 2nd and 3rd draw tubes engraved with a scales of small increments and ‘Scale of minutes’. It was the Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster who invented the telescope for measuring Angles and Minutes and had a joint patent with instrument maker William Harris to produce / sell such a telescopes in May 1811. Brewster’s original design of this type of telescope was engraved, ‘Scale of minutes divided Read More...
20 Dec

Museum Miniature surveying sextant Signed Nairne and Blunt C.1785

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Rare Miniature surveying sextant constructed in lacquered brass Signed Nairne and Blunt across the T-bar . Diagonal gilet scale divided to 130 degres, vernier with fine screw adjustment , two mirrors, six shades, threaded mounting tube, with threaded wooden handle behind. Lens of mounting tube missing. Good condition. Nairne and Blunt Edward & Thomas  shop in 20 Cornhill Fronting the Royal Exchange  London in 1783.   Read More...
20 Dec

Universal Microscope by R & J Beck of London.

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Universal Microscope by R & J Beck of London, 1867. Serial number: 4757. Circular base marked: UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE – R & J BECK LONDON In original fitted case with brass handle: H: 33.5 cm.   Literature:  Richard Beck’s The Achromatic Microscope, 1865.    For a similar Universal Microscope by Smith, Beck & Beck see the collections of: The Science Museum, London. (Sir Henry Wellcome’s Museum Collection) Object number: A18435.  Billings Microscope Collection at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington DC. The Golub Collection, University of California, Berkeley. Read More...
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