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Dirks. Three steel blades about a foot long with sheaths, left to right: blade with wooden handle finely decorated with carved knotwork and brass studs with a leather and brass sheath containing a small knife, double edged blade with horn handle and cross-guard with tiny brass human heads on the ends with a leather sheath decorated with dots and hearts, thick blade with wooden handle and leather sheath decorated with lines, knotwork and a bearded face.

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Instrument in a group of demonstration accessories believed to be mostly Leybold items; wooden disc with metal peg attached

one tall tube with a ring anode to allow the cathode rays (electrons) to pass through; presumed to have been acquired as a set with five others

One of two tubes have a spiral glass feature; presumed to have been acquired as a set with five others

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twin brass rods hinged at one end fitted on a glass insulating rod and wooden handle. Each rod terminates in a brass sphere; for removal of charge from electrostatically charged spheres. Likely to be one of Copland's "Discharging rod, jointed, glass…

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IDL amplifier discriminator "Amplifier-selector 1830". 3 dials: input, discriminator bias, channel width; voltmeter 0 - 30 V.by Isotopes Development Ltd model 1830A no. 113. For nucler counting. Blue crackle metal case.

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Round dish used as a hanging decoration ('hoel'). Decoration: woman in centre, long dress, floral design, (black) drawing, other colours: white, brown, green, yellow.

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Tripod dish in grey pottery. Very characteristic of Zapotecan culture.

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