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Brass disc with wooden disc screwed to one side with wooden rod attached; pieces of copper leaf attached to end of rod

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Carved ivory pendant, in the form of two human figures, back to back, with a double hook below. Given to Macgregor in Namosi, a village in Viti Levu, Fiji and described by him as a 'Rat-safe' (see Museum's 'Slip Catalogue). Hunt (1981):…

Goblet. Narrow, fluted glass goblet with a thick stem, engraved with an inscription and a man riding a horse.
Glass goblet. The sides of the wine glass are etched with the words 'The Glorious Memory of King William', a figure on horseback, and 'Boyne 1st July 1690'. It was made in two parts, with a domed, inverted base and a folded foot and the pontil mark…

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glass bowl with hole in the top and a brass connector at the bottom

a rotating plaster globe with a brass axis support and movable brass longitude gauge, chalk marked 'us' (unserviceable?).

straight walled glass vessel with slight shoulder, silvered half way up the glass and has a tin band with thumb screw as an electrical contact. A brass rod terminated in solid copper wire filaments is suspended from a three armed cap. Perhaps an…
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