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Brass telescope from spectrometer table. Objective can extend out.

Clear plastic box with black metal trim. Inside can be seen the workings including two mirrors. On side there is three controls, one with a single unit scale from 0 to 10; fine to coarse. Three sockets, labelled as A.C. Mains, Ext. Recorder, D.B.…

cardboard box of 6 metal adapters for the spekker absorptiometer. Also in box is an empty tin, with the words "made in Scotland, 2oz net" on the base.

Mercury Vapour lamp for the Hilger Spekker Absorptiometer, H760301.

Power cable for Hilger Spekker absorptiometer, H760301, 3 Amp plug and adapter.

Sphinx carved in limestone.

Sphinx, in limestone, originally coloured (traces of pigment visible). Underneath centre of figure is a double head of Bes. Sacred animals are sculptured on forelegs, head and shoulders.

a test tube with rubber bung filled with grass stems, possibly spills for burning to detect presence of gasses

Old label "SPINDLE USE D BY LENGUA INDIANS. CHACO, PARAGUAY". With gourd as whorl for spindle for spinning wool, in wood. Presented by Dr. J.W. Lindsay, Paraguay, 1909. There are some remains of wool on the spindle.

Spindle whorl, decorated with floral and geometric designs, and figures of birds, in boxwood. Used in spinning.