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Set of scales, with brass pans and brass weights, in a wooden box. Used by Rev Alexander John Forsyth for weighing the ingredients used to make a detonating powder in 1805-6. Forsyth invented the percussion lock for fire arms, and his experiments…

IDL Scaler 1800, 4 Push Button Switches: Start, Stop, Reset, Test; 5 Dekatrons; Type: 1800C, Serial No. 178, a range of inputs

A scale expansion unit for the Grubb Parson Spectrophotometer. 3 dials, 2 ranging from 1 to 10 and the other from 1 to 5 in single divisions. 2 cables. In cardboard box with an assortment of screws, washers and cogs. On unit in white lettering "Grubb…

Satchel in native cord , dyed with native dye. Worn by Lengua Indians behind small of back with string tied in front. Old label: "SATCHEL USED BY LENHUA INDIANS. CHACO, PARAGUAY". Satchel in native cord , dyed with native dye. Worn by Lengua Indians…

Loom-woven beaded sash with background of white beads, and black beads in a geometric 'H'-like motif which appears nine times. The motifs are placed with the long sides of the ‘H’-es running parallel to the length of the sash. The sash is 26 beads…

Red cloth sash edged with a single row of white beads, a thin strip of navy and another single row of white beads. A distinctive element of the sash is a repetitive 'saw-tooth' white three-bead triangular pattern.

(loom?)-woven belt. Red wool warp and tan weft. There is one tan warp (one strand of a double warp) between beads 6/7 (or 8/9 and 9/10 when counted from the other side)
The majority of the belt has a double warp (one over and one under the weft) –…

A narrow beaded sash in red, with two thin strips of blue between the two rows of edge beads on the front.
The centre of the sash has a pattern of spaced sets of four beads on a red background, all laid with the perforation parallel to the length of…

A finger woven sash, warp-face, in brown, red/dark orange, beige and dull gold, with very long fringes and a pattern of elongated diamonds. The outer gold lines in the pattern have a very subtle stripe (perpendicular to the length of the sash)…