Domestic lock stitch sewing machine, treadle powered with table, drawers and wooden lid; a copy of the Singer 'New Family' style, 1900-1910 Domestic lock stitch sewing machine 1900-1910
Vibrating shuttle lockstitch Frister and Rossmann Sewing Machine with treadle, c. 1932, complete with accessories of hemmer, tucker and ruffler, etc., in a painted tin box. Vibrating shuttle lockstitch Frister and Rossmann Sewing Machine with treadle 1932
Book of Gold Leaf, North Eastern Railway, small booklet containing sheets of gold leaf, stamped "Warranted English Gold Leaf". Dimensions: 3 3/4"x3 1/2" Book of gold leaf, North Eastern Railway
Royal Photographic Society Bronze Commemorative Medal in presentation case. Awarded 1900 for Panoram Kodak camera. Bust of Prince Albert in releif on obverse; Apollo in two-horse charioot riding through clouds on reverse. In presentation case, red leather with gold decoration and inscription 'ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY', lined with black velvet and white silk, stamped with maker in gold. Royal Photographic Society Bronze Commemorative Medal in presentation case 1900
Gold leaf electroscope made by J. Newman, 122 Regent Street, London Gold leaf electroscope made by J. Newman 1828-1857
Cachet filling machine, used to fill rice paper cachets with medication, including tamper, mould, wooden accessories, metal rinks, silk sieve, gold leaf sheets and rice paper cachet, 1850-1900 Cachet filling machine 1850-1900
Musical clock album 45 x 23cm approx. Front has 3 apertures - one for cabinet and two for carte de visite photographs. Embossed with a leaf and berry design. Gold leaf pattern round the edges. 11 pages cut for cabinet photographs and two for carte de visites. Pages printed in colour with the life story of Queen Victoria. Extension at top of the back cover carries clock and musical box. Extension outlined with shell pattern in gold leaf. Empty - album does not contain any photographs. Photograph album with built in clock and musical box
Tinted Cartes-de-Visites of Royal Family in a leather acordion-style case and box, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 1860s. Part of Rickett's collection. Photographs of 'The Queen HRH The Prince Consort', 'The Queen HRH Princess Beatrice', 'The Queen', 'HRH The Prince Consort', 'HRH The Princess Fredercik William of Prussia', 'HRH The Prince of Wales HRH Princess Alice', 'HRH The Prince of Wales', 'HRH Prince Alfred', 'HRH Princess Helena HRH Princess Louisa', 'HRH Princess Helena', 'HRH Princess Louisa', 'HRH Prince Arthur HRH Leopold', 'HRH Prince Arthur', HRH Princess Beatrice'. Tinted Cartes-de-Visites of Royal Family in Leather Case 1860-1869
Photograph album 21 x 26cm with black leather back. Front forms a frame of black lacquered wood round an albumen print of an angel flying with a child in her arms. Gold leaf around the inside of frame with brass clasp. Contains leaves for carte de visite with only the front page for cabinet photographs. Old catalogue states that the picture come from an engraving by W. von Kaulbach. Funereal photograph album
Photograph album 23 x 15cm for 100 carte de visite photographs. Both front and back covered with mother of pearl. Rectangular and diamond pattern outlined front and back with darker shell (probably abalone shell). Two metal clasp, one is broken. With brown leather spine with gold leaf pattern. Gold leaf design around carte frames. photograph album for carte de visite pictures
Five early Thaumotropes, in original box. With two display devices, probably built by Science Museum workshops. Thaumotrope circa 1824