Bronze bull weight, Egyptian, c 1500 BC.

Bronze weights, 16th century.

28lb avoirdupois weight, 1558-1582.

Half-gallon standard, 1893.

Ancient Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, Italy, 79 AD.

'The Standard of Weights and Measures in the Exchequer', (c 1746).

Red ware pottery flask, Syrian, 1500-1100 BC.

Bramah sawing machine, c 1788.

Volta pistol, posibly late 18th Century.

Volta pistol, posibly late 18th Century.

Pottery spittoon, posibly Syrian, 11th-12th century.

Iron chamber clock, probably German, 16th century.