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An early Danish ivory Bakelite and painted metal table telephone,Circa 1908,With Kjobenhavns stamped handset, gilt fittings, scroll cradle through...

Two early Danish telephones:White painted metal table phone with white Bakelite handle receiver, scroll cradle, dial and call button; and an incom...

A French Marty table telephone,With nickel-plated brass and ebonised handset, matching Ader listening earpiece, scrolled cradle, on cleated mahoga...

A German Long-Distance call wall telephone,circa 1911,with rare High-Current microphone with nickel-plated finish, matching earpiece, in ebonised ...

An early Steerhorn fork-cradle wall telephone,With twin gilt bells above microphone, magneto, connection posts to polished mahogany body.

An early French Enrielult type 9 wall telephone,With Ader receiver, separate listening earpiece, exposed connection board, full polished wood cent...

A large and early Ericsson wall telephone,Circa 1900, Fully converted, with nickel and black Bakelite handset on scrolled cradle, exposed twin bel...

A superb ‘Eiffel Tower’ skeleton table telephone,Circa 1900,With two-way button handset, magneto, twin bells and ebonite connection block, suspend...

A very scarce Bailleux telephone wall cabinet,French, very early 1900s,No. 1508, with shield-form nickel-plated microphone, matching receiver, twi...

A very rare and important British Western Electric combination table telephone,Circa 1885, With nickel-plated microphone on long-reach mount and f...

A pair of painted spelter Art Noveau figures – Le Commerce et Le Travail,French, circa 1910,The reaching standing figures, each clasping flaming s...

A large pair of painted spelter Art Noveau figures - Le Telephoné et Le Telegraph,French, circa 1910,With triumphant Telegraph clasping his insula...

Four late 19th century Morse keys,Unmarked, large example with change-over switch and five taps; wooden base with bulb holder; one with raised ebo...

Four early 20th century Morse keys,Unmarked, one with ebonite panel in mahogany base; and three all-wood bases with brass fittings. (4)

Morse code training/use equipment:Two L.M.R. training key boards with buzzers; a single key on iron base; Ever Ready signal lamp with key to top; ...

Railwayana – a converted line-clear signal telegraph,With Train Entered Station, Line Clear and Line Blocked segment panel, centre now with eight-...

Early Galvanometers:An Ayrton-Mather, supplied by Griffin, huge lacquered brass body, in fitted mahogany case; a Siemens Bros example; and a GPO t...

A large stock ticker, by the Automatic Telephone & Electric Company Ltd.,Circa 1910, With massive brass plates, bevelled glass top and sides, tape...

A late 19th century French Telegraph Stock Ticker in case,Stamped Téléphones Le Las, 131 Rue de Vangirand, Paris,No. 5114, with full brass four-pi...

A late 19th century stock ticker,Modified, with an add-on electric motor and internal lamp (easily removeable), exposed relays, clockwork drive fo...

A telegraph ticker-tape reserve bank,Late 19th century, In blond oak, lacquered brass fittings and pulleys, blacked metal spool; a Telegraph Works...

A good coin-operated ‘Butler’s View’ stereo-viewer console, Circa 1900, On 1d. play, with carousel of 15 stereo cards of a scantily dressed lady b...

An electric coin-operated table/bar stereo-viewer,Circa 1930 onwards, with crank-wind spring motor, vertical slide coin slot for electric-tripped ...

Automatic Pleasures – The History of the Coin Machine, Nic Costa, First Edition, 1988,Signed by the author, clean condition, with dust jacket.

A late 19th century table carousel stereo viewer with cards, Circa 1890, with a selection of solo and ruins, beach, exhibition and nude groups tot...

A 19th century table carousel stereo viewer,Circa 1880, 2-inch stereoscopic slide format, with carousel holding 50 slides, adjustment knobs for wi...

A dual-view table stereo viewer,Late 19th century,The rotating carousel fitted with 72 stereo cards of coloured and non-coloured landscapes, portr...

A collection of handheld stereo-viewers and cards:An Underwood & Underwood metal hooded viewer; a pair of all-wood viewers; a selection of late 19...

A Brewster’s pattern burr-yew veneered hand-held Stereo Viewer, Late 19th Century,Together with seventy-six stereo cards of German, Swiss, French ...

A Stereographascope mono/stereo combination viewer,Circa 1860, with large mono lens above twin eyepieces (one missing), internal bleached boxwood ...

Sunbeam Tours – a boxed library set of stereo cards,Book titles of Rome, Switzerland, London Zoo, London I, and Natural History, each with introdu...

The moving image and the magic lantern:A Chromatropic slide; slide magazine for a lantern; a small stack of 3.1/2-inch lantern slides, all coloure...

A Negretti & Zambra travelling microscope/cathetometer,With black painted case iron bedplate, fine Vernier scale, feedscrew adjustment and brass f...

A good Charles Perry monocular laboratory microscope,Circa 1930, No. 4789,With two oculars and three objectives on carousel, rack and pinion focus...

A drum compound monocular microscope, Mid 19th Century,Full brass body, plano mirror, four objectives, tweezers, in fitted mahogany case.

A small late 19th century drum microscope,With slide focussing, tilt mirror, in fitted case with four period slides; and a box containing several ...

A monocular microscope, by James Swift & Son, London,No. 1451, late 19th century,In lacquered brass with black finished base, with single ocular, ...

A monocular microscope, by Lawrence & Mayo,Early 20th century,With two oculars, one objective, triangle-rack focussing, plano mirror, brass fittin...

Late 19th century microscope and optical accessories:A Jules-Vogel magic lantern lens housing; lamp house window; eyepiece; light concave mirror; ...

A direct-vision compound Spectroscope, by A. Hilger, London, Circa 1880, Signed, with blued steel slit micrometer, drum scale adjustment, lacquere...

A Simmance Flicker Photometer, by A. Wright Co.,Circa 1910, With revolving paradualnistic white disc from spring motor, twin cross-hair viewers an...

A pigeon-racing recording clock,Circa 1920, No. 79157,With keyed and secure recording movement, dial with typical twin subsidiaries, paper tape in...

A mid-19th century Elliott ivory sector,Circa 1860, with L S and C vanishing-point sub-scales, S T and T N scales to verso, additional inches to t...

A good small chemist’s balance,Circa 1880, with brass support, steel balance arm and twin ground glass dishes, on light oak drawer base containing...

A mid-19th century French shop counter balance,Circa 1860, with twin brass dishes, rise-and-fall vertical indicator window, marble top on canted c...

A Matrix shorthand Braille typewriter, model G,Circa 1930, No. 2016, With the six keys plus space key, horizontal type feeder, braille folding tap...

A fine ‘Regent’ Negretti & Zambra recording barograph,Early 20th century,With 9-disc pressure detector, 8-day drum movement, pressure arc scale wi...

An early 20th century copper-cased barograph,Circa 1910, with helical steel receiver to needle recorder, ink dip, and eight-day drum movement, on ...

Military scientific instruments:Mid 20th century,An airspeed scale dial, for knots and MPH ratios, cased; a A.M. medium Landing Compass, cased; an...

An Soniscope MK II Electronic Stethoscope, by Pye,Mid 20th century, No. 1629, with rods, acoustic control board and earpieces, in fitted case with...

A good 3-inch refracting telescope-on-stand, by Dollond,Mid-19th Century, signed Dollond, London,with tapered mahogany tube, rack and pinion focus...

A 2.1/2-inch Day-Or-Night refracting telescope, by Dollond, London, Late 19th Century,with single draw signed Dollond, London, eyepiece slide and ...

A Philips 10-inch table terrestrial globe on stand,Mid 20th century, with 12 gores, applied 0-degree longitude, on black Bakelite stand with Miles...

A late 19th century 3KV induction coil,With massive dual section wax-clad coil with ebonite centre ring and caps, knurled brass interrupter, spark...

Electricity machines – for nervous and other diseases:Circa 1910, a magneto model, with horseshoe magnet and coil, label to lid; and an induction ...

Early medical induction electricity machines:Late 19th century,A 1KV coil on mahogany base; another by Schall & Sons in lift-lid case; a variable-...

Two small induction electricity machines,Early 20th century,First with pull-down coil, twin wooden grip prods, twin batteries in light mahogany ca...

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