Brionvega RR 126 Radiophonograph Design Castiglioni 1960s

Southern Italy, 1960s

Banjo six-string wooden guitar, inlaid decoration depicting a dancer with a pair of musicians and a Greek key.

Italy, 1950s

Bakelite accordion 34 keys and 75 bass with leather strap. Metal manufacturer's mark on the front.

Italy, first half of the twentieth century

Scandalli 96 Bass Accordion. Contemporary case.

England, Late XIX-Early XX Century

Salom & Co. Edinburgh & London Weather Station consisting of a clock, barometer and central barograph above the thermometer, all contained in a walnut case. Swing-open front door.

England, Late XIX Century

Accessories for R. & J. Beck binocular compound microscope. The special wooden container shows the lack of some parts.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Planetarium consisting of a gilded brass base, equipped with seven brass arms, on which the wooden planets are grafted, accompanied by their satellites; the larger solar globe is in ivory. The planetarium can be placed in the first half of the nineteenth century, that is, before the discovery of Neptune (1846) and its identification as the eighth planet.

Italy, Early XX Century

Early 20th century brass telescope diopter. Alidade composed of a flat rod, called rule, at the ends of which two pinnulae rise hinged; equipped with metric scale, compass, spirit level and distance metric collimator telescope.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Telescope diopter made of brass, composed of a movable graduated ruler, small compass with wind rose on the base, distance collimator telescope, vertical graduated circle and spirit level placed on the top of the telescope.

Italy, Mid XX Century ca

Galloni Dental Technician Parallelometer.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Sextant with brass frame, vernier with adjusting screw and microscope for reading, three coloured filters for the fixed mirror, four for the mobile mirror. Marked "P. & G. Mattei Cardiff".

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Sextant with brass frame, vernier with adjusting screw and microscope for reading, three coloured filters for the fixed mirror, four for the mobile mirror. Marked "P. & G. Mattei Cardiff".

Fuller's Spiral Slide Rule

Fuller's cylindrical slide rule. It consists of an outer wooden cylinder that slides up and down and rotates, covered with paper marked with a graduated spiral logarithmic scale; inside is a longer wooden cylinder, also covered with paper marked with decimal tables. A brass index is screwed to the top of the neck, a second, longer brass index is screwed to the mahogany base and marked with a scale. The outer sliding cylinder is marked near the top: “FULLERS SPIRAL SLIDE RULE”; at the bottom it's marked: “ENTD. STATS. HALL / STANLEY, Maker, LONDON". The upper part of the long brass index is engraved: 1791 (/) 1903, for which it can be assumed (as for another similar specimen, preserved at the National Museum of American History) that the first is the serial number, while the second the year of completion. George Fuller, professor of civil engineering at Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, patented this instrument in 1878; the Stanley firm produced about 14,000 Fuller spiral slide rules in nearly a hundred years.