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Mechanical Music & Scientific Instruments
Wednesday 28 April 2010
Knightsbridge
Entries now invited for our auction of Mechanical Music & Scientific
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To arrange a free and confidential auction valuation or
for further advice on buying or selling at auction, please contact:
Jon Baddeley
scientific@bonhams.com
+44 (0) 8700 273 624
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The sales of Scientific Instruments include an array of significant objects
and our auctions regularly include historically significant artefacts. In 2007
Bonhams sold an important 14th century brass astrolabe quadrant for £138,000.
We are looking to consign navigational, surveying and drawing instruments
such as globes, astrolabes, telescopes, compasses, dials, binoculars, theodolites,
rules, and scientific and medical instruments such as microscopes, phrenology
heads, apothecary chests, dental instruments and anatomical models.
Further information |
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Previously Sold Auction
Highlights
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The 'Block III' aeroplane missile guiding television monitoring system, secretly manufactured by RCA for use during WWII, 1944-45
Sold for £36,000 |
A pair of A good J & W Newton 6-inch celestial globe, English, circa 1825
Sold for £6,240
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A highly important brass astrolabe quadrant or quadrans novus
Sold for £138,000 |
An extremely rare John Cuthbert brass reflecting microscope No.35, English, circa 1830
Sold for £19,200 |
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