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Tools, English?, c. 1700?
Object is on display.
Inventory Number:	30120
Object Type:
Place Created:	England United Kingdom Europe
Accession Number:	1925-43
Brief Description:	A group of tools including the "... Small pr of Handvice & a Gun Tooll" which Thomas Wright noted in 1731, in his catalogue of the Orrery Collection. Steel and wood. English? Unsigned and undated; c.1700?.
Primary Inscriptions:
Provenance:	Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
Collection Group:	Orrery Collection
Narratives Inventory no. 30120 - Former Display Label A group of practical and mechanical instruments Former Display Label - The Orrery Collection of Scientific Instruments Former Display Label - The Principal Makers of Instruments in the Orrery Collection Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925 Orrery Collection in print

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