Clothes press of mahogany, with swan-necked pediment, two-door cabinet and four-drawer chest, made by William (Deacon) Brodie of Edinburgh in 1786

Longcase musical clock with a light mahogany case and a chime of 24 bells playing 8 tunes, made by John Smith, Pittenweem, Fife, who exhibited it in London before the Royal Family in 1808

Set of Northumbrian small pipes with a stitched leather bag inside a red baize bag trimmed with red braid, the drones, stocks and chanter of ivory, the latter of the plain open type and attached to the blowpipe is a small keyhole shaped bellows, 18th - early 19th century

Octant with 17" ebony frame and limb, brass index arm, inlaid ivory scale with diagonal divisions and ivory plate marked 'George Morris 1755', probably English, maker unknown, 1755

Sextant, marked, made by William Cary of London, c. 1890

Sextant, anodized brass Dollond-pattern 7" frame with polished brass limb and wooden handle with brass-lined hole, in polished mahogany box with certificate, used on the British Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1904 (the Discovery Expedition), signed by Henry Hughes of London, c. 1900

Sextant, anodized brass diamond and diamond-pattern 8" frame, polished brass limb and wooden handle, in fitted mahogany box, signed and made by William Cary of London, 1890

Quintant (sextant), anodized brass 4" frame, polished brass limb, and wooden handle, in mahogany keystone box, used on the Antarctic Expedition of 1901, signed and made by William Cary of London, c. 1900

Four inch sextant in a fitted wooden case, by Cary of London, 1901, used to take bearings on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1901 - 1904

Quintant (sextant), aluminium 3" straight-bar-pattern frame and limb, and wooden handle, in fitted mahogany box, used on the Antarctic Expedition of 1901, signed and made by William Cary of London, c. 1900

Double-sounding sextant for measuring wide angles, anodized brass Dollond-pattern 7" brass frame, polished brass limb and wooden handle, in square fitted mahogany box, signed and made by Henry Hughes and Son of London, c. 1894

Late seventeenth century hand microscope in brass with four powers in rotating wheel, with adjustable spike for holding specimen, also with a mahogany box, made in the late 17th century

Compound microscope made by J. Finlayson, Edinburgh, 1743, with an ebony stand with a divided drawer containing several accessories, in a mahogany case with a drawer containing mineral samples

Surveyor's sextant of brass fitted with reading microscope, with a pillar stand, made by Troughton and Simms, London, in two mahogany cases

Single needle telegraph instrument in glazed mahogany case, W.T. Henley, late 19th century

Original Fleming two electrode thermionic valve mounted an a mahogany base, used first as a detector in wireless telegraphy, by Sir Ambrose Fleming, England, 1904