Unknown object

A square metal box with a cut out circle. The interior of the box is a rhomboid wooden clamp on springs. It was probably part of a larger instrument.

This object come from a 14-drawer cabinet found in the Herschel family home in the 1950s. The contents of this and a similar cabinet seem to suggest that they were used by successive generations of the family to store specimens, material and apparatus for carrying out experiments.

Object Details

ID: AST1030.84
Type: Cabinet contents
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection
Measurements: Overall: 10 x 64 x 64 mm
Parts: Cabinet