Instrument case
Category
Scientific instruments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile and leather
Measurements
50 x 170 x 35 mm
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Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire
NT 427527.3
Summary
The maroon leather case for the set of two pairs of metal dividers which contains an explanation to the provenance of the objects.
Marks and inscriptions
RELIC OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON/ Two pairs of Dividers, portion of the contents of a case of instruments formerly the property of Sir Isaac Newton F.R.S. At his death they passed into the possession of an ancestor of the late Vice/ Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from whom the present owner obtained them.