Snuffbox
Category
Scientific instruments
Date
Unknown
Materials
Tortoiseshell
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Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire
NT 427529
Summary
An oval piece of tortoiseshell in a box.
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.