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  Plastics

  Set of Celluloid Billiard Balls in Wooden Box

  • Circa 1880

  Set of celluloid billiard balls with brown cue ball; balls are divided in bottom section of square wooden box by cardboard dividers.

  • Subject Billiards, Celluloid, Plastics industry and trade
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Robert Christison to Lyon Playfair

  • Circa 1842 – circa 1882 (Letter written on May 12. Year unknown.)

  Christison requesting Playfair's opinion of a thesis which he describes as "an incomplete investigation of a difficult subject."

  • Addressee Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898
  • Author Christison, Robert, Sir, 1797-1882
  • Subject Christison, Robert, Sir, 1797-1882, Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898
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  Engravings, Prints, Portraits

  Professor Wohler

  • After 1840 – before 1940

  A half-length portrait of Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), a German chemist.

  • Artist Cook, Conrad
  • After L'Allemand, Conrad, 1809-1880
  • Subject Wöhler, Friedrich, 1800-1882