Some of the better things that have ended up on my desk as of late...

A series of letters written in pencil sent from a Mother & Father to their son in the hospital in the 1930s from Gravesend, Kent
(Included in the tin along with his replies are several glass slides and one small framed photograph of what is probably the family.)
STEM travelling iron - 1950s
MATSUI WR208S 7 band SW, LW, MW, FM radio
TREKKER precision palm microscope x35
AGFA PARAT-I half frame camera - 1963
SALTER STAFFORDSHIRE cast iron hanging scales and weights
SKANKTIC transistor radio - 1950s
W&J GEORGE LTD of Birmingham weights (gold and brass) 1930
BESWICK porcelain westie dog
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 1937 edition
CARLTON WARE 1960s jug
OLD FOUNTAIN PEN with ink well
1920s ladies cigarette purse made of fine silver chainmail.
BEATLES RECORDS:
white album - numbered
sergeant pepper's - with insert
beatles for sale - first pressing
let it be on white vinyl
5 SINGER sewing machines
4 dating from 1865 (to early for a model number)
1 dating from 1900 (singer 66)