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J - Jacobite to Jameson, George

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A large, ornate printed capital letter J with a box, a sword, pistol, shield, horn, cushion and medals.

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Jacobite 17c-
1 n An adherant of James VII and his descendants 
2 adj object bearing mottoes expressing sympathy with the cause of the Stuart monarchy. 

If the man whose credit cards are inscribed Prince James Edward Stuart has his way, the nineties will herald independence for Scotland...the family travel on Swiss passports. They shuttle between Greenwich and Manchester, where the Jacobite party is headquartered. Manchester? The space was available he shrugs.The library and management are there, the financial centre is in Paris". He moved to the States 14 years ago ostensibly to help other emigrees. Now he spends his days recruiting Jacobite candidates to run for election, and showing the kilt at Highland gatherings in New Jersey. 
Marion Collins, May 1990 Sunday Mail Magazine

Toddy ladle. Long, turned wooden handle with a bulbous end. The silver bowl of the ladle has a coin incorporated into the bottom. The coin has the profile of a man wearing laurels and is inscribed GEORGIUS II DEI GRATIA.

Silver and wood toddy ladle with a 1746 3d piece of George II in the bowl.

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Toddy ladle. Long, turned wooden handle with a bulbous end. The silver bowl of the ladle has a coin incorporated into the bottom. The coin has the profile of a man wearing laurels and is inscribed GEORGIUS II DEI GRATIA.

The bowl of the ladle.

Sword. A steel sword with a basket hilt decorated with punched hearts and dots, and cushioned with red felt. The blade is inscribed and decorated with scrolls, foliage and a depiction of St. Andrew.

Sword inscribed 'ST ANDREAS PROSPERITY TO SCOTLAND NO UNION GOD SAVE KING JAMES YE VIII' (early 18th cent.)

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Sword. A steel sword with a basket hilt decorated with punched hearts and dots, and cushioned with red felt. The blade is inscribed and decorated with scrolls, foliage and a depiction of St. Andrew.

The inscription on the blade.

Gun Pistol Flintlock Pistol

Pistol used by John Roy Stuart, Captain of the Badenoch Regiment in 1745-6.

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Targe. A circular shield, about a foot and a half wide, covered with leather and studded with brass rivets arranged in four concentric circles. Four brass bosses incised with spiralling lines are equidistant from each other near the edge, and in the centre is a large boss with a pointed blade about a foot long projecting from it.

John Roy Stuart's targe, lost by him at Clifton, Cumberland.

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Powder horn. Made of a flattened horn, cream coloured grading into dark brown at the top. Decorated with incised knotwork circles and bands, two unicorns and three horse heads beneath the letters M, A, F, a pentagram in a circle, a thistle and a crude profile of a man wearing a hat.

Powder horn engraved '1691 The glorie of the honourable is to fear God', which is the motto of the Saltoun family.

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Dispatch box. An ornate rectangular wooden box, about a foot wide, with brass fittings. The box has veneer with a wavy grain which is arranged in panels radiating from the centre of each side, creating a flower like pattern.

Dispatch box of James Keith, later Field Marshal (c1715).

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Goblet. Narrow, fluted glass goblet with a thick stem, engraved with an inscription and a man riding a horse.

Glass engraved with 'The Glorious Memory of King William, BOYNE 1st July 1690' (1730-1740).

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Snuff mull. Small silver box, with a bulbous tub shape. The lid is engraved with a rose and the inscription William Forbes of Blacktoun, the body engraved with a coat of arms with three horse heads and a crescent moon on it, a knight's helmet with a tree on top, all surrounded by foliage. Above is the inscription EUIR ESCO.

Snuff mull of William Forbes of Balcktoun engraved 'EUIR ESCO'.

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Snuff mull. Small lidded wooden box with a bulbous tub shape, a silver band and hinge at the opening and a silver circle on the lid inscribe ROB GIB'S CONTRACT.

Snuff mull engraved 'Rob Gib's Contract' (a Jacobite password).

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Snuff mull. A small spiral shaped horn with a wooden top and leather cord.

Horn snuff mull 'made in a house on Culloden Moor by one of the survivors of the battle'.

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Medallion. Copper metal medallion with the profile of a large man wearing a cuirass and the inscription GULIELMUS DUX CUMBRIAE on one side. On the other a man kneels before a lion wearing a crown, and 1746 is inscribed,

Medallion of the Duke of Cumberland and the Battle of Culloden (1746).

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Medallion. Grey metal medallion, with the profile of a man wearing laurels and the inscription CVIVS EST on one side. On the other is a map of the British Isles with regions labelled Scot, Brit and Hib. The isles are surrounded by ships and the word REDDITE is inscribed.

Silver medallion of James VII proclaiming his right to the throne inscribed 'REDDITE' ('Give it back')

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Medal Token

Culloden medallion (1746).

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Medallion. Grey metal medallion. On one side is a profile of a large man wearing a cuirass, around the edges is inscribed GULIELMUS GEOR II R FIL DUX CUMBRIAE. On the other a heroic male figure wearing a lion's skin stand over a vanquished medusa and assists a woman with a spear and a shield with the Union Flag on it. At the bottom is inscribed ERDVELIB EX ANG FUGAT AD CULLOD DEBELLAT 16 APR 1746.

Cumberland medallion (1746).

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Buttons. 11 small, stud shaped silver buttons with roses engraved on them.

Silver Jacobite buttons with white roses (18th cent.)

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Pin cushion. Small white rectangular cushion with blue tassels at each corner. Printed in blue ink and arranged in concentric circles are a large number of names. In the centre is a rose with the inscription MART : FOR : KING : & : COU : 1746 around it.

Pin cushion inscribed with the names of those who died in the 1745 rebellion.

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Print. A winding street of terraced houses with some pedestrians. The focus is a house with three turret like structures up the sides and overhanging the street.

Jamesone's house in Schoolhill.

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Jamesone, George portrait painter 
b c1588 Aberdeen d1644;
studied under Rubens, returned to Scotland 1620, left for Edinburgh 1633 

Jamesone, born in Aberdeen and trained in Edinburgh, from about 1620 produced during the next twenty-four years many scores of portraits of the Scottish nobility, scholars, and leading burgesses in a style which is basically native, but not native. 
Duncan Thomson 1974. The Life & Art of George Jamesone

J - Jacobite to Jameson, George