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M - Muir

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A large printed capital letter M with shotguns, flasks, cartridges and a pair of grouse.

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muir la15-, mure la14-e19 
1n = moor 
2 Rough cultivated heathery land considered as part of an estate freq used for gun sports. 
~burn the controlled burning of moorland to make way for new growth. 
~cock the male red grouse. 
~pout a young red grouse 16-e20. 

The 12th of August is, generally speaking, too early to commence grouse-shooting. The 24th would be a better day to appoint. The early period being fit only for those who shoot for the newspaper, as certain sportsmen seem to do whose names appear every season as having murdered some marvellous number of grouse on the 12th.
Charles St. John 1882. Natural History & Sport in Moray.

Shotguns. Two double barrelled shotguns, decorated with scrolls and foliage on the metal plates around the triggers.

Double barrelled muzzle loading shotguns (19th cent.) 

ABDUA:17629, 36838

Shotgun paraphernalia. A small steel bottle of gun oil, a polished copper coloured flask with a brass spout containing shot and powder, a handful of tiny copper caps and three shotgun cartridges.

Left to right: gun oil bottle, combined shot and powder flask (late 19th cent.), percussion caps and cartridges.

ABDUA:17627, 18023, 63809, 63810

Shot and powder flasks. Four teardrop shaped flasks made of leather and metal, with brass spouts. One flask is copper with embossed decoration of oak leaves.

Shot and powder flasks, Aberdenshire (19th cent.)

Left to right:

ABDUA:18036, 18020, 18025

Shot belt. A black leather belt with a small brass cartridge.

Leather shot belt, Aberdeen (early 19th cent.)

ABDUA:19287

Flask. Large pewter hip flask.

Pewter 'hip' flask, Aberdeen (19th cent.)

ABDUA:16813

Powder tester. A small pistol like device with a wooden handle and a brass and steel mechanism on the end which includes a brass wheel marked with the numbers one to ten.

Powder tester (19th cent.)

ABDUA:17628

Red grouse. Two taxidermy red grouse, pigeon sized birds with mottled brown, black, white and gold plumage. The birds are hanging by their feet.

Red grouse (Lagopus scoticus).

LEMUR:1000050

M - Muir