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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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One of a collection of 4 images of the Buddha, in gilded wood, all standing, presented by Lieut. Col. W. Lachlan Forbes in the 1920s.

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Fragment of medieval stained glass window mounted in a wooden frame, with a postcard 'Campaign de 1914 Ruines d'YPRES Incendie du Beffroi 22 novembre 1914'. Collected from Ypres by a soldier serving there in World War I.

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One of a large group of flint implements (Palaeolithic) found 100 feet above Ordnance Datum Line, Milton Street, Kent. Printed paper label glued to one end. Inscription: Printed paper label.

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Beaker, short-necked, Step 4/5, type: Late Northern. Decoration: bands of incised lines, stabbed lines, finger-nail impressions.

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M. 3. ROMAN BRONZE POT, found about the year 1837, at the late farm of Flabbits, Durris, Kincardineshire. Injured by the plough that turned it up.
Bronze pot or cauldron, three legs, bellied body & flaring neck, two handles. Plough damage.

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Pear-shaped, with two handles - encrusted with seaworm.

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Cinerary urn in form of mausoleum with separate sloped and ornamented roof. Contains fragments of cremated human bone. Inscription engraved on front panel. Inscription: On front panel: L VALERIVS VARVS H S E

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Magic lantern, or projector in iron. An oil-burning lamp, circular, well-ventilated with a single handle and provision for insertion of slides. There is a removable condenser and a front lens with metal lens cover. Catalogued 1971, but acquired…

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Part of a tobacco pipe made from a calabash. Illustrated in Ogston (1884-1929) Volume 1.

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