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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Pop-gun, in wood, having end of piston shredded to fit tube tightly.

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Notched wooden stick used by bakers in counting out loaves of bread

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collar.jpg
Iron collar to protect dogs from wolves.

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Iron muzzle, half circle with 6 u-shaped spikes. For calves, to make cow kick when they suck and so wean them by force. All over Albania.

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Spoon in wood, handle carved with design of animal (fish?). Made by monks on Mount Athos, Greece.

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Spoon, engraved with floral and geometrical designs, in beech wood. From the Pindus Mountains, Greece.

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Spoon, engraved with figure of double-headed eagle and human face, in boxwood. Made in prison at Corfu, Macedonia.

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Beech wood bowl, used by travellers for holding cheese

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Spindle whorl, decorated with floral and geometric designs, and figures of birds, in boxwood. Used in spinning.

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Bread-stamp in wood. Carved by Monks on Mount Athos, Greece, and found in every Greek household. On main side, two compartments for Jesus Christ, one for nine archangels and one for Virgin Mary. The small stamp is a duplicate of the compartment…
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