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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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One of two stone images from the ruins of the Great Temple of Majoput, Java.

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Stone image, 'Granaptic God of Luck' from the ruins of the Great Temple of Majoput, Java. See Thomson Catalogue, 1847-1848, notes on pp20-21:' Idols from Java'. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Was at Museum Entrance, now in New Museum'

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Silver watch, oblong octagon in shape. Designed to have only one pointer. Dial plate has a pastoral scene with houses, outside case decorated with designs which include branches of trees. Said to have been John Knox's watch, presented to him by Queen…

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Roughly shaped piece of granite, 'bird' shaped?

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Beaker, decoration: impressed comb & incisions. Was found in August 1817 with another beaker (now lost) in 'long' cist.

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Cedar wood cabinet with 9 drawers containing plaster casts of gems executed by Bartolomeo and Pietro Paoletti, No 49 Piazza Di Spagna, Roma.. Three hundred casts depict Roman History, in Drawers I to VI, 26 casts from work of Canova in Drawer VII, 25…

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Book/manuscript written on palm leaves with wooden covers. Accompanying letter from Hugh G Mair, Batavia, states 'Purchased in Surabaya, Java, from a Madoerese native. Believed to be a translation of Koran in either Javanese or Madoerese'. Probably…

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Gold medal awarded to Alexander Thomson of Banchory-Devenick 1834. Inscription: Highlands and Agricultural Society of Scotland report on settling crofters on waste ground

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Silver medal awarded to Alexander Thomson of Banchory-Devenick, 1832. Inscription: Aberdeenshire Horticultural Society celery

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Presented to Alexander Thomson Esq of Banchory, by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for a report on the cultivation of chicory and flax in Belgium, 1837. Inscription: SEMPER ARMIS NUNC ET INDUSTRIA Highland and Agricultural Society…
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