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modern Popish votive offering' heart: Inscription: old label modern Popish votive offering 1829

Three lumps of lava, mounted on a card label: 'Lava used in building houses in Pompei'. Thomson's MS Catalogue adds: 'A proof that Vesuvius a volcano before AD 79'. Inscription: Lava used in building houses in Pompei

Frame containing pieces of polished lava.

Steel blade, guard in the form of two gilded animals, long wooden shaft painted in red, black and yellow. Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Spear - Gold mounted - from Sumatra - bought from Major Ondaatje.'

Jug (or askos) in red clay with black glaze, used for feeding lamps with oil. Nola manufacture.

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…

Carving of a bishop, seated, in sandstone. Crozier: continental type. Possibly part of a corbel table. There are, down the East coast, a number of figure carvings. The stone itself is from the band of Old Red Sandstone that stretches to Fermanagh.

Figure of Ptah-Sokar in green glazed ware.

Part of a statuette of a scribe, holding a palette (imperfect - head, shoulders and one arm with hand).

Green glazed ushabti figure, inscribed all round signifying 'Pa-en-my born of Ates'. Inscription: all round, signifying Pa-en-my born of Ates