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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Shallow, concave, oval wooden platter, with four feet and 'thistle-shaped' perforated handles at each end.

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Round shaped playing cards, in cardboard, in a box.

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Harpoon point with perforations for attachment to harpoon head.

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Figure carving on top of a long pole. Thomson's MS catalogue 1862: 'A long wooden idol placed in prow of canoe.' 92. Carved post. New Guinea, Humboldt Bay. The post belonged to Alexander Thomson of Banchory House, Aberdeen until his death in 1868. In…

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

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Turkish stamps, one hundred and nine, surcharged with the Albanian double-headed eagle after Albania declared her independence on November 28th, 1912.

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Cooking pot, with everted rim and serrated projecting ridge around body, decorated with raised lines of zigzag impressions, red (slip).

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Amphora, two ribbed handles, red-figured in glazed red clay. Obverse; Hermes with caduceus persuing maiden. Reverse; bearded man leaning on staff.

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

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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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