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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Oil painting, portrait, near full, armoured, light dress sword, R hand on helmet and holding Marshall's baton. Keith (1696-1758), MA Marischal College 1715. This portrait is glazed. Inscription: On back: pinct a Paris par B Belle 1724. Name plate on…

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Oil painting, 3/4 portrait of Thomas Gordon of Cairness wearing Greek General's uniform, R arm outstretched, 2 medals on l breast. B/g Greek landscape. Gordon was a Major-General in the Greek army during the war of independence from the Ottoman…

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Oil painting, 3/4 portrait, standing, facing. Short greying brown hair, walrus moustache, wears olive drab trenchcoat, white scarf, arms behind back holding papers. Plate reads 'Archibald Forbes LLD AFTER H Von HERKOMER', so possibly a copy. Herkomer…

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This cross fragment and its base were found in a pile of stones near the Cairn o Mount. Other crosses are known from Deeside, while the pattern on the cross shaft is similar to some in the 9th century Book of Deer. The red sandstone from which they…

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incised serpent Z-rod arch mirror comb

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incised mirror-case, goose & double-disc

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Hand lantern, made of perforated tin, cylindrical in shape with handle at the top for carrying. Tray and candle within, door/window in glass.

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Death mask of Napoleon (1769-1821) taken on the day of his death on St Helena (05/05/1821) by Antommarchi.

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Statuette of a dwarf, in granite.

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Helmet, composed of chain armour and decorated with leather bands. One of two collected from Central Sudan and listed together in the museum's slip catalogue.
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