Browse Items (32 total)

  • Collection: Safekeeping

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Chinese coin charm, with circular hole at centre. Obverse depicts a tiger within foliage, reverse depicts a figure on the right hand side holding a flag, and four vertical chinese characters to the left.

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Taoist Coin Sword, consisting of one iron rod as a foundation with coins fastened with red coloured string attached. Blade is made up of a double row of coins and hilt is made of coins stacked one on top of the other.

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Human figure 'used to protect household from evil spirits' One of three listed together as 'grotesque'

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Insurance badge, in lead, sun-like design From 1 High Street, Old Aberdeen, taken down April 1907 No, 744371

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'Gau' or Tibetan Prayer box. Square-shaped prayer box with four crescent shaped protrusions, one on each side of the square. In sheet gold with ornate filigree work, and set with natural turquoise stones in floral and crescent-shaped motifs.…

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These Google search results show the high level of concern around data protection in the year 2020.

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Votive offerings dedicated for sickness of the part represented, for a cure when ill.

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Man trap, in iron, nineteenth century, type: gin trap; Would have been set, hidden in undergrowth, to deter and catch poachers; The jaws are set open by the shank of metal, and when the trap is sprung, by stepping on it, the toothed jaws snap shut,…

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Model of a mortsafe from Kirkton of Skene. A heavy section of stone has metal bars attached at all edges. The metal bars would be inserted into the ground with the heavy slab onto of the grave. The model is stored upside down laying on the stone to…
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