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Beaker. A light bluish, fat glass beaker. It is painted with flowers, a gold band with rows of white and blue dots near the rim, the motto VIVENT VIVAS 1631 PM; and a coat of arms with the top half of the shield plain red and the lower half ermine, and a knight's helmet with a yellow bird's head on top and ribbons above the shield.
Decoration: flowers (red, blue, yellow, white, green) & coat of arms. Shape: bowed cylinder (flat pedestal). This glass was originally the property of Paul Menzies of Kinmundy and bears his coat of arms and initials. It was probably made in N Germany…
Beaker. A small earthen ware pot. The base is about half the size of the opening and the body flares out in the middle before contracting again. Decorated with incised bands of horizontal lines and a band of vertical and zig zag lines near the rim.
Late Northern beaker, found at Pittodrie, Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire, in a cist with another beaker (ABDUA: 19708). Decorated with four bands of horizontal lines around the lower body, belly, neck and rim, with plain zones between them. A…
Beaker. A small earthenware cup, with three incised horizontal lines below the rim and two rows of diamonds filled with vertical lines on the body.
Incised decoration: on body - lozenges & vertical lines; on rim - 3 bands; on base - 3 bands. Found in a short stone cist, with a mass of brown fibrous material and incomplete skeleton, ABDUA: 14232. Cist was found in gravel bank on the farm of…
Beaker. Pewter beaker with thick foot and the inscription For the Church of Peterhead 1729 near the rim.
Pewter communion beaker, tubular shape with flaring rim and expanded foot. Inscribed: ' For the Church of Peterhead 1729'.
Inscription: FOR THE CHURCH OF PETERHEAD 1729
Inscription: FOR THE CHURCH OF PETERHEAD 1729
Beggars Badge
Beggar's badge (model).
Inscription: P. NIGG D.C. MINr No.1773
Inscription: P. NIGG D.C. MINr No.1773
Bellarmine wine jar. A fat mottled brown ceramic bottle with a design containing a love heart stamped on the middle, and on the neck a face of a grimacing elderly bearded man with bushy eyebrows. The upper neck has broken off.
Wine jar, 'Greybeard' or 'Bellarmine' type. Neck broken off. According to donor, Dr W D Simpson, in 1938: 'Dredged up by a trawler off the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour.'
Bellarmine wine jar. A fat mottled brown ceramic bottle with a handle, a rose stamped on the middle, and on the neck a face of an elderly bearded man with bushy eyebrows.
Bellarmine wine jar; glaze colour, dark & light tan (mottled), rose medallion & bearded caricature stamped on the side (a Protestant caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine.)
Bells. Two silver jingle bells with traces of green paint.
Two bells (pellet type), originally part of a horse harness. Originally electro-plated but this has worn off and been replaced with green paint. One of a number of items donated by Mrs Argo of Aberdeen, some of which were used on the farm of Darnabo,…
Belt Plate
Officer's Shoulder Belt Plate. Silver, oval, with an applied thistle, in high relief, surmounted by separately applied crown (each with original lugs and brass pin). GORDON engraved above, HIGHLANDERS engraved below. Whole design enclosed within…