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ARP helmet. A white metal helmet with a wide brim and a bowl shaped top, with the letter R painted on.
One 'Rescue' ARP (Air Raid Precautions) warden's 'tin hat', white, 1939 issue. Used by Mr J Barclay during his duties as section (platoon) leader in Aberdeen Civil Defence.
Inscription: R
Inscription: R
Tweezers. A pair of small bronze tweezers.
Tiny bronze tweezers, possibly North German, medieval.
Axel loops. Two heavily rusted, cracked fragments of iron with a flat curved shape.
Eight fragments of corroded iron, some of which form a ring when put together, and corroded iron rivets.
Inscription: Old number: 261
Inscription: Old number: 261
Tobacco jar. A large painted red jar almost a foot tall, vase shaped with a flared base and a body that bulges out toward the top. Painted on the front is a gold label with the appearance of drapery with the word MIXTURE on it.
Red jar, black tin lid. Decoration on jar: large black and gold shield with word 'MIXTURE'. Contents:3/4 ring of XXX Bogie.
Notes Rule Book
1861 shinty rules
Dynamical top. A brass spinning top on a stand. The top has six knobs on its edge and three on its upper surface. On a rod projecting from the top is a paper disc divided into green, blue, red and yellow quarters.
Brass top on brass stand pivoting on jeweled insert to design described by James Clerk Maxwell in the paper ' '. The adjustments allow small changes to be made in the moments and products of inertia and also the position of the support to be…
Scientific paper. A book open on a page with an illustration of the dynamical top and diagrams of circles, a sphere and cube with concentric lines. Opposite is a page of text explaining the dynamical top.
Journal of the Royal Society - showing an illustration of dynamical top.
Necklace. A simple gold plated chain necklace.
Gold-plated necklace purchased in Aberdeen, 1990.
Nelson Mandela gong. A black plastic medallion with green, yellow and red cord wrapped around the edge. The surface of the medallion has a background of horizontal green, yellow and red bands and a portrait of Nelson Mandela printed in black on it. A black shoelace is tied to the medallion.
Pendant, suspended on a cord, coloured card printed in black with a portrait of Nelson Mandela.
Pin heads. Three small, roughly cylindrical objects made of orange ceramic with holes running through the centre.
Excavated from an eroding bank behind steading at NJ943547. The pin heads were among a cremated deposit of human bone. Shape: barrel-shaped (only 3 on display May 1992). A similar pin head was found accompanying the cremation deposit at…