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Pin cushion. Small white rectangular cushion with blue tassels at each corner. Printed in blue ink and arranged in concentric circles are a large number of names. In the centre is a rose with the inscription MART : FOR : KING : & : COU : 1746 around it.
Pin cushion in cream satin with a blue silk tassle in each corner. Printed in the centre is a Jacobite rose, and the words 'MART FOR K & COU: 1746', and around this are printed the names of those who died in the 1745 rebellion.
Inscription: MART FOR…
Inscription: MART FOR…
Cup. A plain cup made of a large piece of horn, with a glass bottom.
Horn cup, eighteenth century, with glass bottom. Allows the drinker to see if money ('the king's shilling') was hidden in the ale.
Amputation kit. A wooden box containing various saws and knives.
Professor Dyce DavidsonÔÇÖs amputation kit. Wooden, velvet-lined box contains three types of saw: a tenon saw, a hacksaw and blade, a small (broken) handsaw, also a sawchain, two large knives and a small knife, all in stainless steel with black…
Trepanning kit. A wooden box with tools inside. The tools consist of two circular serrated cutters, a flat axe shaped tool with a serrated edge, a tool with two flat serrated discs at the end, spatulas with toothed surfaces and a brush.
Box containing trepanning instruments: bits and handle, two-sided saws, extenders.
Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase. A large silver trophy decorated with foliage, lions and the heads of bearded men.
Large silver cup given by Alexander Littlejohn to be used as a trophy or 'challenge vase' for an annual shinty competition among Scottish universities, and known as the 'Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase'. The cup is a copy, in silver, of…
Dispatch box. An ornate rectangular wooden box, about a foot wide, with brass fittings. The box has veneer with a wavy grain which is arranged in panels radiating from the centre of each side, creating a flower like pattern.
Dispatch box of Field-Marshall James Francis Edward Keith (1696-1758), younger brother of George, 10th and last Earl Marischal. It is made of wood with brass bindings, handles and clasp. The rosewood veneer on the front and lid is laid to give a…
Staff. A gold-coloured staff about half a metre long, with silver ends and a copper band in the middle.
The Marischal Staff of Scotland in gilded brass with ends in steel. One end has royal arms in relief, the other the arms of the Earls Marischal in relief.
Inscription: royal.arms arms.Earls.Marischal
Inscription: royal.arms arms.Earls.Marischal
Cups. Two simple cups made of horn, with silver rims inscribed MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN 1801 No1 and No2.
Two horn beakers, with silver rims. Inscription on rim (1801 is the date of the establishment of Mitchell's Hospital).
Inscription: MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN 1801 No1 & No2
Inscription: MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN 1801 No1 & No2
Spirit measures. Three cups of different sizes, shaped like cones with the tops cut off, in a shiny slightly iridescent metal. The largest cup is inscribed 3 DRAMS, the other 1 1/2 DRAMS and the smallest has no inscription.
Measure for measuring spirits, cone-like, in silver plate.
Brooch. A flat tarnished silver ring almost four inches wide with the word LONACH and a thistle incised on the front. On the back is a pin and the inscription Stewart Forbes 1853.
Brass brooch, silver-plated. Front decoration: inscription and thistle.
Inscription: Front: LONACH Back: Jas Stewart Forbes 1853
Inscription: Front: LONACH Back: Jas Stewart Forbes 1853