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Cup. A fat silver cup with a stem and scalloped decoration around the base and foot.
Made by Roger Booth of Aberdeen, and given to William Machray by his students.
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Ladle. A steel tub shaped ladle with a long hooked handle.
Small steel ladle with rod handle which has a hook at the end.
Communion Beaker Cup
From Danzig (Gdansk). In 1642 two students from Danzig, Andrew Thomson and Peter Specht, came to study in the fourth year of the MA course at King's College, Aberdeen University, and in 1643 each donated an engraved silver Danzig beaker to the…
Communion cup. Large silver cup with straight sides, engraved with a figure with long hair wearing only a cloak and holding a bird on one arm, surrounded by decorative scrolls and grotesque faces, and inscribed ANDREAS THOMSONUS, SCOTO-BORUSSUS, COLL: REG: ABERD:, IBID: EDUCAT, DONO DEDIT, 1643.
From Danzig (Gdansk). In 1642 two students from Danzig, Andrew Thomson and Peter Specht, came to study in the fourth year of the MA course at King's College, Aberdeen University and in 1643 each donated an engraved silver Danzig beaker to the…
Communion plate. A wide pewter plate.
Communion plate, in pewter.
Lantern. Cylindrical tin lantern, about a foot tall, with a conical roof and windows made of flattened sheets of horn on the sides.
Hand lantern, for a candle, with horn windows in a tin frame. The tin is stamped with the initials 'W D'.
Inscription: WD
Inscription: WD
Bunker lamp. A small tin lamp shaped like a watering can, with a long handle that comes vertically up over the centre. The spout has a thick bundle of wick coming out of it.
An early type of oil lamp, made of tin, to burn naptha, a flammable oil distilled from the oil shales of central Scotland. The inner, lidded, cylindical vessel holds the naptha and has a spout which holds the wick. The outer shell is to catch…
Bouat lantern. A wooden cuboid lantern, about a foot tall, with a peaked top like a gable roof, and windows on the sides. A candle is inside. The top sides are decorated with punched metal plates and it has a leather handle.
Hand lantern, or bouat lantern, 19th century, to hold a candle. Made of wood in a house-shape with a tin roof pierced with holes for ventilation, three glass windows and a leather carrying strap. There is a sliding panel at the back for lighting…
Pull up lamp. Small dark grey metal lamp. It has a circular base with a handle, and a rod projecting up from the centre. Around the rod is coiled a wick coated in a waxy red substance. The wick has been pulled through a candle holder like structure which is on top of the rod.
19th century lamp, in brass, with a carrying handle and a hinged pan holder. Instead of burning a normal candle it burns a long, red beeswax taper coiled round a central column and held by a clip.
