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Harness ornament. A piece of black leather with metal studs and badges. In the centre is a badge consisting of a dot, a ring and hearts arranged in a ring, there are also two badges composed of a red disc with a horseshoe in the middle.
Decorated headpiece from a bridle of a working horse at Whitebogs, New Deer, Aberdeenshire. Two loops on the back to fit on a bridle. Black leather has been used and the decorations are: central panel - a silver sun motif with hearts, side panels -…
Fir Gully Knife
Fir gully or knife, with an iron blade and wooden handle. From Cults, Aberdeenshire. The knife was used to cut 'fir candles', splinters of wood from pine trees. This knife has been hafted into a home-made handle and is held in place with a thin…
Fir Gully Knife
Knife or fir gully, with an iron blade and a manufactured wooden handle held in place with a decorated brass ferrule (decoration: incised bands & rings). The knife was used to cut fir candles, strips of wood from pine trees.
Spoon
Horn spoon, handle shape: tapered & fluted.
Spoon mould. Two pieces of wood hinged together. On one piece is an oval depression, on the other a raised area the same shape.
Wooden mould for making a horn spoon, hinged at the bowl end with a leather thong. There are two spoon moulds in the collection - this one is noted and illustrated in Reid's 1912 catalogue.
Pistol. A very small, simple pistol with a steel barrel and a wooden handle.
Percussion pistol with a steel barrel, formerly used at marriages in Aberdeenshire.
Bullet mould. Two brass bars with six half spherical depressions, hinged together at the end. A spherical lead bullet sits in one of the depressions.
Brass mould, used in making six spherical leaden bullets (looks like nutcrackers with 6 matrices, each for a round shot). Steel pin and fastening hook. One lead shot accompanies. Scarred by hammermarks from casting shot.
Bullet moulds. A tongs like device with a box on the ends.
One matrix and inset for conical bullet and one matrix for spherical shot. Looks like a pair of heavy pliers, closed by an iron lever with two holes for pouring in lead while casting.
Inscription: on handle: No 25
Inscription: on handle: No 25
Brose Cap Bassie Bowl
Wooden bowl, turned out of a single piece of wood, repaired with iron clamps and hoop. Used for making brose (boiling water, milk or a mixture of both poured over oatmeal and stirred).
Ladle
Food ladle, in wood.