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Threshing flail. Two wooden poles connected by a leather loop.
Threshing-flail in wood with joint in leather. Used in beating out seed.
Shovel Barn Shiel
Shovel, made from beech wood. It has a scooped blade for shovelling grain and a short handle with a looped hand-hold. Museum's Slip Catalogue: 'used on the Cowbog Farm, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, from about 1900 to 1960'.
Yard and ell measure. A long wooden bar with projections at either end so that something a yard long would fit in the space between the projections. There are markings along the bar, and brass plates on the side at either end.
Measures an ell and imperial yard each in 1/2,1/4,1/16 and 1/32nd parts.
Kelchin. A large, square wooden rack about a foot wide with a handle and hook for hanging.
Kelchin, in wood, 19th century. Suspended in the chimney to hold 'fir-candles' while being dried. Made from two bars of squared wood into which are let six unworked pieces of branch, like a ladder, and the handle is a bent branch. The iron hook is…
Naphtha lamp. Small dark grey metal lamp with a broken glass bulb.
Naptha lamp, known as an 'oilie-bubblie', made of tin with a hook for hanging. Naptha is a flammable oil distilled from the oil shales of central Scotland. This lamp has a pear-shaped metal body with a wick at the top, and a glass funnel. The naptha…
Kail gully. An iron tool with a thick wooden handle, about three feet long. The handle is round with a square end with a metal ring on it. The head of the tool consists of a twisted rod of iron with a wide S shaped projection on the end.
Kail gully, a cutting implement used to harvest kail, used in the 19th century. Wooden handle, with an iron candy-twist shaft and a steel blade.
Plate. A china plate decorated in pink with an illustration of Marischal College, portraits and coats of arms.
White china plate with designs in crimson. Commemorates the quatercentenary of the University in 1895 and the visit of King Edward VII on September 27th 1906 to open an extension of the university buildings at Marischal College. Decoration: four…
Fleerishes. Five buckle shaped pieces of steel, some with decorative spirals.
Fleerishes, or strikelights, listed together in Reid's 1912 catalogue.
Quaich Cup
Quaich, drinking-cup, in wood with twelve staves. Silver frill encircles brim and upper part of the two handles. One handle marked A Y, the other F K. Inside a silver circular badge is marked M F K and A Y. Two wooden bands circle lower part of body…
Quaich. A large bowl made of twelve curved triangular segments of wood, fastened together with a silver band. The quaich has three blocky handles which project from segments equidistant from each other.
Quaich, drinking-cup, in wood with twelve staves and three handles. Silver band encircles the staves. Silver band is part of silver plate covering base and marked with makers name.
Inscription: on base M Rettie and Sons Aberdeen
Inscription: on base M Rettie and Sons Aberdeen