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Toddy ladle with a polished wood handle and a silver bowl. The base of bowl is formed from a George II threepenny piece.
Inscription: GEORGIVS II | DEI GRATIA

Set of fleams, three small steel knife blades with a tongue, used to bleed horses. Enclosed in a pen-knife shaped case, made from horn.

Mould for making a single candle, with screw thread at either end, top detachable. Stamped with maker's mark.
Inscription: makers mark: CL 3

Five-pronged iron fish spear, known as a leister. The barbed tines prevent the fish from slipping off the spear. It comes from Strathdon, Aberdeenshire.

Smoking cap with a tassle. The cap belonged to Gavin Greig and is in black velvet, embroidered with a design of flowers.

Type: four plait.

An iron brazier, or leister crusie, from Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. Used for poaching fish by night. Peats burning in the crusie give out light, which attracts fish. The fish are then caught with a leister, a five-pronged fish spear.

Shape: square. With brass chain, inscribed on one side with 'Bad Character Old Mill' and on other side 'Deserter Old Mill'. Was used in the old Workhouse of Old Mill, Aberdeen as punishment.
Inscription: BAD CHARACTER OLD MILL | DESERTER OLD MILL

Glass goblet. The sides of the wine glass are etched with the words 'The Glorious Memory of King William', a figure on horseback, and 'Boyne 1st July 1690'. It was made in two parts, with a domed, inverted base and a folded foot and the pontil mark…

Single ply, wound into a tight skein.