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Snuff Box
Shape: rectangular (rounded corners).
Snuff Mull
Decoration: star (top), dog-tooth design (sides).
Snuff Box
Shape: boot-like. Mount shape: rhomboid
Horn sheets. Three rectangular sheets of clear horn.
Shape: rectangular.
Bonnet Broad Bonnet
Green broad bonnet, hand-knitted, wool. 'Worn by General Sir Alexander Leith, Glenkindie, Aberdeenshire' Reid (1912).
Telescope. Brass telescope, about half a meter long, covered with dark wood veneer. It has an ornate brass stand with curved legs.
Reflecting telescope with Gregorian optics, possibly made in London, concave secondary mirror, no name on speculum-metal primary mirror. Unusual brass pillar stand possibly made in Edinburgh. Upright image of magnification x8.
Inscription: Old label…
Inscription: Old label…
Groat. A silver coin with the profile of a man wearing a crown and the inscription DAVID DEI GRA REX SCOTORUM around the edge on one side. The other side has a cross and stars and the inscription DNS PTECTOR MS Z LIBATOR MS VILL A A BERDON.
Silver coin, groat - 2nd issue. Obv: Bust of king (David II) to l., crowned and dividing, below the tressure which consists of six arches; before sceptre. Rev: (in two concentric circles; stops, crosses). Long cross pattee dividing legends with…