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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 -…
Harpoon head. A large flat iron point with barbs, with a long shaft ending in a wide socket. The harpoon head is about two feet long.
Type: double barbed.
Inscription: refer to file
Inscription: refer to file
Harpoon head. A large, smooth iron point about nine inches long with barbs and a shaft with BON ACCORD inscribed on it.
Inscription: BONACCORD R. LINN & CO 1828
Head of Despair. A small wooden head with bared teeth, red lips and covered with flaking paint, with long white hair.
Wooden painted head, the hair is woven into a cloth scalp that is connected by an internal rod to the base. The hair stands on end when the head is sat on a electrostatically charged table, King's visitors' centre caption "Another of Professor…
Heckle Heckle Comb
Wooden handle, iron teeth and tang. Tang is heart-shaped, with central rib. Used in dressing flax.
Heckle Heckle Comb
Heckle for dressing flax, with wooden frame (one end is broken) and iron teeth, carder shape: rectangular. Reid 1912, p45, has illustration labelled A508, but the illustration is actually of A509 (a bigger heckle with round carder).
Heckle Heckle Comb
Heckle, for dressing flax, with a wooden handle, heart-shaped iron tang and long, slightly curved iron teeth, set at a right angle to the handle (one tooth missing).