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Tinder box. A copper box with two lid panels. In one half is a candle holder which has a candle in it. Next to the box are two buckle shaped pieces of metal and a piece of flint.
Combined tinder-box and candlestick, in copper, with three flints and one strikelight.
Spurs. A pair of U shaped steel rods with a leather belt between the ends and a prong with a spiked wheel protruding from the middle.
Pair of spurs, made from steel, 'best hard' inscribed inside the heel, with leather straps. Donor unknown, but old label states: WILSON COLLECTION.
Inscription: Inside heel: BEST HARD Old label: WILSON COLLECTION
Inscription: Inside heel: BEST HARD Old label: WILSON COLLECTION
Dental key. A steel tool with a bone handle. A crooked rod of steel projects from the handle. Two hinged curved arms with toothed tips and a fastener are on the end.
Dental key, later 19th century, used to extract teeth. Made of iron with an ivory handle. It has four hooks or heads each fitted on to the key by a screwed sleeve, and each is designed to fit around a different size and type of tooth.
Scales Weight Set
Set of scales, with brass pans and brass weights, in a wooden box. Used by Rev Alexander John Forsyth for weighing the ingredients used to make a detonating powder in 1805-6. Forsyth invented the percussion lock for fire arms, and his experiments…
Snuff Horn
Made from horn, cork stopper at one end, tiny carved animal head with eyes, nose and ears in white at other end.
Coin Penny 1 Pence
Silver coin, penny. Obv: head of king to r. Rev: Long cross pommee with star in each angle.
Inscription: Obv: ALEXANDERREX Rev: O [R or P] IO-I O-1 AB
Inscription: Obv: ALEXANDERREX Rev: O [R or P] IO-I O-1 AB
Coin Penny
Silver coin, penny - 2nd issue. Obv: Head of king (Alexander III) to left, crowned; before, sceptre. Rev: Long cross pattee with a mullet in each quarter (a 'mullet' is a star with a hole in centre). Three of the mullets have six points and one…
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…
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…