Browse Items (682 total)
- Collection: Encyclopaedia of the North East
Sort by:
Kist. A large flat topped rectangular wooden chest about two feet wide, with iron handles.
Wooden kist, painted brown. Information from the donor: this kist was used by Mr Alexander Stewart to hold his trousseau (given to the donor by Mrs M A Stewart).
Knife
Large knife made on a flake of black volcanic rock, perhaps pitchstone. It has a keeled back, and has been ground over the whole surface, with extra polishing/grinding to sharpen blade down one side. Parallel grooves visible on blade - maybe use…
Knife
Knife with steel blade and silver handle, handle inscribed 'this KNIFE and FORK THE Gift of JOHN LESLIE Goldsmith 1802 to MARISCHAL COLLEGE ABDN'. The end of the handle is inscribed 'R' and 'DCH 1503'. Part of a knife and fork set presented to…
Ladle
Food ladle, in wood.
Ladle. A small dark wooden ladle, carved from a single piece of wood, with a hook at the end of the handle.
Food ladle, in wood, carved in one piece. Handle shape: hooked.
Ladle. A steel tub shaped ladle with a long hooked handle.
Small steel ladle with rod handle which has a hook at the end.
Lamp. A small metal lamp with a spout on either side.
Shape: bucket-like (double wick)
Lancet Medical Instrument
Set of steel lancets, set into horn handles, with a brass container. Used by the Reverend Alexander John Forsyth LLD (1768-1843) for vaccinations against smallpox in the parish of Belhelvie.
Lantern clock. Ornate brass clock roughly the size of a lantern, with a square shape and a domed top. The face is a disc of brass engraved with roses, foliage and a face and inscribed William Sellwood fecit 1621. A silver ring around the brass disc has roman numerals on it.
Clock in square brass box with finely engraved face and turned feet, pillars and knobs. Made 1621 by William Sellwood. Silver circular face and single hand are of a later date. The hemispherical bell in a crown is struck by a steel hammer. It was…
Lantern. Cylindrical tin lantern, about a foot tall, with a conical roof and windows made of flattened sheets of horn on the sides.
Hand lantern, for a candle, with horn windows in a tin frame. The tin is stamped with the initials 'W D'.
Inscription: WD
Inscription: WD