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Bouat lantern. A wooden cuboid lantern, about a foot tall, with a peaked top like a gable roof, and windows on the sides. A candle is inside. The top sides are decorated with punched metal plates and it has a leather handle.
Hand lantern, or bouat lantern, 19th century, to hold a candle. Made of wood in a house-shape with a tin roof pierced with holes for ventilation, three glass windows and a leather carrying strap. There is a sliding panel at the back for lighting…
Bunker lamp. A small tin lamp shaped like a watering can, with a long handle that comes vertically up over the centre. The spout has a thick bundle of wick coming out of it.
An early type of oil lamp, made of tin, to burn naptha, a flammable oil distilled from the oil shales of central Scotland. The inner, lidded, cylindical vessel holds the naptha and has a spout which holds the wick. The outer shell is to catch…
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
Communion plate. A wide pewter plate.
Communion plate, in pewter.
Communion cup. Large silver cup with straight sides, engraved with a figure with long hair wearing only a cloak and holding a bird on one arm, surrounded by decorative scrolls and grotesque faces, and inscribed ANDREAS THOMSONUS, SCOTO-BORUSSUS, COLL: REG: ABERD:, IBID: EDUCAT, DONO DEDIT, 1643.
From Danzig (Gdansk). In 1642 two students from Danzig, Andrew Thomson and Peter Specht, came to study in the fourth year of the MA course at King's College, Aberdeen University and in 1643 each donated an engraved silver Danzig beaker to the…
Communion Beaker Cup
From Danzig (Gdansk). In 1642 two students from Danzig, Andrew Thomson and Peter Specht, came to study in the fourth year of the MA course at King's College, Aberdeen University, and in 1643 each donated an engraved silver Danzig beaker to the…
Ladle. A steel tub shaped ladle with a long hooked handle.
Small steel ladle with rod handle which has a hook at the end.
Cup. A fat silver cup with a stem and scalloped decoration around the base and foot.
Made by Roger Booth of Aberdeen, and given to William Machray by his students.
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Communion cup. A slender silver cup with a tall stem. It is highly decorated with engraved scrolls, foliage and coats of arms.
Silver communion cup made by W Melville of Aberdeen in 1652 and given to Marischal College in 1653 by George Gordon of Strathnaver. It is engraved with a floriate design around the coat of arms of Lord Strathnaver on the front and the reverse, each…
Silver arrow. Arrow, about a foot long, in silver with a ring at the end. The fins of the arrow have an engraved crown and coat of arms on them.
Silver arrow. Prize formerly contended for by a Fraternity of Bowmen in Aberdeen.
Inscription: Engraved with: coat.of.arms of Earls.Marischal and L WK vicit anno 1769
Inscription: Engraved with: coat.of.arms of Earls.Marischal and L WK vicit anno 1769