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Photograph. A memorial plaque on a wall at the Tower of London with two guards. The photograph is captioned TABLET IN THE TOWER OF LONDON TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH, Inventor of the Percussion Lock.
Photograph of the plaque to Rev Alexander John Forsyth, at the Tower of London, flanked by 2 Beefeaters. Framed and glazed.
Inscription: TABLET IN THE TOWER OF LONDON TO THE MEMORY OF REVEREND ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH. Inventor of the percussion lock.
Inscription: TABLET IN THE TOWER OF LONDON TO THE MEMORY OF REVEREND ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH. Inventor of the percussion lock.
Photograph. A memorial plaque with a three-quarter profile of a short haired, elderly man bordered by laurels. The plaque is inscribed PER ASPERA TENAX, 1768, 1843, To the Memory of the Reverend ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH, M A LL D, Minister of Belhevie, Aberdeenshire, In 1805 he conducted experiments in the Tower under the Master General of Ordinance and in 1807 invented the percussion system which was adopted by the British Army in 1839, This Tablet erected in 1929 by admirers of his Genius.
Photograph, framed and glazed, of the plaque to Rev Alexander John Forsyth. PER ASPERA TENAX 1768 - 1843 Minister of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire. In 1805 he conducted experiments in the Tower under the Master General of Ordnance and in 1807 invented…
Pictish Stone (Replica)
Copy of a Pictish stone in the museum collection, made for use for rubbings.
Picture Photograph (Shinty Team)
Framed photograph of the team members of the Aberdeen University Shinty Club - Scottish University Champions 2000. Team members in the front row hold their shinty sticks, and there are two cups in the foreground, one of which is the Littlejohn of…
Pike head. A large flat iron point with two curved points projecting from the bottom, on a wide iron socket.
Erroneously desribed as 'halberd' in Reid (1912).
Pin
Loose ring-headed pin, pin shape: flat (end). Two pins found together, close to or within the hut circles on Culblean Hill in united parishes of GlenMuick, Tullich & Glengairn. Fanning (1983) states that such pins are 'shroud fasteners'. Also that…
Pin
Loose ring-headed pin, pin shape: round. Two pins found together, close to or within the hut circles on Culblean Hill in united parishes of GlenMuick, Tullich & Glengairn. Fanning (1983) states that such pins are 'shroud fasteners'. Also that…
Pin cushion. Small white rectangular cushion with blue tassels at each corner. Printed in blue ink and arranged in concentric circles are a large number of names. In the centre is a rose with the inscription MART : FOR : KING : & : COU : 1746 around it.
Pin cushion in cream satin with a blue silk tassle in each corner. Printed in the centre is a Jacobite rose, and the words 'MART FOR K & COU: 1746', and around this are printed the names of those who died in the 1745 rebellion.
Inscription: MART FOR…
Inscription: MART FOR…