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Bead
Colours: green bead with yellow spiral. Shape: globular. Type: Meare spiral (Guido 1978, Class 10).
Red grouse. Two taxidermy red grouse, pigeon sized birds with mottled brown, black, white and gold plumage. The birds are hanging by their feet.
Stuffed bird, red grouse, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Brown stone ball, very round, with six large flat circular knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4a, 6 knobs, not very prominent.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black, coarse stone ball with six large squarish knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4b, six knobs.
Book Document
Illustrated edition of Byron's poems.
Mace. A large silver ceremonial mace, almost a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace of King's College made by Walter Melville of Aberdeen, 1650.
Mace. Large silver ceremonial mace, about a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace for Marischal College, still used today in the University graduation ceremonies.
Button mould. A piece of slate with two depressions: the outline of a heart with a crown on top, and a disc with a cross in it.
Matrix design: cross & linear design.
Pin. A pin made of bone, about three inches long. A small thistle is carved on one end.
Thistle-headed bone pin. Decoration on thistle head: cross-hatching.
Curtain sample. A rectangular piece of tartan curtain. White background, with narrow and wide vertical bands of light blue and red, and horizontal bands of dark blue and red, light yellow and black.
Tartan curtain from Balmoral Castle; white ground, red, black, yellow, turquoise-blue stripes in warp direction over pink and pale blue stripes in weft direction.
Inscription: Handwritten: Window Curtain Balmor..
Inscription: Handwritten: Window Curtain Balmor..