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Letter with the seal of Marischal College sent by the College to the King of the Two Sicilies.
Print. Titled The Sapient Septemviri, the print depicts a row of scholars linking arms while another scholar speaks from a podium. The scholars are mostly dressed in black gowns with square caps, but some have an absurd appearance. One is depicted as a skeleton with a scythe, another wears all tartan and wields a polearm, and another has a large conical hat with an orb and cross on top.
Engraving, caricature portrait of King's College Staff in various guises (minister, death, pope, highlander, and 4 in academic robes) standing on tiled floor with the steeples of King's College and St Machar's behind (at the time of a proposed union…
Print. A winding street of terraced houses with some pedestrians. The focus is a house with three turret like structures up the sides and overhanging the street.
Etching of a house with turrets. Monogram 'R' top right - for George Reid (1841-1913).
Inscription: Top right: R
Inscription: Top right: R
Print of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen. A print of the front of a cathedral with a large arched doorway, three large slightly pointed arch shaped windows with tracery, four decorative towers, crenelated roof lines and a cross at the peak of the central roof.
Engraving of St. Andrew's Cathedral as designed by Archibald Simpson 1822.
Print of the Aberdeen weigh house. A long building with a gable roof, small dormers, square windows, three simple wooden doors leading on to a balcony accessible by a staircase on the outside, and two large arched wooden doors on the lower level.
Black and white print of the Weigh House.
Inscription: The Weigh House
Inscription: The Weigh House
Powder Flask
Powder flask, made of black horn with a cigar-shaped body and with two sizes of powder measure, one at each end (probably to measure the powder required for pistol, shooting gun and large bore gun). Used by the Reverend Alexander John Forsyth who…
Skewer
Corroded iron object, variously labelled 'arrow head' and 'skewer'.
Walking stick. A crooked, knobbly wooden stick about a metre long with a crook at one end for a handle.
Walking stick used with the highland dress given to Lt Col W Lachlan Forbes by Pat MacGregor Ca?
Inscription: the words rough part Strachan ? on original label retyped 5/4/68
Inscription: the words rough part Strachan ? on original label retyped 5/4/68
Police hat. A dark blue cap with a black and white chequered band and a shiny black visor.
Modern (1990s) Grampian police hat.
Barometer. A tall, cylindrical barometer painted black with rings for suspending it.
Ship's barometer, with thermometer, balluster type.
Inscription: Berry & Mackay Aberdeen
Inscription: Berry & Mackay Aberdeen