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Snuff Mull
Made from two horn tips bound together with brass. Lid decoration: concentric circles. The base mount has what appears to be a T and another letter, possibly a D, engraved on it.
Inscription: Base mount: T D ?
Inscription: Base mount: T D ?
Snuff mull. A an oval shaped silver box set between the horns of a ram. The box has a thistle engraved on it and the initials PW.
Made from ram's horns and silver. Engraved with a thistle and letters P W.
Inscription: P W thistle
Inscription: P W thistle
Snuff mull. A small spiral shaped horn with a wooden top and leather cord.
Snuff horn with a lid in cork. Shape : curled. Old label states that this horn was made by one of the survivors of the battle of Culloden, possibly in one of the houses on the Muir of Culloden.
Inscription: Old label
Inscription: Old label
Snuff mull. Small lidded wooden box with a bulbous tub shape, a silver band and hinge at the opening and a silver circle on the lid inscribe ROB GIB'S CONTRACT.
Snuff mull, with a black wooden barrel-shaped body, silver rim, mounts and hinges. The lid is inscribed with two entwined hearts and 'Rob Gib's Contract' (Jacobite passwords). This mull may have been made by Ferguson of Rothiemay (there is a similar…
Snuff mull. Small silver box, with a bulbous tub shape. The lid is engraved with a rose and the inscription William Forbes of Blacktoun, the body engraved with a coat of arms with three horse heads and a crescent moon on it, a knight's helmet with a tree on top, all surrounded by foliage. Above is the inscription EUIR ESCO.
Silver snuff mull with a barrel-shaped body, of Forbes of Blacktoun, a prisoner at Shirramuir. The lid is engraved with a Jacobite rose and the owner's name 'William Forbes of Blacktoun'. Engraving on the front of the snuff mull shows the coat of…
Socketed Axe Head Axe Axe Head Snuff Mull
Socketed axe head, decoration: Ridge (cast). Type: Rectangular (Coles), Portree [variant Kalemouth] (S&B). This axe has been made into a snuff box sometime in the 19th century (probably by the finder). Inscription engraved on lid.
Inscription: On…
Inscription: On…
Solar pyrheliometer. A large instrument made of steel, brass and wood. Three small fan shaped steel plates which can be rotated are positioned over a long brass cylinder which extends from a squat wooden cylinder, suspended in a ring mount allowing the apparatus to be rotated in multiple directions.
Silver disk pyreheliometer for measuring the power in solar radiation. Instrument purchased from Smithsonian Institution who developed the device. Can be seen in use in the photograph of the total solar eclipse of 1927 taken on top of the Cromwell…