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Spoon
Spoon made of horn, handle tapered & grooved.
Spoon
Horn spoon, handle shape: tapered & fluted.
Spoon mould. Two pieces of wood hinged together. On one piece is an oval depression, on the other a raised area the same shape.
Wooden mould for making a horn spoon, hinged at the bowl end with a leather thong. There are two spoon moulds in the collection - this one is noted and illustrated in Reid's 1912 catalogue.
Sporran. A red leather flap with a decorative stitched border folds over a mass of brown hair hanging downwards. There are eight tassels of yellow cord arranged in two rows, also hanging downwards from the flap.
Sporran with eight yellow woollen tassels. Reid (1912): 'Worn by Jacobite at battle of Culloden, 1746.'
Spurs. A pair of U shaped steel rods with a leather belt between the ends and a prong with a spiked wheel protruding from the middle.
Pair of spurs, made from steel, 'best hard' inscribed inside the heel, with leather straps. Donor unknown, but old label states: WILSON COLLECTION.
Inscription: Inside heel: BEST HARD Old label: WILSON COLLECTION
Inscription: Inside heel: BEST HARD Old label: WILSON COLLECTION
Staff. A gold-coloured staff about half a metre long, with silver ends and a copper band in the middle.
The Marischal Staff of Scotland in gilded brass with ends in steel. One end has royal arms in relief, the other the arms of the Earls Marischal in relief.
Inscription: royal.arms arms.Earls.Marischal
Inscription: royal.arms arms.Earls.Marischal
Still Pot Head Still
Still pot head, with two tubes or horns, one in copper and one in iron. 'Used by whisky smugglers'.
Stob Spade
Stob-spade in wood, two pronged flat spade. Used for inserting straw in thatching.
Inscription: D
Inscription: D
Stob Thatcher
Type: two pronged.