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Watch. Small, rusty pocket watch with a melted clockface. A label is attached which says: Bracelet watch found in wreckage after troop train disaster at Gretna Green 1915.
Remains of a soldier's wrist watch, found in wreckage of troop train disaster at Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, 1905. Winding knob on side is visible, glass front is molten, no straps remain. Old hand-written label attached.
Watch. Tarnished silver pocket watch with copper hands and white clockface with roman numerals.
Silver pocket watch, quite thick and rounded, wound by a key and with Roman numerals. Made in Banff, Banffshire in the 19th century by John Wood, a watch and clockmaker. The back is hinged and the makerÔÇÖs name and trade is written inside the back…
Weights. A set of five small dull brass weights, tub shaped, in decreasing size. The weights fit inside each other and the largest has a lid.
Set of 5 brass weights in a brass container with a lid.
Whistle. A small silver cylindrical whistle with a chain and clip. The whistle is inscribed METROPOLITAN PATENT, ABERDEENSHIRE CONSTABULARY, HUDSON & CO, 13 BARR ST, BIRMINGHAM.
Whistle and chain, used by Aberdeen Constabulary 1906. Type: metropolitan patent.
Wine bottle. A light green glass bottle with a boar's head and the letter E surrounded by a ring on the lower body.
Green glass bottle, long-necked, with seal on body of the bottle.
Inscription: seal: boar's head and letter E - for Elphinstone of Sanday
Inscription: seal: boar's head and letter E - for Elphinstone of Sanday
Witch Stone Amulet
Stone, pierced at one end.
Inscription: handwritten in ink on the stone: Buchan 1882
Inscription: handwritten in ink on the stone: Buchan 1882
Worming gear. A black metal pot with a pipe coming out of the top horizontally, and then into a downward spiral with four turns before straightening put horizontally and going through a broken piece of wood.
Worming equipment, used by whisky smugglers in Aberdeenshire.
Yard and ell measure. A long wooden bar with projections at either end so that something a yard long would fit in the space between the projections. There are markings along the bar, and brass plates on the side at either end.
Measures an ell and imperial yard each in 1/2,1/4,1/16 and 1/32nd parts.
