Browse Items (682 total)

  • Collection: Encyclopaedia of the North East

Snuff mulls. Nine snuff mulls in various shapes: boxes made of wood and inlaid horn and ivory, spiral shaped horns, a miniature wooden shoe, a horn with the tip carved into a monster's head, and a repurposed bronze axe head.

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Powder horns. Two flattened horns decorated with incised rosettes and knotwork, with brass spouts.

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Grave goods. A miniature bronze cauldron covered with green rust and decorated with punched dots, and a small opaque blue glass object shaped like a lens.

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Bellarmine wine jar. A fat mottled brown ceramic bottle with a handle, a rose stamped on the middle, and on the neck a face of an elderly bearded man with bushy eyebrows.
Bellarmine wine jar; glaze colour, dark & light tan (mottled), rose medallion & bearded caricature stamped on the side (a Protestant caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine.)

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Nails. Two large iron nails with a tapering square cross section, one about a foot long and the other half as long.

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Quaichs. Three silver quaichs, with the initials of their owners on the handles and simple line decorations. The cups are decoratively segmented in a manner reminiscent of wooden quaichs.

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Quaichs. Two wooden quaichs with silver on the handles and rim, and the owner's initials. They are made of curved triangular segments of wood fastened together with bands on the outside.

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Police batons. Four wooden police batons, left to right: a baton painted red and white painted ribbon spiralling up it inscribed Fyvie Constable, a plain wood baton with black painted ends with a painted red and gold crown and the inscription VR 329, a baton painted black with gold ribbons, the red coat of arms of Aberdeen and the inscription Aberdeen Railway Police and a turned handle, a plain wooden baton with a turned handle.

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Manacles. Three sets of iron and steel manacle, left to right: large manacles for the ankles with a chain between them, small snip manacles with a hinge rather than a chain, regular handcuffs with a chain between them.

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Plough tools. Left to right: a large, rusty spanner shaped tool, an iron muzzle shaped plough sock, and a rusty iron bar with a pointed tip.

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