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Powder horn, flattened, to carry gunpowder for a pistol or dag. Decorated with a border and large filled circle of ropelike interlace, geometric metopes, thistles, a stylized head and stylized animals, possibly unicorns, with the letters 'M', 'A' and…

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…

Leather-covered powder flask, pear-like shape with built-in closure.

Powder flask with punched decoration of oak leaves, inscribed, and graded for dram measures.
Inscription: G. & J.W. HAWKSLEY On spout, for dram measures: 2 1/4, 2 1/2, 2 3/4

Powder flask with punched decoration of oak leaves, inscribed, and graded for dram measures

Rectangular pouch. The outside is (loom) beaded with a pattern of diamonds and chevrons in black beads on a background of white beads. The warp is a wide (double?) brown wool and the weft is a tan twisted thread. The wefts all sit atop the warps…

shallow pottery tripod dish, decorated with reddish-brown and black paint on interior and exterior, 'cascabel' feet

tripod dish in pottery, feet in form of birds' heads

Two pieces of pottery (joined together) showing figure of hand playing harp in relief, in baked yellow clay. Inscription: Old labels glued to back: 10 : Two pieces of pottery from Babylon - One showing a hand playing the Harp

Cone of coarse pottery, usually found outside an Etruscan tomb