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Pistols. A pair of elaborately decorated, gold coloured pistols with steel fittings. The pistols have lemon shaped butts and are decorate all over with engraved roses, interlace, scrolls and straight lines.
Pair Scottish lemon-butted pistols or dags (right and left), in brass, with steel lock, ramrod and clip. Lock type: early snaphaunce. Butt shape: globose. Engraved decoration of roses and interlace. The pistols are thought to have been made by…

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Pistol. A very small, simple pistol with a steel barrel and a wooden handle.
Percussion pistol with a steel barrel, formerly used at marriages in Aberdeenshire.

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Percussion pistol with a steel barrel, formerly used at marriages in Aberdeenshire.

Pipe. Small clay tobacco pipe, stained yellow and brown.
Clay pipe, name stamped on bowl, see inscription. Received from King's College Library, probably from Dr W Douglas Simpson, Librarian.
Inscription: old label: Fairy Pipe , stamped on bowl: SWINYARD

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Pipe. An ornate pipe, consisting of a white cup gripped by a hand with a shirt cuff joined on to the handle. The cup is labelled Presented by Queen Victoria to Her Commissioner Dr. Profeit at Balmoral. The pipe has a black leather case lined with green silk.
Pipe made in meerschaum in the shape of a hand holding an egg. The white egg forms the bowl of the pipe and the arm and wrist (honey-coloured meerschaum), the stem is made of amber. The handwritten label reads ' Presented by Queen Victoria to her…

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Tobacco pipe, used by Kaffirs. In Knight's manuscript (MS M106, 1840): 'Tobacco pipe and Segar Pipe of Steatite ... presented Augt 1821, by Mr Thom, African Missionary'.

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Tobacco pipe, used by Kaffirs. In Knight's manuscript (MS M106, 1840): 'Tobacco pipe and Segar Pipe of Steatite ... presented Augt 1821, by Mr Thom, African Missionary'.

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Tobacco pouch, pipe and case, used by females, from the islands of Japan.

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Panel pipes carved out of argillite, a dark slate, comparatively soft when mined which hardens after exposure to the air Haida style, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Made for sale to Europeans, most of the pipes illustrate sailors of the…
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