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Padlock. A large square padlock, almost a foot wide, with a large key with a circular handle which has a decorative quatrefoil cut out of it. The lock is on a plate with large diamond shaped rivets to affix it to a wall.
With key. Hinged cover to protect key hole broken. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue' and collector's hand-written catalogue (Thomson 1862) state 'Gillespie the Murderer the last confined by it'.
Padlock
Padlock in the form of recumbant dog, complete with key.
Paddle. The end of a wooden paddle, covered in numerous small cracks.
Paddle, from lake dwelling, Loch Kinnord.
Packing Herrings, Holdsgarth, Lerwick
VIEW OF BARRELS ON QUAYSIDE AND SAILING SHIPS SHOWING GIRLS AT WORK IN FOREGROUND
Ox shoes. Two flat oblong pieces of iron with wings at the front to fit an ox hoof. One shoe has a hoof placed inside it.
Two ox shoes, with a broad wing or flange over each side of the toe and an additional flange at the heel.
Ox cart model
Buffalo cart model with detachable buffalo. Models of the implements employed in the rice culture by the Siamese. These models were made to scale by Buddhist priests in Siam.
Outs and Ins, A New Song
This political song in the Aberdeen dialect, pokes fun at the outgoing town council. Corruption was rife - many instances are humorously referred to here. For example, the writer refers to the fiasco of the new harbour in verse 2, and is delighted…