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Knife or fir gully, with an iron blade and a manufactured wooden handle held in place with a decorated brass ferrule (decoration: incised bands & rings). The knife was used to cut fir candles, strips of wood from pine trees.

Horn spoon, handle shape: tapered & fluted.

Wooden mould for making a horn spoon, hinged at the bowl end with a leather thong. There are two spoon moulds in the collection - this one is noted and illustrated in Reid's 1912 catalogue.

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

Brass mould, used in making six spherical leaden bullets (looks like nutcrackers with 6 matrices, each for a round shot). Steel pin and fastening hook. One lead shot accompanies. Scarred by hammermarks from casting shot.

One matrix and inset for conical bullet and one matrix for spherical shot. Looks like a pair of heavy pliers, closed by an iron lever with two holes for pouring in lead while casting.
Inscription: on handle: No 25

Wooden bowl, turned out of a single piece of wood, repaired with iron clamps and hoop. Used for making brose (boiling water, milk or a mixture of both poured over oatmeal and stirred).

Food ladle, in wood.

Threshing-flail in wood with joint in leather. Used in beating out seed.

Shovel, made from beech wood. It has a scooped blade for shovelling grain and a short handle with a looped hand-hold. Museum's Slip Catalogue: 'used on the Cowbog Farm, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, from about 1900 to 1960'.