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four armed needle wheel

a brass axle with four needles attached to the centre in a swastika shape

Four men with large bellies, large eyes and protruding lower lips carry full sacks into an office and say Mr Mayor, we have brought great quantities of corn to market and no body will buy, we request your advice what to do with it. The mayor, a smug looking figure in a red and gold coat, replies Do with it? why, as you have done, Keep it!! His assistant holds up a paper saying Ordered the price of bread to be lowered one half tomorrow. Out the window can be seen a cart piled with sacks labelled To go back no purchasers and a labourer saying Dang it, if I did not think it would come to this at last.

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Four stones with natural holes through them, one beige and rectangular, two orange and grey, and a large grey stone with a cord through the hole.

four wooden plates

grouped for convenience, four wooden plates of irregular shape. Holes are possibly for points of suspension in centre of gravity experiments. Different woods and various quality of finish

fragment

Marble fragment with Arabic name Madha-Ibd-Ilmarka. Old label in ink on side of stone: Asia 3

Tags: Madha-Ibd-Ilmarka., marble

Fragment of an alabaster vase (rim sherd) wrapped in hand-written label. Label also mentions a 'curious white stone' but this is missing. Inscription: Hand-written label in ink: Broken mouth of an alabaster Vase & a curious white stone found among…

Tags: Alabaster, fragment vase, Robert Wilson

fragment inscription

Limestone fragment with hieroglyphics depicting the name of the pharaoh Khufu in the oval cartouche and the symbols of upper and lower Egypt above it. Only the names of royalty were placed in cartouches, which represent both the protection and the…

Tags: fragment inscription