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Iron frying pan, or girdle, with spout or lip. Used for baking bannocks, scones and oatcakes, and also for frying or melting fat, perhaps for tallow candles, the lip allowing liquids to be poured out. Handle allowing girdle to be hung over the fire…

Wooden funnel, for filling whisky bottles.

Sample of small pieces of fur sewn together. From Kastoria, W. Macedonia. Hasluck: 'Kastoria has an almost unique industry. Snippets of furs are bought from the workrooms of Europe and sent to Kastoria, where the unworn parts are cut up by skilful…

two pieces of fur and fleece, possibly lamb and artificial fur. For stroking glass rods to create electrostatic charge

Gaelic prayer book, shown here with a key. See extract of letter in Thomson file: Letter from the Rev Mr Watson (F C) Langholm 1863: 'I told you that I possessed the 'Book of Power' wherewith a wizard or 'wise man' in the island of Lewis held in…

Mouth gag in iron.

on a triangular wooden base with three adjustable feet. Two vertical wooden circular frames separated by four brass rods, hold wire coils connected to four brass terminals. In the middle a turned wood pedestal holds a horizontal circular scale of…

Has one coil forming a vertical loop. There is a screw terminal at the zenith possible for suspending a magnetic pointer. In the centre is a +/- 90 degree dial on the horizontal wooden shelf. All are mounted on an brass pedestal with ebonite base…

mounted on three brass adjustable feet, a sub rectangular black wooden base holds two upright hinged wood plates. The plates each have terminals connecting to flat coils. On one side is a viewing window into the centre of the plates. A hollow rod…