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This poster takes the form of an open letter to the editor of the Aberdeen Observer, and questions Mr Bannerman's credentials and ability to serve as MP.

This article, also published as a flyer by the Tory paper, the Aberdeen Observer, is not exactly in favour of Alexander Bannerman, MP for Aberdeen.

One of two sets of two slits and 2 glass pieces with a third glass piece in the centre which can be rotated by turning a dial which has a pointer attached. The pointer over lies a yellow plastic protractor.

Long thin cone-shaped basket, woven from thin dried twigs, bound together at base with dried grasses and held together at intervals with strips of dried plant material. Used as a mousetrap. Piece of styrofoam inside.

piece of wood with 2 terminals, one at each end and a piece of wire between the two terminals

Plaster moulding of Christ from Monymusk Kirk.
Inscription: Box marked: MONYMUSK CHRIST

Mould for casting spindle whorls, matrix decoration: radial lines & dots. Found at in a dyke at Tarfat, Strichen, by Andrew Fentie.
Inscription: Old label: Amulet, Tarfat

Seventy moulds, for amulets etc., in pottery, one in limestone. One of these is for making amulets of the god Bes, as shown in this photograph.

an electric motor with three step pulley wheel. The mechanism is open and mounted on a wood plinth. The stator is electrically energised and the rotor is connected via two brass commutator brushes

mounted on a wooden base. Originally drove two diameters of belt, but amateurishly modified by the addition of a rough propeller.