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Man trap. An iron trap with sharp teeth on hinged brackets which are snapped shut by a leaf spring. The leaf spring has part of a chain at one end.
Man trap, in iron, nineteenth century, type: gin trap. Would have been set, hidden in undergrowth, to deter and catch poachers. The jaws are set open by the shank of metal, and when the trap is sprung, by stepping on it, the toothed jaws snap…
Man trap
Man trap, in iron, nineteenth century, type: gin trap; Would have been set, hidden in undergrowth, to deter and catch poachers; The jaws are set open by the shank of metal, and when the trap is sprung, by stepping on it, the toothed jaws snap shut,…
Man on horse
Bronze figure of a man on a rearing horse, man holding a spear in his right hand. The horse sits on an oval-shaped base, and is sitted with a bridle, reins, a decorative rug and saddle with hand-hold. The male figure is wearing a circular cap on his…
mallet
Wooden mallet, given by an Arab to Rev. Professor John Forbes, on a visit to the valley of the Tombs of the Kings, near Thebes in 1839.
mail.coat armour
Collected during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4.