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Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Brown stone ball, very round, with six large flat circular knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4a, 6 knobs, not very prominent.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black, coarse stone ball with six large squarish knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4b, six knobs.
Book Document
Illustrated edition of Byron's poems.
Mace. A large silver ceremonial mace, almost a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace of King's College made by Walter Melville of Aberdeen, 1650.
Mace. Large silver ceremonial mace, about a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace for Marischal College, still used today in the University graduation ceremonies.
Button mould. A piece of slate with two depressions: the outline of a heart with a crown on top, and a disc with a cross in it.
Matrix design: cross & linear design.
Pin. A pin made of bone, about three inches long. A small thistle is carved on one end.
Thistle-headed bone pin. Decoration on thistle head: cross-hatching.
Curtain sample. A rectangular piece of tartan curtain. White background, with narrow and wide vertical bands of light blue and red, and horizontal bands of dark blue and red, light yellow and black.
Tartan curtain from Balmoral Castle; white ground, red, black, yellow, turquoise-blue stripes in warp direction over pink and pale blue stripes in weft direction.
Inscription: Handwritten: Window Curtain Balmor..
Inscription: Handwritten: Window Curtain Balmor..
Carpet sample. A square piece of tartan carpet. Mainly red, with a narrow yellow and white grid pattern, a grid of wide bands of light and dark brown and mossy green, and dark blue, green and teal where the bands intersect.
Tartan-like woven especially for Balmoral Castle. Not tufted. Red, brown, green x 3, heather, olive, blue, dark blue, yellow, white, black-purple.
Inscription: Old label: Piece of Queen Victoria's Bedroom Carpet/Balmoral Palace/October 1858
Inscription: Old label: Piece of Queen Victoria's Bedroom Carpet/Balmoral Palace/October 1858
Bonnet. A white wool bonnet, flat, over a foot wide, with a pompom in the centre.
White wool broad bonnet (beret style). 'Worn by General Sir Alexander Leith' (Reid 1912).