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Set of plaster casts of seals and gems, set in box with lid, hand-written inscription inside lid.

Robert Wilson's writing set - small table-top desk with carrying handle, 2 glass bottles for ink, drawer at the front, letter opener, blotter, candle holder.

Hand-written label for stone specimen but stone missing. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: Stone from the temple of the ....

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…

Fragment of bitumen cement, with impressions of leaves on one face. Babylon. Inscription: Old label on back: 48

Two bronze arrow heads, pyramidal, socketed, in a glass case.

Glass-fronted wooden box containing 2 iron spear-heads and one iron arrow-head, all tanged. Museum labels on front and back of box. Several labels - front of box, top: 244, on back of box, hand-written label in ink: Two spear and One Arrow Head found…

Marble head of a youth. Dated to 4th century BC.

Folded sheet of paper, when opened reveals window aperture, compass bearings, names. Record of astronomical observations? Inscription: On front, hand-written in ink: Presented by ?? at the College of ?? to Robert Wilson.

Plant specimen wrapped in paper label, taken from Gozo. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: A peculiar shrub grown in the rock at Gozo where you are spun across in a box.