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Brass stand on circular brass base with adjustable arm at top holding a brass mounted 6 layered 60 degree prism. The arm can only be adjusted in the angle of the prism, not the height.

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Pop-gun, in wood, having end of piston shredded to fit tube tightly.

Black metal apparatus; two individual scales measuring 'knots' and 'MPH'; scales look like glass thermometers - right hand dial 0-150 and left hand dial 150- 550 mph; converts pressure into speed; serial no 81; ref no 6C/85

Portrait medallion. The face and upper torso of an elderly white man with a curly wig in profile, sculpted in relief, made of a smooth white material. The portrait is on a blue background in an oval shaped dark wooden frame.
Portrait medallion of Thomas Reid, in white on a pale blue background, by James Tassie, 1791. There is an inscription on the shoulder area of the portrait. Proabably made from a soft porcelain paste, mounted in an oval wooden frame, and…

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Portrait of Archibald Simpson. Oil painting of a young looking but balding white man with blue eyes and short wavy reddish brown hair, wearing a black coat and cravat, in an ornate gilded frame.
1/2 portrait, wearing high collar and cravat, dark wide-lapelled coat, balding. Background plain. There are 2 portraits of Simpson by James Giles in the collection (see ABDUA 30147).

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