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Blade of a double-edged sword with signature on fullers and ricasso. See museum's Accessions Book, 1941-1944, 1946-1963, p98: 'Sword Blade (Old). L 1050 B35 Found in Holyrood Chapel wall.' Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Sword found in Wall of Holyrood…

Blue-glazed shabti, uninscribed. Described by Thomson as 'Blue Porcelain figure of mummy.'

Blue-glazed shabti, inscribed on front. Described by Thomson as ' Blue Porcelain figure of a mummy.'

Glass test-tube, stoppered with cork, containing sample of beads still strung together, mounted on a card label: 'Cloth of Beads from Mummy'. Inscription: Cloth of Beads from Mummy

Specimens of blue glass bugles (long beads) and tiny white beads, still connected by thread, in a glass test-tube, stoppered with cork and mounted on a card label: 'Glass Bugles from a Mummy'. Inscription: Glass Bugles from a Mummy

Old Scottish door latch and knocker, Thomson's Catalogue (Small General Catalogue of Banchory House Museum 1862): 'from Mrs Macvicar'.

Specimen of grey ash, in a glass test-tube stoppered with pink cotton-wool, mounted on a card label: 'Ashes which now fill amphorae of Wine Cellar of Arius Diomedes, Pompei'. Inscription: Ashes which now fill amphorae of Wine Cellar of Arius…

Spindle whorl, in stone. Labelled as 'Stone ring found at Raby in the parish of Waksala, three miles NW from Upsala. Presented [to Alexander Thomson] by Mr Nissen per Rev Professor Lumsden, Oct 1861.'

Specimen of ash in a glass test-tube, with cork stopper, mounted on a card label: 'Finest shower of ash, Pompei'. Inscription: Hand-written label: Finest shower of ash Pompei

Specimen of balsam, in a glass test-tube, stoppered with cork and mounted on a card label: 'Balsam used in embalming by Egyptians, from a Mummy'. Inscription: Balsam used in embalming by Egyptians, from a Mummy