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Stone image, 'Granaptic God of Luck' from the ruins of the Great Temple of Majoput, Java. See Thomson Catalogue, 1847-1848, notes on pp20-21:' Idols from Java'. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'Was at Museum Entrance, now in New Museum'

Gold medal awarded to Alexander Thomson of Banchory-Devenick 1834. Inscription: Highlands and Agricultural Society of Scotland report on settling crofters on waste ground

From the 'Hillside, Bothy Brig' hoard. Old label: 'Found in 1837 in making Hill road from Hillside to Bothie brig - about middle of Wood Fence by roadside & near a large flat rock inside of wood.' Inscription: Obv: +MARIA.D.G.REGINA.SCOTO [ ] Rev: […

Bronze Ewart Park sword, part of a hoard of 4 swords found together. 19th-century inscription on blade at hilt. Inscription: ONE OF FOUR FOUND IN A PEAT MOSS NEAR HADDO HOUSE AND GIVEN BY LORD ABERDEEN TO MR THOMSON BANCHORY 27th SEPT 1858

Kris with ornate, double-edged, wavy, damascened blade bearing figure of head of lion or dragon. Carved ivory handle and red painted wooden scabbard.

Black and white engraving of an oval bust portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, in an internal oval frame with inscription. The engraver Thomas de Leu was from Flanders but worked mainly in Paris.

Playbill for Rob Roy, Captain Stevens, Man in the Moon, Harlequin lunatic & the Evening Star

a collection of pointolite arc lamps. Seven lamps in six boxes in one cardboard container. There appears to be two types, 100V-250V 150CP AC BC and 100V-250V 100CP BC gas filled. Marked 'Royal Ediswan'; perhaps projection lamps

Descriptions of Aberdeen council business almost fifty years before the 1st Reform Act was passed.

one of six telephones. GEC pulse dial telephone Aus Pat 111251 Brit Pat 518721