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Brass cylindrical stand on 3 feet

Brass cylindrical stand on 3 feet

Brass stand with adjustable section

A brass revolving stand with 2 turning parts both with scales 0- 360 degrees with divisions of 1 degree and labelled every 10.

Set of 24 brass slides with different sized apertures cut from them and painted black. In grooves in a wooden block.

a hollow brass teardrop shaped globe, a cone joined to a hemisphere

Brass collimator with spring shutter on one end.

cylindrical brass base with 3 holes through it.

Branks. Made of iron, a mask that covers the lower part of the face and has a triangle of metal projecting where the mouth would be. It has a heart shape and dots punched out of it, and loops which go over the top and sides of the head.
Branks or gag in iron. Jointed bars enclosed the head and were secured behind, and the projecting plate passed into mouth over the tongue. This specimen was used in the Parish of Dunnotar, Kincardineshire as a form of punishment for female scolds.

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Gag (branks type), with tongue-like projection and curled projections on head
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