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2 terminals on a wooden base with a Morse code like tapper coming out of one.

a metal switch on a plastic base. The switch has 3 layers to it and 5 terminals which are quite small

Brass cylindrical torpedo style switch. The top domed section is polished brass, the bottom section is glazed black. Underneath there is wording very difficult to make out reading "No. 4 VITREOUS, 1347 184 NO.2660".

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

Wooden sword with two rows of sharks teeth mounted along the edges (one row along each edge). Plaited vegetable fibre through the handle.

Wooden sword with two rows of sharks teeth mounted along the edges (one row along each edge). Plaited vegetable fibre through the handle.

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…

Sword, ?Royal, blade in steel, handle in braided silver wire. Pommel in silver and brass open-work. Sheath in white metal with dragon design in brass. Collected in Tibet during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4.

Sword, blade in steel, curved, double-edged. Hilt in horn.