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Black leather belt, decorated with serrated white leather insertion, black enamelled studs and embossed geometrical designs, with a money pocket.

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Black cylindrical coffee container with sliding plate to cover entrance. Rod through centre with sharp end.

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Scare-devil in cloth and wood. Used to scare away evil eye from bee hives.

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Wooden 'reaping hand' used when shearing with a hook. Colour: brown. Shape: pin, narrow wing, 4 holes, oval.

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Spindle whorl, decorated with floral and geometric designs, and figures of birds, in boxwood. Used in spinning.

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Beech wood bowl, used by travellers for holding cheese

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Spoon, engraved with figure of double-headed eagle and human face, in boxwood. Made in prison at Corfu, Macedonia.

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Spoon, engraved with floral and geometrical designs, in beech wood. From the Pindus Mountains, Greece.

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Spoon in wood, handle carved with design of animal (fish?). Made by monks on Mount Athos, Greece.

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Iron muzzle, half circle with 6 u-shaped spikes. For calves, to make cow kick when they suck and so wean them by force. All over Albania.
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