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Banff Local Characters
The New Shaver lampoons Banff and its political tendencies. The New Shaver professed to be apolitical and made fun of Whigs, Tories and Radicals as is illustrated in this example.
Bank note. A tattered paper bank note for one pound with creases and tears from being folded many times.
One pound note, framed and glazed. Aberdeen, Montrose, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Exchange & Deposit Banks one pound note No13959 Maberly and Co Aberdeen. Maberly & Co, a linen manufacturing firm whose bank failed in 1832.
Bannerman and Reform for Ever
In this poster, the Tory opposition suggest that Alexander Bannerman, the Whig candidate in the 1832 election, is no Friend of the People.
Bannock spade
Bannock spade with a heart-shaped blade, used to turn bannocks, scones and oatcakes while cooking on an iron girdle or griddle.
Bannock stone. A large piece of brown stone, with a circular depression carved out of it. The base is flat allowing the stone to stand with the circular depression upright.
Bannock stane, a D-shaped and flattened piece of sandstone, for baking bannocks of oats, barley or peasemeal and scones. This stone comes from Sauchenbog, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire.
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire from the Western Front
bark.cloth tapa
Book of South Pacific bark cloth reputedly collected by Captain Cook.
