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Iron casing with lens and pin hole aperture at either end. 2 other holes on top and bottom.

In glass case with black painted wood. Perfect order. Case key in bottom. Another key with square hole and ivory disc handle unlikely to belong with this item.

Children’s and Household Tales’ by the Brothers Grimm, 2nd edition

These excerpts come from a record of municipal affairs in Aberdeen since the Burgh Reform Act was passed in 1833.

James Adam, the author, was the Radical editor of the Aberdeen Herald. He had attended a conference in Birmingham in 1842 which adopted the six main Chartist points - even though conference refused to call itself Chartist. The main points were:…

The poster, written by James Adam, Radical editor of the Aberdeen Herald, lets the public know that Mr Duncan is not entitled to appropriate the public land at the Links as part of the new railway line.

An exposure of Mr Duncan, who has undervalued the worth of the Links, part of which he wished to be used for a new railway line.

In this excerpt from his essay, The Knowledge Qualification, James Adam, editor of the Radical Aberdeen newspaper, The Aberdeen Herald, argues that education and civil rights are vital for all people. Instead of the £10 voting qualification, people…