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a bent tube with a spout attached, joining one end in a narrow angle

Bannock spade with a heart-shaped blade, used to turn bannocks, scones and oatcakes while cooking on an iron girdle or griddle.

Bread or bannock spade, in iron. Blade has 'tear drop' shape cut out at centre.

Bread-stamp in wood. Carved by Monks on Mount Athos, Greece, and found in every Greek household. On main side, two compartments for Jesus Christ, one for nine archangels and one for Virgin Mary. The small stamp is a duplicate of the compartment…

Oval breast-plate in gilded brass, 'worn on the sword belt of an officer in the Royal Aberdeen Volunteers (1794-1802)' (Reid 1912).
Inscription: Aberdeen coat of arms BON ACCORD | ABERDEEN

Breast Plates. These two objects, each known as a civa vono vono in Fiji, was worn on ceremonial occasions as a sign of rank. No 3 is made of trochus shell, sperm whale tooth and cotton. Cotton was not grown in Fiji and would have been imported from…