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2 string (wire) sonometer with screw tension. Dovetailed box with 4 sets of ornate slots between bridges. Later addition of small brass pulley on one end and brass hook on other to take wire with weights. Probably purchased by Prof Thomson.

Open circuitry for probably a soldering pen. 3 controls on control panel: pen heat (scale 0 to 9), pen zero and an on switch and an off switch.

Solar pyrheliometer. A large instrument made of steel, brass and wood. Three small fan shaped steel plates which can be rotated are positioned over a long brass cylinder which extends from a squat wooden cylinder, suspended in a ring mount allowing the apparatus to be rotated in multiple directions.
Silver disk pyreheliometer for measuring the power in solar radiation. Instrument purchased from Smithsonian Institution who developed the device. Can be seen in use in the photograph of the total solar eclipse of 1927 taken on top of the Cromwell…

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Socketed axe heads. Three bronze axe heads, about three inches long, hollow inside with wide squarish openings at the base. One axe head is covered with green rust and has a loop near the base.

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Socketed axe head, decoration: Ridge (cast). Type: Rectangular (Coles), Portree [variant Kalemouth] (S&B). This axe has been made into a snuff box sometime in the 19th century (probably by the finder). Inscription engraved on lid.
Inscription: On…

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These adverts which appeared The Workers' Herald, show how a major theme of socialism was education. Socialists were encouraged to read, learn and educate themselves.

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Pears soap.

Snuff mulls. Nine snuff mulls in various shapes: boxes made of wood and inlaid horn and ivory, spiral shaped horns, a miniature wooden shoe, a horn with the tip carved into a monster's head, and a repurposed bronze axe head.

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Snuff mull. Small silver box, with a bulbous tub shape. The lid is engraved with a rose and the inscription William Forbes of Blacktoun, the body engraved with a coat of arms with three horse heads and a crescent moon on it, a knight's helmet with a tree on top, all surrounded by foliage. Above is the inscription EUIR ESCO.
Silver snuff mull with a barrel-shaped body, of Forbes of Blacktoun, a prisoner at Shirramuir. The lid is engraved with a Jacobite rose and the owner's name 'William Forbes of Blacktoun'. Engraving on the front of the snuff mull shows the coat of…

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Snuff mull. Small lidded wooden box with a bulbous tub shape, a silver band and hinge at the opening and a silver circle on the lid inscribe ROB GIB'S CONTRACT.
Snuff mull, with a black wooden barrel-shaped body, silver rim, mounts and hinges. The lid is inscribed with two entwined hearts and 'Rob Gib's Contract' (Jacobite passwords). This mull may have been made by Ferguson of Rothiemay (there is a similar…

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