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Buddha statuette
Silver image of the Buddha in earth-pointing attitude on a throne/dais.
bugles
Specimens of blue glass bugles (long beads) and tiny white beads, still connected by thread, in a glass test-tube, stoppered with cork and mounted on a card label: 'Glass Bugles from a Mummy'. Inscription: Glass Bugles from a Mummy
Bull harness. A large iron collar with chains.
Bull jougs, a restraining harness, made of iron.
Bullet mould. A tongs like device with half a spherical mould on the end of each arm, with a spherical lead bullet.
Bullet mould for making spherical bullets. Initials 'WD' on the handle. Old label: '465 1'.
Inscription: On handle: WD
Inscription: On handle: WD
Bullet mould. Two brass bars with six half spherical depressions, hinged together at the end. A spherical lead bullet sits in one of the depressions.
Brass mould, used in making six spherical leaden bullets (looks like nutcrackers with 6 matrices, each for a round shot). Steel pin and fastening hook. One lead shot accompanies. Scarred by hammermarks from casting shot.
Bullet moulds. A tongs like device with a box on the ends.
One matrix and inset for conical bullet and one matrix for spherical shot. Looks like a pair of heavy pliers, closed by an iron lever with two holes for pouring in lead while casting.
Inscription: on handle: No 25
Inscription: on handle: No 25
Bunker lamp. A small tin lamp shaped like a watering can, with a long handle that comes vertically up over the centre. The spout has a thick bundle of wick coming out of it.
An early type of oil lamp, made of tin, to burn naptha, a flammable oil distilled from the oil shales of central Scotland. The inner, lidded, cylindical vessel holds the naptha and has a spout which holds the wick. The outer shell is to catch…