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Piece of dark green glass, mounted on a card label: 'Ancient Green Glass very like the Genoa Vase'. Inscription: Ancient Green Glass very like the Genoa Vase

Specimen of ash in a glass test-tube, with cork stopper, mounted on a card label: 'Finest shower of ash, Pompei'. Inscription: Hand-written label: Finest shower of ash Pompei

Spindle whorl, in stone. Labelled as 'Stone ring found at Raby in the parish of Waksala, three miles NW from Upsala. Presented [to Alexander Thomson] by Mr Nissen per Rev Professor Lumsden, Oct 1861.'

Three lumps of lava, mounted on a card label: 'Lava used in building houses in Pompei'. Thomson's MS Catalogue adds: 'A proof that Vesuvius a volcano before AD 79'. Inscription: Lava used in building houses in Pompei

Specimen of grey ash, in a glass test-tube stoppered with pink cotton-wool, mounted on a card label: 'Ashes which now fill amphorae of Wine Cellar of Arius Diomedes, Pompei'. Inscription: Ashes which now fill amphorae of Wine Cellar of Arius…

Old Scottish door latch and knocker, Thomson's Catalogue (Small General Catalogue of Banchory House Museum 1862): 'from Mrs Macvicar'.

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

Glass test-tube, stoppered with cork, containing sample of beads still strung together, mounted on a card label: 'Cloth of Beads from Mummy'. Inscription: Cloth of Beads from Mummy

Blue-glazed shabti, inscribed on front. Described by Thomson as ' Blue Porcelain figure of a mummy.'

Blue-glazed shabti, uninscribed. Described by Thomson as 'Blue Porcelain figure of mummy.'