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VIEW OF THREE WOMEN BURNING KELP WITH RUINS OF BIRSAY PALACE IN BACKGROUND

Buttons. 11 small, stud shaped silver buttons with roses engraved on them.
Eleven silver buttons (5 large and 6 small), with looped backs and with the Jacobite rose engraved on the front. There were originally 15 buttons in gift, but 4 were returned to Mr Mearns at his request to add to the Highland Dress of a nephew.

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Cabinet belonging to James Grant Bey, containing his scarab collection. Each scarab is mounted and the collection is ordered in chronological sequence.

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Cedar wood cabinet with 9 drawers containing plaster casts of gems executed by Bartolomeo and Pietro Paoletti, No 49 Piazza Di Spagna, Roma.. Three hundred casts depict Roman History, in Drawers I to VI, 26 casts from work of Canova in Drawer VII, 25…

A large, symmetrical neoclassical mansion with columns supporting the roof of the porch.
Cairness House, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire, south front. A red and white border has been added to the original photo.

Cairngorm gem. Polished black gem, about 9 inches tall, the shape of a hexagonal prism with a pointed top.
Cairngorm 'gem', a yellow-brown smoky quartz found in the Cairngorm mountain region.

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Calabash gourd, with wooden handle, decorated on body with covering of cowrie shells and row of blue beads.
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