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Crusie Lamp Oil Lamp
Crusie, or oil lamp, with lid, drip catcher & swivel hook. Illustrated in Ogston (1884-1929) Volume 1.
Crusie lamp. Two leaf shaped iron dishes fastened to a handle with a hook. The upper dish is lidded and hangs on a ratchet above the lower dish.
Crusie, or oil lamp.
Crusie mould. A large round lump of stone with a deep leaf shaped depression in it, and the date 1745 carved into it.
Water rounded boulder, carved to make a crusie mould, type: long-nosed crusie. The date 1745 is carved on either side of the mould.
Inscription: 1745
Inscription: 1745
cup
Glass cup with rim.
cup
Horn drinking cup. Tooled leather case with retaining straps for lid. Rim decorated with woven coloured leather strips.
cup dish
Shallow red dish, samian ware? Inscription: handwritten circular label on side: W
Cup. A fat silver cup with a stem and scalloped decoration around the base and foot.
Made by Roger Booth of Aberdeen, and given to William Machray by his students.
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Cup. A lump of brown rock with black veins, with a cup shaped hollow carved out.
Cup in steatite, roughly triangular in shape with unperforated handle. Has staining from its use as a lamp. See also ABDUA 17419, one of a pair from a defended settlement on Damil Hill at Asloon, Alford. The Statistical Account says that the…
Cup. A plain cup made of a large piece of horn, with a glass bottom.
Horn cup, eighteenth century, with glass bottom. Allows the drinker to see if money ('the king's shilling') was hidden in the ale.