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Sovereign scales. Two small brass scales for weighing sovereigns, one folds up in a long wooden box.
Crosscut saw. A large saw about half a metre long.
Nineteenth century crosscut saw, from Aberdeenshire.
Inscription: Old label: 571
Inscription: Old label: 571
Adze. An adze with a wide, flat rusty iron head and a wooden handle.
Hand adze, perhaps used by coopers to strip bark off trees. One of a number of items (eg ABDUA 15895 to 15915) donated by Mrs Argo of Aberdeen, some of which were used on the farm of Darnabo, near Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. Most of the items date to…
Measuring ladle. A small metal mug shaped measure with a large handle.
Measure, mug-like shape with handle, capacity 1 pint.
Inscription: 1 pint
Inscription: 1 pint
Measure pot. A metal jug with a fat body and five incised horizontal lines on it. The letters I G M P are stamped on the handle.
Aberdeen 'pot belly' measure pot, decoration: 5 incised bands, on base: spiral.
Inscription: on handle: IGMP SJ
Inscription: on handle: IGMP SJ
Axe head. A large flat iron axe head of one piece with the blade projecting horizontally from a socketed area.
Axe head from a woodman's axe, no haft.
Cheese thermometer. A pointed glass cylinder with mercury at the bottom and the numbers 0 to 240 in increments of ten marked up it. In red is marked Zero at 0 degrees, Freezing at 32 degrees, Churning at 62 degrees, Cheese at 85 degrees, Pasteurising at 152 degrees and Water Boil at 212 degrees.
Thermometer in cylindrical case.
Scales Weight Set
Set of scales, with brass pans and brass weights, in a wooden box. Used by Rev Alexander John Forsyth for weighing the ingredients used to make a detonating powder in 1805-6. Forsyth invented the percussion lock for fire arms, and his experiments…
Gas meter. A dark metal bucket with a box at the top which has dials in it.
Gas meter, with two dials:1000s, 10000s.
Measure pot. A dark heavy metal jug with a slightly fat body.
A pewter Aberdeen pot-bellied measure, or 'tappit hen' for liquid, capacity is 375 ml (in Imperial measures 0.76 pints) to the inner rim.