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Small metal blade with wooden handle, possibly homemade. No label

Dagger with metal blade and woven leather handle. No label.

Metal axe head with short wooden handle. Label attached reads 'The axe to which the label is attached was found in coal cellar at no.1 Cameron Place, Craigs Road, Dumfries and is referred to in the case of John Maxwell Muir'.

Muir was found guilty…

Heavy, spheroid metal ball. No label.

Rope with a looped end. Possibly a noose. No Label.

The cane originally belonged to Dr Richard Bright (1789-1858) who was made licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1816.

Dr Bright has been considered the father of nephrology, the branch of medicine that investigates…

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Rhus Toxicodendron, prepared by a homeopathic chemist Joseph James, Promenade Place, Cheltenham, who had worked for Arthur Guinness M.D. and undertook the company and changed the name to Joseph…

This bottle is empty.

Originating in China and India, it is said that the first European account of this vegetable was in the notes of Marco Polo. Although propagated in the British Isles by the 19th century, the types of rhubarb were often…

This bottle is mostly empty but contains some brown staining.

Rectified Spirit of Wine is simply alcohol. It was used as an ingredient in medical recipes as a means of infusion and dilution.

This bottle comes from Neil Reid, druggist.