25 Feb 2018
Part III: 50 interesting objects

Finger mats
There are many intriguing and eye-catching artefacts in our collections.
1. Playing cards
3. Propeller
Featured Place:
Culzean Castle

A propeller from a bi-plane that brought down a Zeppelin near London in 1916
4. Plate warmer
Featured Place:
The Georgian House

A ‘japanned’ plate warmer, made by Pontypool in Wales around 1800
5. Field Marshal John portrait

A portrait of Field Marshal John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, painted by Allan Ramsay
6. Finger mats
Featured Place:
The Hill House

A set of eight hand-painted finger mats, to be placed under finger bowls
7. Standard lamp
Featured Place:
The Hill House

A standard lamp from 1905 designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
8. Easy armchair
Featured Place:
The Hill House

An easy armchair, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh around 1905
9. Centre table
Featured Place:
The Hill House

A centre table by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, inlaid with mother-of-pearl
10. Burns’s first published book
Featured Place:
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

A 1786 copy of ‘Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect’
11. Burns manuscript
Featured Place:
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

A fragment of a manuscript for Burns’s ’Auld Lang Syne’
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