Beschreibung:

Lord Scone’s ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’. An interesting and curious collection that came from Scone Palace, Perthshire (the ancient site of the ‘Stone of Scone’) and was assembled between 1840 and 1900. This fascinating collection comprises the following objects: a grape shot mounted on a circular marble base labelled’ marble from the chimney piece of the Governor’s house in Sevastopol’; a fragment of wood labelled, ‘a piece of wood dug up near the Malakoff (Crimea)’; a piece of marble from Maupika (Crimea); a pen rest made of two stags horns with three quill pens; a meerschaum pipe in the form of a bird’s head, the case labelled P. Edwards and Co.; a Victorian infants silk glove with a label saying, ‘glove worn by Margaret Macgregor (afterwards Countess Mansfield) when a baby’; an Australian aboriginal stone hand axe and an Australian aboriginal grinding stone both with labels, ‘found in a mound at Wangery District of Victoria, 1891, Warambool Public Museum’, together with a letter from Hawksdale dated 30th December 1891 describing where the objects were found; an interesting paper scroll on which is the rare photographic record of Lord Scone’s late nineteenth century expedition to the North Pole with a printed label reading,’ I have just returned from the North Pole and I send a bit of it with my photographs’. This collection was auctioned at Christies King Street in May 2007 by permission of the 7th Earl of Mansfield.