The following items have been found in miscellaneous sources but do not appear in the CUL catalogue.
National Archives workbook 39/8 page 103
In amidst the records of one of his tours as Inspector of Ancient Monuments is the following:
Bt of Rushworth [illegible] Durham 1 carved chair £5 oak table 5 [total] £10
This is undated but probably occurred in 1889.
National Archives workbook 39/15 page 21
It is possible that all of these are listed in the catalogue of the second collection but so differently that they cannot be identified easily.
Bought of J.C. Duff 14 Queens Ferry St Aug 28
1 old Scotch lamp burners 15
1 tea caddy Preston Pans 15
2 drinking mugs brown centre burners 5 6
1 Plate Preston pans marked with a [illegible] red black & red & green 7 6
3 engraved horn [this is Add.9455vol2_p97 /2-4]
the preston pans censer mark 1750
1 [illegible] cream jug [illegible] 7
1 Preston pans Jug 5
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5 10
3 Preston pans plaques 1 5 [this is Add.9455vol2_p97 /12-14]
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6 15
Note that these appear to have been bought in 1884, but only one item is listed as being bought from Duff in that year
National Archives workbook 39/15 page 22
August 20
Bt of Butti 7 Queen St Edinburgh
1 Italian [illegible] 15
1 iron sugar tongs [illegible] 5
1 Sunderland mug with frog & [illegible] 10
1 iron spinning wheel from James Drummond RSA 2 0 0
1 iron Roast Jack from Leven in Fifeshire [this is Add.9455vol2_p100 /2, again this is the only item listed in catalogue of second collection]
1 Scotch communion cup [drawing] 2 offertory plate pewter with marks 1 10 [Possibly Add.9455vol2_p241 /1-3]
1 Tappit Hen [illegible] for whiskey scotch Ayrshire 1.0.0
2 [illegible] 16
1 holed stone
1 Ducal brooch taken by me 1.0.0
2 Preston pans [illegible] representing a highlander and fish woman 2.10.6
1 Scotch pewter [illegible] 0.6.0
1 Scotch padlock [drawing] 10
1 Scotch candlestick iron [drawing] 10
National Archives workbook 39/16 page 134-135
[Note some of the items listed on these pages have been matched to items listed in the catalogue of the second collection, but not the ones listed here]
Wooden harrow as used at the present time by the crofters at Barvas Isle of Lewis
Turf cutter obtained at Isle of Lewis peat cutter
National Archives workbook 39/16 page 169
Box sent from Aberdeen to Rushmore packed with following
... Irish bag-pipes
... 1 ring of withes [sic] from Strathcarron
... 1 bundle of sticks used with poor man's candle stick
National Archives workbook 39/16 page 171-172, 175
These two pages appear to be a list of models which Pitt-Rivers was causing to be made, it is likely that some of them at least ended up in the Pitt-Rivers collection at Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. The following is a transcription of the full pages:
Page 171
In all cases where possible to make models take necessary dimensions
Model of Simgady [?] or circular basket boat 145 used in the [illegible, possibly 'country'] India all dimensions and particulars
Game (boat shaped) with holes Straits Settlements [Drawing]
(5) Torch stand
Next Rice Pounder
(4) large model minus figs.
Rat-trap wooden
Cocoa- [insert] nut [end insert] scraper wood
[Drawing] actual size to [illegible] model from
Malay Harrow on Cocoa nut scraper
Malay Plough in [illegible]
Damar Holder next to Box Construction
Malay Bellows [Drawing]
[2 pages of Inspector of Ancient Monument drawings]
Page 175:
Bamboo baskets used in the armies for caping with Larut Perak [Drawing]
Buffalo Cart wheel-less [Drawing]
(1) Malay game played with [illegible] seeds "ChongKah"
Next object in wood what name and use
Tools used by Chinese [illegible] for breaking down earth Larut Perak
Pieces of granite for pounding
Hoe called "Changkol" (at end)
? Instrument used for planting rice
(2) Instrument used for pounding close to wheel-less bullock cart (coloured)
(3) Malay chess [?] bound with men [?]
Gambling instrument take dimensions for model
Chinese cards playing Genl. to get if possible
Wooden clogs close to model of plough
Draw model of boat with two rudders one each side
Draw two models of plough one on wall and large one if possible
Illustrations of these pages shown here
AP October 2011
