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

A private buyer has told us he owns the following carved bird figure from New Guinea which obviously formed part of the second collection but which was not documented in the catalogue volumes. It was obtained by Pitt-Rivers from Webster (the dealer) in August 1897. 

New Guinea bird figure Webster August 1897

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Guinea bird figure Webster August 1897

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AP October 2011 / December 2013