. Scottish notes and queries. ters was, aboutseven years ago, lying in front of Mrs White-crosss house, near the Castle. J. A. Old Deer Stocking —In the re-cent excavations at (.allow lulls for the new gas-ometer to be elected there, the brass stamp, animpression of which is given below, was disco-vered. A difficulty presented itself at first as tothe probable use to which the stamp haul beenput, but it now seems clear that it is the Stock-ing Stamp used at one time for Old were, as is well known, a large partof Aberdeen trade during the early part of thelast century, and
. Scottish notes and queries. ters was, aboutseven years ago, lying in front of Mrs White-crosss house, near the Castle. J. A. Old Deer Stocking —In the re-cent excavations at (.allow lulls for the new gas-ometer to be elected there, the brass stamp, animpression of which is given below, was disco-vered. A difficulty presented itself at first as tothe probable use to which the stamp haul beenput, but it now seems clear that it is the Stock-ing Stamp used at one time for Old were, as is well known, a large partof Aberdeen trade during the early part of thelast century, and to prevent bad workmanship,and to serve as a ready means of identification,the Dean of Guild Court of Aberdeen, in 1748,issued stamps to a number of districts in thecounty, including Old Deer. The stamp dugout at Gallowhills may in all probability be thatissued in [748 to mark the work of the knittersin Old Deer. ALEX M. MUNRO. 1 lA. :i which thentique thanabove thet am carlsof order of C. M. areMarischal, stoneh thelarate. jtoralion of Dunblane Cathedral, with a sketc>fits structural history from its foundation. probably signiMorton, ot M;of arms earvi>. Glasgow: William Hodge &Co. 1093. [Pp. 3-3, 7>2 x 5 in.]THIS constitutes the Fourth volume of the ad-mirable Abbotsford Scries of the Scottish Poetsby the same editor, and w ill probably eclipse itspredecessors in popularity, inasmuch as thesubject possesses a wider interest. To the un-initiated few tasks appear more easy than theediting a book of ballads, but to bring within thecompass of such .1 book«as this the aristocracy >st ( ii ua< teristic ami perfect1 criti< a! acumen and a liter-ninon than is supposscottishnotesque17unse
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