Some of my favorite items from the National Museum of Scotland (although none of these are on t
Some of my favorite items from the National Museum of Scotland (although none of these are on the Early People floor, which is indisputably the best part of the museum).the lock on the Darien chesta rubber skeleton from Mexico City, which presumably does a terrifying leap when you squeeze that bulban indigenous Australian depiction of Nararrkon, the Lightning Mana close up of a mummy’s linen wrappingan insurance company firemark (ie, a plate attached to a buillding to show that it was insured)– there’s a whole collection of these and they’re all this greata clockwork-driven phonograph from Germanya resin bird toya ceramic dish that is far too crammed with creatures to possibly hold anything elsepattern cards for an automated jacquard looman extremely ominous plate -- source link