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122 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Part 11. divisions, while on the centre moulding is incised the name Duncane, with the
Chap. II.
initials C(hirurgcou) '\V(illi;Lm) Duncan, the arms of the Duncans of Lundie,
together with the name " Weddcrburiie " the initials C(athcriue) W(edderbum),
the arms of Wedderburn of Kingennic, and the date 1600. The letters S.J.S. also
appear on the casket, and probably refers to Sir James Scrymgeourof Dudhope, who
•was provost of Dundee 1593— 1G09.'
CATHAKIXE WEDDERBURN'S CASKET.
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The curio was unearthed by Mr. G. B. Simpson, a collector, of Dundee, in 1888, and was exhibited to
the Society of .Scottish Antiiiuaries in M.arch of that year, when a description of it was read by
Mr. A. H. ^Millar, F.S A. Scot. An account of it, with tlie above illustration, was printed in the
Dundee Advertiser of 1-7 JIarch 1 883, in which Katherine Wedderburn was wrongly described as a sisU-r
of Sir Alexander Wedderburn of Blackness. The original use of the box seems to have puzzled the
antiquarians. Some suggest that it was a cash box, others a " pomanda box," and others that it wa.^
part of a sun-di;xl. It is now in the possession of Mrs. Anstruther (Miss Jlorison Duncan) of
Uftughton, CO. Fife.