Curved metal blade with a serrated edge attached to a short, cylindrical wooden handle; handle has four encircling grooves.

Pink damask robe with short standing collar, wide sleeves, side slits and side opening with frog closures and metal buttons. The damask is woven containing floral, circle and butterfly motifs. The collar, side opening and hem have borders with crane, bat, butterfly and floral motifs in green, purple and white on blue ground with floral and orange trim. The sleeves have borders with birds in a floral scene on green ground. The inside is unlined.

Coin, round, with a four-sided hole at the centre, a rim around the outer edge and a centre hole. The obverse has four characters, and the reverse has two characters. Xianfeng tongbao (top-bottom-right-left) in formal style Chinese characters on obverse; boo jyi left-right (mintmark) in Manchu on reverse. Rims not smoothed; rim pits.

Rounded, dark brown clay pot with a small, flat base and a small, round opening; pot tapers towards bottom and top. Raised lip around opening. Four small decorative elements spaced around the opening.

Length of bamboo with a small , tube-like piece protruding at a forty-five degree angle from the centre.

Roughly rectangular piece of dark brown wood with a straight, short handle protruding from one end; carved from a single piece of wood. A curvilinear shape with scalloped edges is carved into the top of the rectangular section of wood; floral motifs are carved on the bottom of the shape.

Length of a halved bamboo stalk; two notches carved into both ends.

Roughly cylindrical paper lantern; slight depression around the centre and raised circular openings at either end. Thin, ecru-coloured paper laid over a crisscrossing, latticework of thin pieces of bamboo.

A scroll painting of an old man wearing a traditional scholar robe, hat, and carrying a bamboo cane. Impression of carved mark on bottom suggests original may be of Ch'ien Lung Reign (1736-1795). The painting has a cream-coloured border of patterned fabric.

Tool with leaf-shaped iron blade, the end of which is bent upwards and then wrapped around a short, round handle. The part attached to the handle is partially broken and rusty.