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- 'Time Capsule' of the new Wesleyan Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1878
- Albino moles
- Autograph of Rudolph Hess
- Buffalos
- Burial of camel 1872
- Cursing pot
- Fox head and silver cup
- Giant's shoe
- Laurel Wreath and Peace Treaty 1918
- Mermaids
- Model carved from mutton bones
- Napoleon's wallpaper
- Nelson's glass eye
- Pontypool shell grotto
- Recipe to cure the bite of a mad dog
- Roman Uvula Forceps
- Sarah Jacob, 'The Welsh Fasting Girl' (1857-69)
- Scold's bridle
- Shakespeare and Chepstow Castle
- St Jacob's Ladder
- Whiskey the turnspit dog
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