In pictures: Museum stores

A tooth recovered from a sperm whale that beached near Inverness is among the unusual items kept at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery

An ear of another whale is also held in the museum's stores

A season ticket for the Inverness Thistle Football Club from the early 1900s

An Egyptian figurine with hieroglyphs thought to have been purchased originally as a souvenir

A well loved, and worn, toy rabbit from the 1920s

A mineral water bottle for James Forrest & Co, Inverness. It is called a Codd bottle after its inventor Hiram Codd who patented it in 1872

A Bakelite electric hot water bottle

A depiction of the Battle of Culloden painted on a piece of linoleum flooring

Metal savings boxes for coins from the 1920s

A Highland-style, 17th Century brass ring brooch

A lump of bog butter, a food usually made of dairy and meat, and believed to have been stored by ancient Scots in peat bogs

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