The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen

Fleshers of Aberdeen, Mortcloth

Fleshers Mortcloth

In 1901 a deputation from the Operative Butchers Mortcloth fund presented this mortcloth to the Aberdeen Fleshers Incorporation for safe keeping.
The Fleshers coat of arms was then emblazoned on the Mortcloth and it was used by both parties to drape the coffin at funerals.

(Image by Graeme Watson courtesy to use on this website, Seven Trades of Aberdeen, Trinty Hall.)

Andrew Watson of Aberdeen, Deacons Chair

Andrew Watson of Aberdeen, Deacons Chair

‘The Chair of Andrew Watson is most elaborate. The arms of his trade are carved and coloured on the upper part of the back, and on the centre one the arms of the Watson family (an oak tree eradicated on base, surmounted by a fess, charged with crescent between two mullets).’ – Bain’s Guilds of Aberdeen, pp. 176-7.

(Image by Graeme Watson courtesy to use on this website, Seven Trades of Aberdeen, Trinty Hall.)