Portable gramophone from around 1930
`Alba` portable gramophone record player, model 505, in a brown leather-clad wooden box with hinged lid and leather carrying handle. Includes spare needle and a gramophone record of `Royal Belfast Hornpipe`.
Package label addressed to MacDonald`s Store in Scainish
Label from a package of stationery materials addressed to MacDonald Stores, Pier Road, Scarinish, from John Menzies, Glasgow. Includes a photocopy.
Lamp from a Post Office cart, ca 1900
Brass paraffin lamp used on the Post Office cart around 1900. Square in shape with covered vent at top. Two clear glass panes, one small circular red pane, and one mirrored side. Would have slotted into a bracket on the cart.
Standing paraffin lamp
Metal paraffin standing lamp with an extra leg at the back to prevent it from toppling over.
Selection of Gaelic and Scottish songs and music on vinyl records from the 1960s and 70s.
Eight 45rpm and ten 33rpm vinyl records of Gaelic, Scottish, classical and popular dance music, pipe music and songs from the 1960s and 1970s, including `My Isle Tiree` by Donald MacRae, `Roghainn Mairi` by Mairi MacArthur (of Tiree descent), `Norman MacLean Sings` (of Tiree descent), and `Inveraray Castle Ceilidh`, plus `Abdication of HRH The Duke of Windsor` recorded by Leslie Mitchell for the Sunday Express.
Selection of gramophone records of Gaelic, Scottish and classical music from the 1930s-1950s.
Nineteen 78rpm gramophone records of Gaelic, popular Scottish and classical music and songs from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Wooden potato masher
Hand-worked, long-handled, wooden potato masher.
Wooden darning mushroom
Hand-worked double-ended wooden darning `mushroom` for repairing holes in woolen garments.
Gentleman`s razor ca 1930
Roll`s razer in a decorative metal/silver container, used around 1930.
Mould for making candles
Metal mould for making six wax candles.
