Old fashioned life jacket
Old style life preserver made from white, heavy cotton/linen and bearing text “Salvus life jacket” and “reversed”.
2013.49.1
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2013.51.1
Brass binnacle compass salvaged from the front of a boat that washed up at Sloc a` Cheum, Kennavara, in 1935.
2013.50.1
Aiport Ambulance First Aid box
Large white-painted wooden chest containing First Aid equipment of the ambulance service at Tiree Aerodrome pre-1980. A typed inventory of items present includes: bandages, dressings, gauze, cotton wool, tourniquets, rescue sheets, paracetamol, pins, plasters, drinking glass, scissors and casualty labels.
2013.44.1
Brass rubbing from Kirkapol Church
Length of white linen depicting a broadsword on an ornate background. Painted in brown and black from a brass rubbing made by Fiona MacKinnon, Kirkapol, in Kirkapol Church, ca 2008. Originally stretched over a wooden frame and used as a curtain pelmet.
2013.43.1
Notice in Gaelic and English for Argyll &Bute Council Area Office
Wooden notice board with two blue perspex panels reading (1) “comhairle sgire earraghaidheil is bhoid oifis ionadail”, and (2) “Argyll and Bute District Council Area Office”, presumably from the office at Crossapol.
2013.41.1
Fragment of a stoneware bottle
Fragment of a bottle made of light brown, glazed, pottery/ceramic engraved with “Bournes Improved vitreous stone bottle. EX. Guaranteed not to absorb”. Found in the garden of Pairc na Coille, Balephuil, in 2013.
2013.37.2
Jade/onyx signature blotter
Short-handled roller made of green jade, or onxy, and brass for rolling across blotting paper that has been placed over a signature. It was probably once part of a writing set. Originally on display as a mystery object (roller for screenprinting; smoothing hand-made paper; polish starched shirt collars; Chinese face massager) and identified by the senior photographer of Bonhams Auctioneers, Edinburgh.
2013.37.1
Long-handled, ornate, silver/silver-plated (?) button hook used by ladies to lace up their long ankle boots.
2013.36.8
The Colin MacPhail collection – file binder 3
Collection of original letters, documents, photographs etc. from 1920-1970, found in Colin MacPhail`s byre at Crossapol. Includes: correspondence and articles regarding school, doctors, foster children and personal shopping. For example:
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The Colin MacPhail collection – file folder 2
Collection of original letters, documents, photographs etc. from 1920-1970, found in Colin MacPhail`s byre at Crossapol. Includes: correspondence and articles about his crofts and crofting, drainage, auction marts and the Balephetrish Sheep Stock Club. For example:
