Section of a large hand-enhanced portrait photograph of four female members of the Lamont/MacKenzie family of Harbour, Caoles, in around the late 1800s. The youngest may be Mary Ann Stewart (nee Lamont).
Section of composite sepia photograph of three studio photographs of members of the Lamont/MacKenzie family of Harbour, Caoles, in around 1900.
Brass bed-warmer which would have been filled with heated stones.
| Tags: domestic tools | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Object Types: artefact | Rounded wooden core for weaving a ‘monkey’s fist’ – the rope ball at the end of a ship’s throwing line. Used by Vaul boat-builders.
| Tags: boat-building , tools , vaul | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Townships: vaul | | Object Types: artefact | Collection of 27 brass sail eyelets of various sizes, threaded onto a rope. From the workshop of Vaul boat-builders.
| Tags: boat-building , vaul | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Townships: vaul | | Object Types: artefact | Ardennes-Corticule Belgian Blue whetstone from the workshop of the Vaul boat-builders.
| Tags: boat-building , tools , vaul | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Townships: vaul | | Object Types: artefact | Sharpening stone in its wooden case used by Vaul boat-builders around 1850-1950.
| Tags: boat-building , tools , vaul | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Townships: vaul | | Object Types: artefact | Large, heavy caulking mallet from the workshop of the Vaul boat-builders around 1850-1950.
Tiree in 100 Objects – 84 – Caulking mallet
The History of Tiree in 100 Objects
| Tags: boat-building , tools , vaul | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Townships: vaul | | Object Types: artefact | Two-handled wood and steel drawknife used by the Vaul boat-builders around 1850-1950.
| Tags: boat-building , tools , vaul | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Townships: vaul | | Object Types: artefact | 5/16″ wood and steel moulding plane with ‘H MACKINNON’ stamped on the side. H MacKinnon was a joiner from Vaul.
| Tags: carpenters , joiners , tools , vaul | | Dates: 1850s , 1860s , 1870s , 1880s , 1890s , 1900s , 1910s , 1920s , 1930s , 1940s , 1950s | | Townships: vaul | | Object Types: artefact |