Spokeshave tool from the workshop of Vaul boatbuilders. Very similar to 2018.77.1
2018.77.2
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Dates: 1930s
2018.77.1
Bennet B. Burley spokeshave made at Barrowfield Works in Glasgow in 1881-1936. From the workshop of Vaul boatbuilders.
2018.76.3
Steel 7″ gimlet with wooden handle, for boring holes into wood. Used by Vaul boatbuilders.
2018.76.1
Folding ruler made of wood and brass by John Rabone & Sons, Birmingham, 1877-1937.
2018.75.4
Iron curling tongs from the early 1900s. It was heated in the fire or oven before being applied to the hair.
2018.75.1
Hand counter-sink tool from Vaul boat-builders in the 1930s. Wooden handle.
2018.74.1
Black-painted, iron balance beam scales from the Thatched House Museum at Sandaig. The museum closed in 2010 and many of its display items were passed on to An Iodhlann.
2018.70.1
Softback book ‘Men Only’, November 1939, belonging to MacArthur, Caoles. The Men Only series of pocket magazines began in 1935, with the aim of bringing “bright articles on current male topics” to men. The Nov. 1939 edition features many war and military related topics.
2018.68.2
White cotton lace-bordered handkerchief made by Katie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol in around 1920.
2018.68.1
Examples of lacework made by Katie MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, in around 1910.