Black & white photograph of RAF serviceman Alan George French who served with 518 Squadron on Tiree during WWII.
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Dates: 1930s
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Black & white portrait photograph of RAF serviceman Alan George French who served with 518 Squadron on Tiree during WWII.
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‘Whitecross’ round stainless steel pipe cover and metal pipe cleaning kit in a leather pouch.
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Hardback book ‘The Modern Illustrated Dictionary’, published by the Daily Express, London in 1931. The dictionary is unusual in that it is “profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome” and includes “glossaries of technical and sporting terms”, plus “synonyms and antonyms, contractions and abbreviations, foreign words, phrases, and quotations, events of importance in English history, famous characters in poetry and prose, and a very comprehensive list of alternative words in use in crosswords”.
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Traditional flatfish net made of a circular wooden frame, strung with rope, with a central disc of brown leather (repaired using modern fishing line).
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Black & white photo postcard of a long-horned cow in front of a black-roofed house, with the caption ‘A Native of Tiree’. On the reverse is a pencilled note to ‘Margaret, from Mummy’. This photo is the central image of another postcard made up of several images.
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Black & white photo postcard of the ruined chapel at Kilkenneth, sold by D & H MacArthur, The Store, Scarinish.
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Black & white photo postcard of Travee, Balephuil, in around 1912. The postcard is addressed to Rev Archibald MacDonald, Islay (formerly Balephuil), and was produced by J A McNeill, Post Office, Tiree.
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Black & white photo postcard of the lighthouse keepers’ cottages and signalling tower at Hynish in around the early 1900s.
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Simple white clay pipe adorned with three metal bands marked ‘ECB London’, ‘MS’ and ‘U’, and ‘EP’, which probably came from other pipes.
Dr D A Higgins of the Society for Pipe Research, told us that it is a typical Scottish clay pipe of late C19th or early C20th date. Thick, chunky pipes like this were favoured in Scotland and made by many different manufacturers. Those from the larger firms often had a pattern number on the left hand side of the stem [this one does not].
The metal bands are nothing to do with the pipe, but could well have come from others. Briar pipes typically had a metal band like these to join the wooden bowl with a vulcanite stem. Some, more expensive, clays with stems of vulcanite or other materials also had a metal band. The diamond-shaped band could have come from a ‘Bulldog’ pattern of pipe, which had a diamond-shaped stem section. These bands would have been made since the mid C19th as composite pipes only really came into circulation after around 1850.