Iron curling tongs from the early 1900s. It was heated in the fire or oven before being applied to the hair.
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Dates: 1940s
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Hand counter-sink tool from Vaul boat-builders in the 1930s. Wooden handle.
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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.
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Two white ceramic ink wells from Ruaig School. Designed to be dropped into purpose-made holes in the pupils’ desks.
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Softback book ‘Tramp Steamers at War’ by George Gunn, 1999, recalling his days at sea as a young seaman during 1941-1945. He served on the steam ship ‘Baron Forbes’, under the command of “the legendary” Captain Lachlan MacPhail, Tiree (pp 81-86).
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Printed eulogy read out at the funeral of Angus Munn, Heanish (1927-2015), written by his daughter.
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Souvenir teaspoon from Mona MacDonald’s shop in Scarinish in the 1930s. Made of Sheffield bilchrome. Red and blue enamel Tiree Association crest on the end of the handle.
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Sliver-plated, shoe horn and shoe lace hook set belonging to Maggie MacDonald, Scarinish, in the 1930s.
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Scanned copy of a newspaper eulogy of Dr Catherine Brown (1900 – c.1985) titled ‘The doctor whose name lives on in Agyll school annals’ from (presumably) the Oban Times. Although Catherine was born in Bunessan, Mull, her Baptist minister father Alexander Brown, was originally from Mannal, Tiree, and she was “as much at home too in the Isle of Tiree”.
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Photocopy of a tri-fold brochure from an exhibition by the Oban Art Society of works by Duncan MacGregor Whyte (1866-1953) and his wife, Mary Bernard (1870-1946), in St. Columba’s Church, Oban in September 1984. Includes biographies and lists of named works. The MacG Whytes built The Studio in Balephuil.