Spokeshave tool from the workshop of Vaul boatbuilders. Very similar to 2018.77.1
2018.77.2
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Dates: 1950s
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.
2018.75.2
Schrader spark plug tyre pump from the 1950s. To operate, it was screwed into the spark plug mounting of the engine, and, when the engine was turned on, blew an air/fuel mixture into the tyre.
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.
2018.67.1
Brass belt buckle from a Boys Brigade uniform, ca 1950s.
2018.61.1
Printed eulogy read out at the funeral of Angus Munn, Heanish (1927-2015), written by his daughter.
2018.57.1
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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