Portion of a Tiree-Oban ferry ticket (1st class) issued on 30 June 1952.
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Brown envelope stamped at Ruaig Post Office in 1974.
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Top half of a page from The Illustrated London News, Sept. 11, 1886, showing two engraving plates of scenes from Tiree, one looking west across Gott Bay from Ruaig(?), and the other of a tug of war in Scarinish(?) between sailors and marines who came to quell the ‘land agitation‘ on Tiree.
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Envelope and certificate of posting, stamped and issued at Cornaigmore Post Office in 1981.
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Black & white postcard photograph of Gott Bay pier, in around 1930.
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Large, oval, convex, hand-coloured portrait photograph of Rev Hector MacKinnon, Kirkapol (1866-1913). Formerly mounted in a wooden frame but with only the convex glass cover remaining.
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Large iron spanner. Origin and purpose unknown.
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Set of 13 brass numbers with sharp steel teeth used for tattooing identification marks on the ears of livestock during the 1950s and 60s. Kept in a ‘Four Square’ metal cigarette tin bearing a crown. From the house of John Brown, Sliabh, Balephuil.
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Scanned copy of a package label of Duncan MacKinnon & Son, General Merchants, Balephuil. Duncan MacKinnon and later his son, Alasdair, ran a large shop in Balephuil, which sold all manner of household items and petrol. It closed in 1974.
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Black & white photograph of a home-made sand yacht on Gott Bay in 1933. The yacht was made by Jimmy Burt of Glasgow, who is sitting in the yacht with his wife May.
