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Potato gun toy

Child`s `potato gun` or Gunna-staile, made with the base of a swan’s feather and a wooden plunger. Presented to Alan Boyd around 1985 by Hugh MacLean, Barrapol. Flora MacArthur, Moss, remembers her father making them for Donald and Duncan.

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Potato gun toy

Many children`s toys were home-made like this Gunna-staile / potato gun made in Barrapol from a piece of plastic tube and a carved wooden plunger.

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