Three ink stamps from MacDonald`s Shop, Scarinish
Three wood and rubber ink stamps bearing the name `M MacDonald, Pier Road, Scarinish, Isle of Tiree`, used in MacDonald`s shop in Scarinish.
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Object Type: artefact
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Stoneware hot water bottle
`Pige` stoneware hot water bottle with screw stopper.
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Two lumps of coal said to have come from the steam ship SS Vivo, which was wrecked off Balevullin in 1890.
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Royal wedding commemorative mug, 1981
Stoneware commemorative mug sold in Mona MacDonald`s shop in Scarinish. The mug celebrates the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer on 29th July 1981.
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Two goffering irons
One small and one medium sized goffering irons used for pressing pleats into fabric. These would have been used in conjunction with appropriately sized pokers which would have first been heated in the fire before being inserted into the irons to heat them.
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Rope twister from Balemartine
Hand-made iron and wood rope twister / corra shùgan used for twisting straw into rope. Includes a hand-written note by John Morton Boyd: “Given to me by Mrs Chrissie MacArthur, Balemartine, and formerly owned by the late John MacNeill.”
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Iron stand
Decorative, metal stand for resting a hot iron during ironing.
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Wood and crocodile skin sea chest from Australia
Sea chest made of wood and crocodile skin owned by Dugald MacKinnon, Heanish (Dughall an Oir, b.1840), who brought it back from Australia.
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Collection of items from an Iron Age or Medieval midden at Balevullin
Cardboard box of 17 artefact bags containing a collection of around 600 pieces of pottery sherds, flints, iron slag, bog iron and iron scrap from the remains of an Iron Age or Medieval midden situated in a blown-out dune on Balevullin machair, 100m north of the road cattlegrid between Kilmoluaig and Balevullin (Baca Charachan). Returned to donor from the Treasure Trove department at the National Museum in Edinburgh.
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Enamel jug
Large enamel jug painted white on the outside and black on the inside.
