Old fashioned life jacket
Old style life preserver made from white, heavy cotton/linen and bearing text “Salvus life jacket” and “reversed”.
2013.49.1
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Object Type: artefact
2013.50.1
Aiport Ambulance First Aid box
Large white-painted wooden chest containing First Aid equipment of the ambulance service at Tiree Aerodrome pre-1980. A typed inventory of items present includes: bandages, dressings, gauze, cotton wool, tourniquets, rescue sheets, paracetamol, pins, plasters, drinking glass, scissors and casualty labels.
2013.51.1
Brass binnacle compass salvaged from the front of a boat that washed up at Sloc a` Cheum, Kennavara, in 1935.
2013.48.1
Aldis signalling lamp from WWII
`Aldis` signalling lamp in metal and canvas carrying box. Owned by Ian Atkin`s (Balephuil) father during WWII when he was stationed at RAF Tiree. Used to signal the SS Laristan which foundered on rocks behind Ben Hough during WWII. Includes bulb, morse-code switch, colour filters and aperture adjusters.
2013.44.1
Brass rubbing from Kirkapol Church
Length of white linen depicting a broadsword on an ornate background. Painted in brown and black from a brass rubbing made by Fiona MacKinnon, Kirkapol, in Kirkapol Church, ca 2008. Originally stretched over a wooden frame and used as a curtain pelmet.
2013.45.1
Collection of animal bones, pottery shards and assorted objects from Kirkapol Chapel
Collection of assorted animal bones, teeth & horn (42), pottery shards (23), metal fixings (16), broken glass (8), and fragments of ceramic “In Loving Memory” dedication (3), found during survey/excavation/restoration of the old kirk at Kirkapol chapels in 2002. The bones and shards were found on wall plates.
2013.43.1
Notice in Gaelic and English for Argyll &Bute Council Area Office
Wooden notice board with two blue perspex panels reading (1) “comhairle sgire earraghaidheil is bhoid oifis ionadail”, and (2) “Argyll and Bute District Council Area Office”, presumably from the office at Crossapol.
2013.41.1
Fragment of a stoneware bottle
Fragment of a bottle made of light brown, glazed, pottery/ceramic engraved with “Bournes Improved vitreous stone bottle. EX. Guaranteed not to absorb”. Found in the garden of Pairc na Coille, Balephuil, in 2013.
2013.37.1
Long-handled, ornate, silver/silver-plated (?) button hook used by ladies to lace up their long ankle boots.
2013.37.2
Jade/onyx signature blotter
Short-handled roller made of green jade, or onxy, and brass for rolling across blotting paper that has been placed over a signature. It was probably once part of a writing set. Originally on display as a mystery object (roller for screenprinting; smoothing hand-made paper; polish starched shirt collars; Chinese face massager) and identified by the senior photographer of Bonhams Auctioneers, Edinburgh.
