Home-made wood & brass cribbage board or cròthan, a popular game on board ships. Probably made by Vaul boat-builders.
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The Scots Magazine, June 1965, with an article about Tiree and its people ‘Island of Prosperous Crofters’ by Campbell K Finlay. Includes photographs of Scarinish Harbour: A D Brown, Tobermory (merchant to Tiree); Margaret Brown, Vaul; Malcolm M MacLean, Salum; A H MacPhail, Clachan; A G H Bruton, Lodge Hotel; Travee; coastal cliffs; croft house, Scarinish; Parkhouse, Balephetrish; L J MacFadyen, Kenovay; J L MacInnes, Salum; W MacPhee, gamekeeper; Balephetrish road. Also mentioned in text: Walter Hume, the Reef & An Fhaodhail, primary schools, boarded-out children, island house, sheep, bulb-growing, cottars, income, crofters’ war, snipe shooting, tourism, fishing.
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Home-made metal tool to connect metal brake lines, made by Donald Brown, Vaul.
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Home-made metal tool to clean carbon from engine intake and exhaust valves, made by Donald Brown, Vaul.
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Spokeshave tool from the workshop of Vaul boatbuilders. Very similar to 2018.77.1
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Bennet B. Burley spokeshave made at Barrowfield Works in Glasgow in 1881-1936. From the workshop of Vaul boatbuilders.
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Steel 7″ gimlet with wooden handle, for boring holes into wood. Used by Vaul boatbuilders.
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Home-made hardwood bevel gauge stamped with ‘C Campbell’.
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Folding ruler made of wood and brass by John Rabone & Sons, Birmingham, 1877-1937.
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Iron curling tongs from the early 1900s. It was heated in the fire or oven before being applied to the hair.
