Tag Archives: basic units

2009.29.1

Tiny calendar 1947

Tiny calendar from 1947, with hand-written note on inside of front cover “With many best wishes to both of you, from Irene”. Colour picture of mallard duck taking flight on front cover. Contains additional information on postal & telegram rates, holidays, times of sunrise and sunset, and moon phases.

2004.214.1

1805 Irish penny found by John Fletcher in Balemartine in November 2004.

1805 Irish penny dug up by John Fletcher in ground around the shed opposite his house in Balemartine in November 2004 (see 2004.202.1 for letter dated 25/11/2004 from Nick Holmes, numismatics curator with the National Museums of Scotland, identifying and dating the coin).

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2004.202.1.1

Scans of an 1805 Irish penny found in Balemartine and a letter from Nick Holmes of the National Museums of Scotland.

Two scans and two enlargements of an 1805 Irish penny dug up by John Fletcher in ground around the shed opposite his house in Balemartine in November 2004. Letter dated 25/11/2004 from Nick Holmes, numismatics curator with the National Museums of Scotland, identifying and dating the coin.

2003.112.1

Notice of the fees charged by Inspectors under the Weights and Measures Act dated 3/5/1892.

Notice of the fees charged by Inspectors under the Weights and Measures Act in the County of Argyll dated 3/5/1892.