Black & white photograph of L-R: ‘Nanag’, Lachlan Campbell, Netta & baby, at the back of Corrairigh, Cornaigbeg, in the 1930s. Nanag is using a wash board and pail, while Lachlan in mending shoes on a cobbler’s last.
2016.30.5
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2016.23.1
Pen-knife style cutlery set of knife, fork and spoon, issued to Royal Navy sailors during the First World War.
2015.60.1
Pair of small, hand-made, wooden butter pats, used for making butter on the croft.
2015.59.2
Collection of 73 cigarette cards from the 1930s. Includes samples from four different series: Our King and Queen, RAF Badges, Household Hints, Dogs. Found in ‘Four Winds’, Kilmoluaig.
2015.40.5
Cardboard box (‘spiced beef and tongue’) containing two lumps of hardened yellowish-brown wax found in Mannal House. Probably whale blubber, which would have had various domestic and croft uses, e.g. preservation of leather harness.
2015.33.1
Price’s Child’s night lights, 1960s. Eight small candles (two partly used) in original cardboard box. Resembling tea-lights, they were “to burn in a saucer with water”.
2015.17.1
Electric neck-tie iron made by Ser-Val Products Corporation, Newark, New Jersey, ca 1930. From the estate of Angus MacLean, The Coolins, Scarinish.
2015.16.1
Wilkinson’s hand razor in its chrome-plated/EPNS/stainless steel box, manufactured around 1950. Found in ‘Four Winds’, Kilmoluaig in 2015.
2014.112.1
Brass plaque `Home Sweet Home`
Oval brass plaque or hot-plate ornately carved to read `Home Sweet Home`. Found on Balevullin beach by donor.
2014.94.2
Portable sewing machine, ca 1900
Ornate, pearled, hand-operated, `Medium` sewing machine in an ornate wooden carrying case, made in Glasgow by Kimball & Morton between 1887 and 1910. Includes cotton thread manufactured by J&P Coats, Paisley. Belonged to Maggie Robertson. From the belongings of Angus MacLean, Scarinish.
