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Oil painting: on board. Pole Star III by John Ritch, carpenter on board.
ID: A653
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Embroidery: panel of four dogs in a garden. Framed. Signed 'I. S.' 1952.
ID: A654
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Mangle: 'D. C. Towers, Stromness' cast on the body.
ID: A655
Bronze medal of 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition.
ID: A656
Watercolour painting of Stromness from the Brae of Clouston.
ID: A657

Halkett cloth boat owned by Dr John Rae. Layers of cotton fabric and rubber, copper alloy air valves, canvas fender filled with cork.

ID: A658
Portrait of Dr John Rae (1813 - 1893). Oil on canvas, Portrait inset into an oval shows Rae in old age. Painted by Joseph Sydney Willlis Hodges (1888 - 1900)
ID: A659
Watercolour of the trading schooner 'Maggie' of Stromness, owned by J A Shearer and Son.
ID: A660

Traditionally build vernacular strawbacked chair with unusual carved heart shaped finials at the top uprights of the chair and the arms and supporting stiles are ornamentally carved.

ID: A661

High backed decorative arm chair with footrest. Bone inlay decoration on the top panel of the back of the chair and down the sides.

ID: A662