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Set, tools

Other name(s): 
set
Collection ID: 
1997.051
Collection: 
Social history

Ship-in-a-bottle maker's tool set. Twelve lengths of wire made into spatulas, brushes and knife for modelling in bottle, made and used by Isaac Wilson, Sunnybrae, Stromness, a ship's carpenter on the Port Line in the 1920s/30s. Also 4 tins of Humbol enamel paint, scraps of wood and sandpaper and an unfinished model boat: contained in a wooden tray.