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Engraving: hand tinted 'Groenland - ais suprenant un Phoque' (Inuit with spear hunting a seal)

Tea caddy spoon: EPNS, with copper and enamel crest 'HMS NELSON'

Beaver pelt mounted on red felt.

Builder's half hull model of the last schooner to be built at Stangers Yard, Ness, Stromness.

Model Barquentine: small, no name, in case.

Model schooner: 'Lillie' on base with modellled sea. Built by Mr W Smith, 1872.

Model iron sailing ship 'City of Florence', built on the Clyde by Charles Connel for the Indian tea trade of George Smith and Sons in 1867. Master Capt. W. S. Leask of Coldomo in Stenness.

Waterline model of 'S. S. Express' built 1869 by Readhead and Softley for George Robertson when he won the Pentland Firth contract. 1/2 ship model.

Full Hull model of the paddle steamer "Royal Mail" owned and built by John Stanger of Ness, Stromness for the new Pentland Firth route in 1856, sold in 1868 and wrecked in 1869.

Builder's 1/2 model. 'King Bleddyn': in case, with mirror backing. Built for the King Line by Palmers.