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Cannon ball found by donnor on Breckness beach.

Heater, lamp. Brass and aluminium, in the form of a miner's lamp, but larger, with five wicks. "Premier, Leeds. No. 10".

Heater, Lamp. Brass and Iron, "The Premier lamp and Eng. Co. Ltd. Leeds. No 11". Lamp believed to have been used in the engineer rooms of the first motor lifeboats in the early 20th century.

Letters and receipts concerning men's papers and periodicals in the Stromness Newsroom, 1870s.

Certificate - Mariner's Register Ticket No 271,289 "Andrew Flett, Orphir, born 14 July 1799. Date of cert. 14.7.1845.

Certificate - Mariner's Register Ticket No 274,966 "Peter Isbister, Holm, Orkney". Date 23 July 1845.

Bulb and electric fitting. "Kaiserliche Marine" etched on glass. Bulb on porcelain fitting. There is a small hole at tip of bulb glass.

Certificate, discharge: three certificates of discharge of Orkney seaman William Folster: SWIFT, Kirkwall 1864: 'U' Kingdom 1863: SWIFT, Kirkwall 1863.

Print, lithographic: Victorian print of the rescue of passengers and crew from a wrecked steamship by a rowed Lifeboat. "WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST". Framed.

Book: "chinese scenes and people" by Jane R. Edkins ... Also a memoir by her father, the Rev. William Stobbs, Stromness. 1863. [Rev. Stobbs was first secretary of Stromnes Museum]