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Burns Supper and Dance card. Stromness Comedy Players, The Town Hall, Stromness on Monday, 28th January 1946. Cream card with a drawing of Robbie Burns on the front.
ID: 2005.005
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Oil painting on board of the Norwegian whaler M V Norholmen by amateur artist Nelson White. It shows the boat washed up on the shore at Stromness.
ID: 2005.006

Metal plate from the telegraph of ship. It was washed up on the shore at Graemsay. Believed to be from the M V Norholmen.

ID: 2005.007
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Small bowl, Balticware, otherwise known as Khokloma Ware. This type was commonly bartered for food from orkney farmers by Baltic fishermen in the 19th Centruy.
ID: 2005.008

Metal cast of an old man's head taken from the original which was attached to the bulk head in the Admirals cabin aboard the SMS Hindenburg.

ID: 2005.009
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Example of long-handled pole-club from the Cook Islands. Long pole handle with paddle shaped head. Geometrical decoration and curving serrated edges.
ID: 2005.010
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Map
Ordnance survey map of Kirkwall and St Ola.
ID: 2005.011.01
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Map
Ordnance survey map of Stromness Parish.
ID: 2005.011.02
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Map
Ordnance survey map of West Mainland including Kirkwall. Supplied for the use of Stromness Higher Grade School.
ID: 2005.011.03
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Solid brass table lamp without lampshade and a white ceramic cup for the bulb to go into.
ID: 2005.012