Collections

Alabaster visiting cards in original box. 'With compliments from Wood & Bruce, Stromness'

Album of watercolours, Studies of Wild Flowers on Hoy, by Isabella Sutherland, 1915, Swartland, Walls. Taught for many years at Kirkwall.

Oil painting: backdrop for the North Ronaldsay sheep display in Victorian Gallery at Stromness Museum. Painted by Stanley Cursiter. 1950s.

Oil painting: SS St Clair. Built in Glasgow for the North of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland Shipping Company Ltd 1868-1937. 'Signed __ Leask '88

Oil painting: Norval. On canvas, unframed, sailing ship.

Book. Blue jardback cover, sailing ship on cover. Name on spine: "Mein Weg nach Scapa Flow" by Günther Prien.

Binoculars, brass. Recovered from the wreck of SMS Cöln in Scapa Flow in 1980, prior to ban of recovery of artefacts.

Palm leaf stump, carved with a face, with tongue sticking out. Found on the Graemsay shore by Ethel Mowat. Possibly Gulf Stream deposit.

Laminated board with engraved image of young woman with long hair showing off a ringed finger, high cliffs and a sailing ship in the background.

St Kilda Mailboat. Red box shaped vessel, used as a mailboat from St Kilda which was floated across the sea to be picked up somewhere on the west coast of Orkney. Found on the Birsay shore.